{"id":34366,"date":"2025-11-24T17:51:17","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T07:21:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/?p=34366"},"modified":"2025-11-25T17:32:42","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T07:02:42","slug":"day-2-of-the-city-of-playford-tennis-international-heats-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/news\/2025\/11\/24\/day-2-of-the-city-of-playford-tennis-international-heats-up","title":{"rendered":"Day 2 of the City of Playford Tennis International heats up!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<p>Day 2 of the City of Playford Tennis International comes to a close, with all men\u2019s and women\u2019s qualifying matches now complete and the men\u2019s main draw action just starting to heat up.<\/p>\n<p>In the men\u2019s qualifying finals, the top three qualifying seeds &#8211; <strong>Blaise Bicknell<\/strong> (JAM), <strong>Takuya Kumasaka<\/strong> (JPN) and <strong>Tung-Li Wu<\/strong> (TPE) have secured their spot in the main draw. <strong>Finn Bass<\/strong> (GBR) also progressed, alongside <strong>Ryuki Matsuda<\/strong> (JPN) and <strong>Carl Emil Overbeck<\/strong> (DEN).<\/p>\n<p>On the women\u2019s side, <strong>Arina Varaksina, Chengyiyi Yuan<\/strong> (CHN) and <strong>Valentina Ivanov<\/strong> (NZL) continued their strong run to qualify, joined by the two top seeds <strong>Arina Bulatova<\/strong> and <strong>Monique Barry<\/strong> (NZL). Australians <strong>Sarah Rokusek, Alexandra Osborne<\/strong> and <strong>Belle Thompson<\/strong> also impressed to book their spots in the main draw.<\/p>\n<p>The men\u2019s main draw kicked off today with four matches taking place. Japan\u2019s <strong>Rio Noguchi <\/strong>and <strong>Hiroki Moriya<\/strong> both won in straight sets, alongside Aussies <strong>Philip Sekulic<\/strong> and <strong>Bernard Tomic <\/strong>who also moved through to the next round.<\/p>\n<p>You do not want to miss the action on Day 3! Play kicks off from <strong>10:00am <\/strong>with South Aussies <strong>Alex Bolt<\/strong> and <strong>Li Tu<\/strong> ready to play on home soil plus No.2 seed <strong>Rinky Hijikata<\/strong> eager to defend his title. Rising star <strong>Tahlia Kokkinis <\/strong>(AUS) is one to watch tomorrow, alongside fellow Aussie <strong>Alexandra Osborne<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow\u2019s Order of Play:<\/p>\n<p>Women \u2013<a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/4a8wxyr\">bit.ly\/4a8wxyr<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Men \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/49xPydD\">bit.ly\/49xPydD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Live scores and streaming:<\/p>\n<p>Men \u2013\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/48vKPrG?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAYnJpZBExOGVKTUpsTjA5OFhFcjduVXNydGMGYXBwX2lkEDIyMjAzOTE3ODgyMDA4OTIAAR79bl5GVgqY0qcEsCDH5eAUDIbTfJW5z58e4Nb8AKRnJ2dOiqxiNkMvyskctw_aem_hsjDrWiSK4f44naEYLLQEw\">bit.ly\/48vKPrG<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Women \u2013\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/4owd5zz?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAYnJpZBExOGVKTUpsTjA5OFhFcjduVXNydGMGYXBwX2lkEDIyMjAzOTE3ODgyMDA4OTIAAR7Dji7W8M3k7Vr8zqDjbqWh8V_YSkBlQ6TOLFqJV5v2hCneaV6HZplVGJp_vA_aem_xrdW0YyqwdEz7SDa0gk5Fw\">bit.ly\/4owd5zz<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hashtag\/playfordprotour?__eep__=6&amp;__cft__%5b0%5d=AZUR4j1hoBhV8-Dq5IMhfzodZkyJf5eianJGjZCbdPOpQ2PTA5kUN5Q1C8KWv0IrtodEHVYd5PFIwbTrZuj_vjys69G6hsKRFs3OyeKfMBit0S3aJAtDy8BXpXpfsXoW02pm4iEyO0_2_Au8NeoLtPBLj_AvklPh4HHlP9iEcaRZCGWFD7RAw-VTSeVRT4kheoQ&amp;__tn__=*NK-R\">#PlayfordProTour<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Day 2 of the City of Playford Tennis International comes to a close, with all men\u2019s and women\u2019s qualifying matches now complete and the men\u2019s main draw action just starting to heat up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6294,"featured_media":34367,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34366","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\/34366","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=34366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34366\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}