{"id":30117,"date":"2023-10-27T08:29:46","date_gmt":"2023-10-26T21:59:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/?p=30117"},"modified":"2023-10-27T08:29:46","modified_gmt":"2023-10-26T21:59:46","slug":"semifinal-line-up-confirmed-at-city-of-playford-tennis-international","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/news\/2023\/10\/27\/semifinal-line-up-confirmed-at-city-of-playford-tennis-international","title":{"rendered":"Semifinal line up confirmed at City of Playford Tennis International"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Singles quarterfinals have been completed on Day 6 at the <strong>City of Playford Tennis International<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Former champions<strong> Rinky Hijikata<\/strong> (NSW) and <strong>James Duckworth<\/strong> (NSW) have set up a blockbuster semifinal clash. Hijikata took a 6-1 6-1 win over [6] <strong>Seongchan Hong<\/strong> (KOR), while Duckworth claimed a 4-6 6-2 6-4 victory over <strong>Hiroki Moriya<\/strong> (JPN). They will be joined by <strong>Chak Lam Coleman Wong<\/strong> (HKG), after he overcame eighth seed <strong>Tristan Schookate <\/strong>(WA) in just over three hours, 6-7(7) 7-6(3) 7-6(2) and third seed <strong>Taro Daniel<\/strong> (JPN) who defeated <strong>Yuta Shimizu<\/strong> (JPN) 6-1 6-2.<\/p>\n<p>On the women\u2019s side, third seed <strong>Astra Sharma<\/strong> (AUS) defeated <strong>Jaimee Fourlis<\/strong> (Vic) 6-1 6-1, <strong>Joanna Garland<\/strong> (TPE) overcame <strong>Seone Mendez<\/strong> (NSW) 7-5 7-5 and eighth seed <strong>YeXin Ma<\/strong> (CHN) defeated <strong>Chihiro Muramatsu<\/strong> (JPN) 6-1 6-4. Unfortunately, top seed <strong>Kimberly Birrell <\/strong>(Qld) was forced to retire from her match against <strong>Taylah Preston<\/strong> (WA) with a gastrointestinal illness, with the final score 4-6 7-6(2) 4-1 ret.<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow is singles semifinals and doubles finals day, with matches commencing at 11:00 am.<\/p>\n<p>Updated draws and orders of play for Saturday 28 October now available\u00a0<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>Singles quarterfinals have been completed on Day 6 at the City of Playford Tennis International. Former champions Rinky Hijikata (NSW) and James Duckworth (NSW) have set up a blockbuster semifinal clash. Hijikata took a 6-1 6-1 win over [6] Seongchan Hong (KOR), while Duckworth claimed a 4-6 6-2 6-4 victory over Hiroki Moriya (JPN). They [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5736,"featured_media":30118,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30117","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\/30117","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=30117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30117\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}