{"id":30088,"date":"2023-10-23T08:55:34","date_gmt":"2023-10-22T22:25:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/?p=30088"},"modified":"2023-10-23T08:55:34","modified_gmt":"2023-10-22T22:25:34","slug":"li-tu-progresses-to-second-round-at-city-of-playford-tennis-international","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/news\/2023\/10\/23\/li-tu-progresses-to-second-round-at-city-of-playford-tennis-international","title":{"rendered":"Li Tu progresses to second round at City of Playford Tennis International"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Matches have come to an end on Day 2 at the <strong>City of Playford Tennis International<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>South Australia\u2019s <strong>Li Tu<\/strong> defeated wildcard recipient <strong>Zack Viiala<\/strong> (WA) 7-5 6-2 to progress to the second round of the main draw, where he will be joined by 2022 finalist <strong>Rio Noguchi <\/strong>(FRA) after he defeated <strong>Arthur Weber<\/strong> (JPN).<\/p>\n<p>In qualifying action, top seed <strong>Talia Gibson<\/strong> (WA) has progressed to the main draw and will be joined by fellow Australian, 15-year-old <strong>Emerson Jones<\/strong> (Qld) after she defeated third seed <strong>Hiroko Kuwata <\/strong>(JPN). On the men\u2019s side, Australians <strong>Pavle Marinkov<\/strong> (NSW), <strong>Jayden Court<\/strong> (Qld) and <strong>Jacob Bradshaw<\/strong> (Qld) have all moved through to the main draw.<\/p>\n<p>Day 3 will see men\u2019s top seed, South Australia\u2019s <strong>Thanasi Kokkinakis <\/strong>make his City of Playford Tennis International debut in the third match on Centre Court against qualifier <strong>Yusuke Takahashi<\/strong> (JPN). Following his doubles victory in Tokyo last week, <strong>Rinky Hijikata<\/strong> (NSW) will make his return to Playford in a doubles match alongside <strong>Mac Kiger<\/strong> (USA) in the third match on Court 2.<\/p>\n<p>Third seed <strong>Astra Sharma<\/strong> will headline the women\u2019s main draw tomorrow, beginning her campaign against Kyoka Okamura (JPN) in the first match on Court 8.<\/p>\n<p>Matches will commence at 10:00 am.<\/p>\n<p>Updated draws and orders of play for Tuesday 24 October now available <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/tournaments\/pro-tournaments\/australian-pro-tour\/city-of-playford-tennis-international\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matches have come to an end on Day 2 at the City of Playford Tennis International. South Australia\u2019s Li Tu defeated wildcard recipient Zack Viiala (WA) 7-5 6-2 to progress to the second round of the main draw, where he will be joined by 2022 finalist Rio Noguchi (FRA) after he defeated Arthur Weber (JPN). [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5736,"featured_media":30089,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30088","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\/30088","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=30088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30088\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}