{"id":30009,"date":"2023-10-20T02:20:10","date_gmt":"2023-10-19T15:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/?p=30009"},"modified":"2023-10-20T02:20:10","modified_gmt":"2023-10-19T15:50:10","slug":"defending-champion-birrell-to-headline-city-of-playford-tennis-international-womens-field","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/news\/2023\/10\/20\/defending-champion-birrell-to-headline-city-of-playford-tennis-international-womens-field","title":{"rendered":"Defending champion Birrell to headline City of Playford Tennis International women\u2019s field"},"content":{"rendered":"

Defending champion\u00a0Kimberly Birrell<\/strong> (Gold Coast, Qld) will lead the women\u2019s field at the\u00a0City of Playford Tennis International<\/strong>\u00a0at the Playford Tennis Centre from Sunday 22 to Sunday 29 October 2023.<\/p>\n

She will be joined by Australian top 10 players including Astra Sharma\u00a0<\/strong>(WA),\u00a0Priscilla Hon\u00a0<\/strong>(Qld),\u00a0Jaimee Fourlis\u00a0<\/strong>(Vic)\u00a0and\u00a0Seone Mendez\u00a0<\/strong>(NSW), as well as South Australia\u2019s\u00a0Petra Hule<\/strong>\u00a0who reached a career high ranking of 311 last month.<\/p>\n

The 18 direct acceptances including four players from inside the world\u2019s top 100 will be joined by four wildcards and six qualifiers, with main draw matches beginning on Tuesday 24 October.<\/p>\n

City of Playford Tennis International
\n<\/strong>Player acceptance list as at 20 October 2023
\n<\/strong>Ranking date: 5 October 2023<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
WTA rank <\/strong><\/td>\nFirst name<\/strong><\/td>\nLast name<\/strong><\/td>\nNationality<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
104<\/td>\nKimberly<\/td>\nBirrell<\/td>\nAUS<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
157<\/td>\nMoyuka<\/td>\nUchijima<\/td>\nJPN<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
161<\/td>\nAstra<\/td>\nSharma<\/td>\nAUS<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
164<\/td>\nSujeong<\/td>\nJang<\/td>\nKOR<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
184<\/td>\nPriscilla<\/td>\nHon<\/td>\nAUS<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
206<\/td>\nJaimee<\/td>\nFourlis<\/td>\nAUS<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
223<\/td>\nYeXin<\/td>\nMa<\/td>\nCHN<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
240<\/td>\nEudice<\/td>\nChong<\/td>\nHKG<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
248<\/td>\nSeone<\/td>\nMendez<\/td>\nAUS<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
250<\/td>\nDestanee<\/td>\nAiava<\/td>\nAUS<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
251<\/td>\nLanlana<\/td>\nTararudee<\/td>\nTHA<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
253<\/td>\nSakura<\/td>\nHosogi<\/td>\nJPN<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
255<\/td>\nMaddison<\/td>\nInglis<\/td>\nAUS<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
315<\/td>\nPetra<\/td>\nHule<\/td>\nAUS<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
317<\/td>\nTaylah<\/td>\nPreston<\/td>\nAUS<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
333<\/td>\nJoanna<\/td>\nGarland<\/td>\nTPE<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
347<\/td>\nNatsumi<\/td>\nKawaguchi<\/td>\nJPN<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
350<\/td>\nKyoka<\/td>\nOkamura<\/td>\nJPN<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Please note: list is subject to change<\/em><\/p>\n

The City of Playford Tennis International is part of the Australian Pro Tour, a series of professional tennis events held throughout the year to bridge upcoming players with the ATP\/WTA Tour, providing an opportunity to earn significant world ranking points.<\/p>\n

For more information about the Australian Pro Tour, Tennis Australia or the players visit\u00a0www.tennis.com.au\/protour<\/a>. For more information on the ATP Challenger Tour go to\u00a0www.atptour.com<\/a>\u00a0or for more information on the ITF World Tennis Tour visit\u00a0www.itftennis.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Defending champion\u00a0Kimberly Birrell (Gold Coast, Qld) will lead the women\u2019s field at the\u00a0City of Playford Tennis International\u00a0at the Playford Tennis Centre from Sunday 22 to Sunday 29 October 2023. She will be joined by Australian top 10 players including Astra Sharma\u00a0(WA),\u00a0Priscilla Hon\u00a0(Qld),\u00a0Jaimee Fourlis\u00a0(Vic)\u00a0and\u00a0Seone Mendez\u00a0(NSW), as well as South Australia\u2019s\u00a0Petra Hule\u00a0who reached a career high ranking […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5736,"featured_media":30015,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30009","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\/30009","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\/5736"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30009\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}