Day 3 at the City of Playford Tennis International has wrapped up with plenty of thrilling action on court.<\/p>\n
In the men’s singles, top seed Rinky Hijikata<\/strong> (NSW) showed his resilience, overcoming a tough challenge from qualifier Emile Hudd<\/strong> (GBR) in two tiebreak sets, 7-6[4] 7-6[2]. South Australia\u2019s own No.6 seed Li Tu<\/strong> delighted the home crowd with a strong 6-1 6-3 win over Saba Purtseladze<\/strong> (GEO), while fellow Aussies Philip Sekulic<\/strong> (Qld) and No.8 seed Philip Sekulic<\/strong> (Qld) also coming out on top.<\/p>\n Lucky loser Thomas Fancutt<\/strong> (Qld) battled past fellow Aussie Edward Winter<\/strong> (SA) 7-5 7-6[2], while Christian Langmo<\/strong> (USA) was victorious over Australia\u2019s Pavle Marinkov<\/strong> (NSW) in a three-set thriller, 6-3 4-6 6-3. Japan\u2019s Shintaro Imai<\/strong> and Masamichi Imamura<\/strong> both secured straight-set wins seeing them advance to the next round.<\/p>\n On the women\u2019s side, Australia\u2019s top performers continued to shine. No.1 seed Talia Gibson<\/strong> (WA) staged an impressive comeback to beat Japan’s Yuki Naito<\/strong> 6-7[4] 6-3 6-4. Taylah Preston<\/strong> (WA), Destanee Aiava<\/strong> (Vic), Alexandra Bozovic<\/strong> (NSW), Gabriella Da Silva Fick<\/strong> (NSW), and wild card Belle Thompson<\/strong> (Vic) also secured victories, ensuring a strong Aussie presence as the tournament progresses. Japan\u2019s Erika Sema<\/strong> also advances to the next round following her defeat over qualifier Ya Yi Yang<\/strong> (TPE), with Mia Horvit<\/strong> (USA) also coming out on top after defeating Alicia Smith<\/strong> (Qld).<\/p>\n As the competition heats up all eyes will be on Day 4, with matches starting from 10:00am.<\/p>\n Don\u2019t miss a minute of the action!<\/strong><\/p>\n Draws and orders of play \u2013 bit.ly\/3Mzn331<\/a><\/p>\n Live scores and streaming: Day 3 at the City of Playford Tennis International has wrapped up with plenty of thrilling action on court. In the men’s singles, top seed Rinky Hijikata (NSW) showed his resilience, overcoming a tough challenge from qualifier Emile Hudd (GBR) in two tiebreak sets, 7-6[4] 7-6[2]. South Australia\u2019s own No.6 seed Li Tu delighted the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6294,"featured_media":32718,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32717","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\/32717","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\/6294"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32717\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nMen \u2013 bit.ly\/3zXfJuW<\/a>
\nWomen \u2013 bit.ly\/4hrzmfB<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"