{"id":32735,"date":"2024-10-24T18:39:03","date_gmt":"2024-10-24T08:09:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/?p=32735"},"modified":"2024-10-24T18:39:03","modified_gmt":"2024-10-24T08:09:03","slug":"aussie-showdown-as-day-5-of-the-city-of-playford-tennis-international-comes-to-a-close","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/news\/2024\/10\/24\/aussie-showdown-as-day-5-of-the-city-of-playford-tennis-international-comes-to-a-close","title":{"rendered":"Aussie showdown as day 5 of the city of Playford Tennis International comes to a close"},"content":{"rendered":"

Day 5 has officially concluded at the City of Playford International<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

There were plenty of Aussies hitting the court with Australian No.1 seed Rinky Hijikata<\/strong> (NSW) defeating fellow Aussie Dane Sweeny<\/strong> (NSW) 6-4 6-3, while South Aussie\u00a0Li Tu<\/strong> advanced through to the Quarterfinals defeating Philip Sekulic<\/strong>\u00a0(Qld) 6-4 6-2.<\/p>\n

Yuta Shimizu<\/strong> (JPN) defeated Lucky Loser Yuki Mochizuki<\/strong> (JPN) to advance through to the Quarterfinals and joining him is No.7 seed Omar Jasika<\/strong> (Vic) after his win 6-3 6-3 against Christian Langmo<\/strong> (USA).<\/p>\n

The women’s draw saw an epic line up with four Aussies in action to kick off the morning, Western Australian No.2 seed Taylah Preston<\/strong> was victorious against Naho Sato<\/strong> (JPN) 6-1 6-2, and fellow Western Australian No.1 seed Talia Gibson<\/strong> defeated\u00a0Elena Micic<\/strong>\u00a0(Vic) 6-2 6-4.\u00a0 Meanwhile South Australia’s Petra Hule<\/strong> advances through to the Quarterfinals after defeating Victoria’s Belle Thompson<\/strong> 6-4 6-1.<\/p>\n

No.3 seed Maddison Inglis<\/strong>\u00a0(WA) will be joining in the Quarterfinals action after defeating\u00a0Erika Sema<\/strong> (JPN) in straight sets. In similar events, No.4 seed Destanee Aiava<\/strong>\u00a0was also successful in a straight set victory over Alexandra Bozovic<\/strong> (AUS); while No.5 seed Himeno Sakatsume<\/strong>\u00a0(JPN) advanced through to the Quarterfinals following her 6-0 7-5 win over Mia Horvit<\/strong> (USA).<\/p>\n

Double’s action saw a thrilling win for Aussies Calum Puttergill<\/strong> and Dane Sweeny<\/strong> as they claimed victory in a tiebreaker 6-4 6[4]-7 [16-14]. Aussie duo\u00a0Blake Ellis<\/strong> and Thomas Fancutt,<\/strong>\u00a0Japan’s Seita Watanabe<\/strong> and Takeru Yuzuki<\/strong>, and Aussie brothers Jake Delaney<\/strong> and Jesse Delaney<\/strong>\u00a0also came out on top in their matches.\u00a0In the women’s doubles, Aussies Lizette Cabrera<\/strong>\u00a0(Qld) and Taylah Preston <\/strong>(WA), Alexandra Bozovic<\/strong>\u00a0(NSW) and Petra Hule<\/strong> (SA) have all progressed through to the semifinals. Joining them are Japan’s Yuki Naito<\/strong> and Naho Sato<\/strong>, and Sakura Hosogi<\/strong> and Natsumi Kawaguchi<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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Catch all the action for day 6!<\/strong><\/p>\n

Draws and orders of play \u2013\u00a0bit.ly\/3Mzn331<\/a><\/p>\n

Live scores and streaming:
\nMen \u2013\u00a0bit.ly\/3zXfJuW<\/a>
\nWomen \u2013\u00a0bit.ly\/4hrzmfB<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Day 5 has officially concluded at the City of Playford International. There were plenty of Aussies hitting the court with Australian No.1 seed Rinky Hijikata (NSW) defeating fellow Aussie Dane Sweeny (NSW) 6-4 6-3, while South Aussie\u00a0Li Tu advanced through to the Quarterfinals defeating Philip Sekulic\u00a0(Qld) 6-4 6-2. Yuta Shimizu (JPN) defeated Lucky Loser Yuki […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6355,"featured_media":32738,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32735","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\/32735","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\/6355"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32735\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}