{"id":2660,"date":"2011-07-04T11:00:46","date_gmt":"2011-07-04T01:30:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/?p=2660"},"modified":"2011-07-04T11:00:46","modified_gmt":"2011-07-04T01:30:46","slug":"luke-saville-south-australias-wimbledon-champion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/news\/2011\/07\/04\/luke-saville-south-australias-wimbledon-champion","title":{"rendered":"South Australia&#8217;s Wimbledon Champion."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2668\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/?attachment_id=2668\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>South Australia is today celebrating the success of South Australia&#8217;s Wimbledon 2011 Boys&#8217; singles Champion, Luke Saville.<\/p>\n<p>The news has travelled quickly that 17-year old Saville\u00a0defeated Britain\u2019s Liam Broady 2-6 6-4 6-2 on a packed court one at Wimbledon.<\/p>\n<p>Following his performance, Saville believes he is on track to be a top ten player one day.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>I feel like at the Australian (Open) and now here, that I am starting to play some unbelievable tennis again,\u201d<\/em> Saville said.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI feel if I can stay injury-free and play enough futures events and maybe challengers that my ranking will take care of itself as I am playing some great tennis.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Luke has thanked everyone for their support via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/search.php?q=luke%20saville&amp;init=quick&amp;tas=0.8437800544501393&amp;ref=ts#!\/pages\/Luke-Saville-On-Tour-2011\/159048920810850\" target=\"_blank\">Luke Saville on Tour 2011 facebook page <\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Hi everyone, Luke here now. I cannot possibly thank everyone enough for the support I have received this week. It has been an amazing experience playing at Wimbledon this year and to win the boys title is just a dream come true. Thanks again everyone back in Australia who have congratulated me and I appreciate every single one. Thanks again!&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Alistair MacDonald, Tennis SA CEO said, <em>\u201cLuke is a fantastic young man who has always struck me as such a professional and mature person.\u00a0 His efforts over the past 12 months are inspirational and we Like forward to seeing Luke grow as a tennis player and a person over this career\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Check out the spread in\u00a0today&#8217;s Advertiser<\/strong><\/p>\n<div><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2667\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/?attachment_id=2667\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-includes\/js\/tinymce\/plugins\/wpgallery\/img\/t.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI believe I can be a top ten player one day.\u201d Luke Saville<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5915,"featured_media":2676,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5915"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2660\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}