{"id":30092,"date":"2023-10-24T11:55:01","date_gmt":"2023-10-24T01:25:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/?p=30092"},"modified":"2023-10-24T11:55:01","modified_gmt":"2023-10-24T01:25:01","slug":"thanasi-kokkinakis-and-astra-sharma-both-through-to-the-second-round-at-the-city-of-playford-tennis-international","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/news\/2023\/10\/24\/thanasi-kokkinakis-and-astra-sharma-both-through-to-the-second-round-at-the-city-of-playford-tennis-international","title":{"rendered":"Thanasi Kokkinakis and Astra Sharma both through to the second round at the City of Playford Tennis International"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Day 3 matches are complete at the <strong>City of Playford Tennis International<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Top seed <strong>Thanasi Kokkinakis<\/strong> (SA) defeated qualifier <strong>Yusuke Takahashi<\/strong> (JPN) in just under two-and-a-half hours, 6-7(7) 6-3 6-2.<\/p>\n<p>Third seed <strong>Astra Sharma<\/strong> (WA) moved through to the second round with a win over <strong>Kyoka Okamura<\/strong> (JPN) 6-4 7-6(6), while 15-year-old <strong>Emerson Jones<\/strong> (Qld), who is the current junior world No.10, took her winning streak to 15 matches with a win over <strong>Gabriella Da Silva Fick<\/strong> (NSW) 6-4 6-0.<\/p>\n<p>Day 4 will see 2022 champions, <strong>Kimberly Birrell<\/strong> (Qld) and <strong>Rinky Hijikata<\/strong> (NSW), begin their title defences. Birrell will play <strong>Elysia Bolton<\/strong> (NSW) in the first match on Court 8, while Hijikata will open proceedings on Centre Court against qualifier <strong>JiSung Nam<\/strong> (KOR). South Australia\u2019s <strong>Petra Hule <\/strong>will also take to the court for the first time in doubles alongside <strong>Taylah Preston <\/strong>(WA).<\/p>\n<p>Matches will commence at 10:00 am.<\/p>\n<p>Updated draws and orders of play for Wednesday 25 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>Day 3 matches are complete at the City of Playford Tennis International. Top seed Thanasi Kokkinakis (SA) defeated qualifier Yusuke Takahashi (JPN) in just under two-and-a-half hours, 6-7(7) 6-3 6-2. Third seed Astra Sharma (WA) moved through to the second round with a win over Kyoka Okamura (JPN) 6-4 7-6(6), while 15-year-old Emerson Jones (Qld), [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5736,"featured_media":30094,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30092","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\/30092","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=30092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30092\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}