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Written by Reece Homfray, Advertiser<\/strong><\/p>\n He will play for Somerton Park Sharks in a major coup for the new competition.<\/p>\n The No. 3 ranked junior tennis player in the world returned to Adelaide yesterday after consecutive ITF tournament victories in Korea.<\/p>\n “I’m very excited to come back to Adelaide and play in the NTL after two successful weeks in Korea,” he said.<\/p>\n “For me personally it’s beneficial for my tennis because it provides good match practice leading into the December showdown and then into January.<\/p>\n “It’s been a good year for me so far and I would love to finish it off strongly.”<\/p>\n Saville’s Somerton Park and rivals Rostrevor and Woodville-Glengarry all won their opening NTL ties last week.<\/p>\n Adelaide professional Colin Ebelthite and New Zealand Davis Cup player Marcus Daniell helped Rostrevor to a tight win over Trinity Titans 3-6-36 (matches, sets, games) to 3-6-29.<\/p>\n Novak Djokovic’s former coach Dejan Petrovic made a successful guest appearance for Woodville-Glengarry, winning his match against Brad Mousley as the Wanderers beat Broadview 5-10-44 to 1-2-24.<\/p>\n In the other tie, Somerton Park was too good for Goodwood winning 4-7-42 to 2-5-32.<\/p>\n In the women’s competition, Trinity Titans, The Drive and Flagstaff Freighters all had big wins to start the season.<\/p>\n Trinity beat Goodwood 5-8-39 to 1-4-25, The Drive was equally damaging against Golden Grove 5-11-46 to 1-1-17 while Flagstaff cruised past Gully Servers 5-10-45 to 1-2-22.<\/p>\n Round two tonight<\/strong><\/p>\n Men<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Somerton Park v Woodville-Glengarry, Broadview v Rostrevor, Trinity v Goodwood.<\/p>\n Women<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Flagstaff v Golden Grove, The Drive v Trinity, Goodwood v Gully.<\/p>\n -ends-<\/p>\n General public are welcome to watch National Tennis League matches at Memorial Drive, North Adelaide tonight from 6.15pm.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" JUNIOR Wimbledon champion Luke Saville will make his National Tennis League debut tonight. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5915,"featured_media":3632,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3631","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\/3631","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\/5915"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3631\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}