{"id":32752,"date":"2024-10-25T18:15:39","date_gmt":"2024-10-25T07:45:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/?p=32752"},"modified":"2024-10-25T18:15:39","modified_gmt":"2024-10-25T07:45:39","slug":"things-are-heating-up-on-day-6-of-the-city-of-playford-tennis-international","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/news\/2024\/10\/25\/things-are-heating-up-on-day-6-of-the-city-of-playford-tennis-international","title":{"rendered":"Things are heating up on Day 6 of the City of Playford Tennis International"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Things were heating up on Day 6 of the City of Playford Tennis International as we inch further to the end of the tournament.<\/p>\n<p>The morning kicked off with a win from No.1 seed <strong>Rinky Hijikata<\/strong> (Nsw) after he fought back to claim victory in just under 3 hours over No.7 seed <strong>Omar Jasika<\/strong> (Vic), 5-7 7-6[4] 6-3.<\/p>\n<p>It was a day of upsets as Aussie No.8 seed <strong>Marc Polmans<\/strong> (Vic) defeated No.3 seed <strong>Shintaro Mochizuki<\/strong> in a three-set battle 2-6 6-4 6-4, securing his spot in the semifinals. In similar events, Japan&#8217;s <strong>Yuta Shimizu<\/strong> knocked out No.6 seed and South Aussie<strong> Li<\/strong> <strong>Tu<\/strong>, while <strong>Masamichi Imamura<\/strong> (JPN) claimed victory over No.4 seed <strong>Tristain Schoolkate<\/strong> (WA).<\/p>\n<p>In the women&#8217;s singles, Aussies dominated with the top three seeds hailing from Western Australia,<strong> Talia Gibson<\/strong> (No.1 seed), <strong>Taylah Preston<\/strong> (No.2 seed), and <strong>Maddison Inglis<\/strong> (No.3 seed) all making it through to the semifinals. Joining them is No.5 seed <strong>Himeno Sakatsume<\/strong> (JPN) after she defeated No.4 seed\u00a0<strong>Destanee Aiava<\/strong> (Vic) in straight sets 6-3 6-3.<\/p>\n<p>In doubles Aussie Duo and No. 2 seed <strong>Blake Ellis<\/strong> and <strong>Thomas Fancutt<\/strong> will take on Aussie brothers Jake Delaney and Jesse Delaney in tomorrow&#8217;s final starting at 11:00am. In the women&#8217;s draw <strong>Alexandra Bozovic<\/strong> and<strong> Petra Hule<\/strong> will battle it out against fellow Aussies<strong> Lizette Cabrera<\/strong> and <strong>Taylah Preston<\/strong> in the final tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Catch all the action for Day 7!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Draws and orders of play \u2013\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/3Mzn331\">bit.ly\/3Mzn331<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Live scores and streaming:<br \/>\nMen \u2013\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/3zXfJuW\">bit.ly\/3zXfJuW<\/a><br \/>\nWomen \u2013\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/4hrzmfB\">bit.ly\/4hrzmfB<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Things were heating up on Day 6 of the City of Playford Tennis International as we inch further to the end of the tournament. The morning kicked off with a win from No.1 seed Rinky Hijikata (Nsw) after he fought back to claim victory in just under 3 hours over No.7 seed Omar Jasika (Vic), [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6294,"featured_media":32753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32752","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\/32752","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=32752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32752\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}