{"id":3922,"date":"2012-01-27T16:47:44","date_gmt":"2012-01-27T07:17:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/?p=3922"},"modified":"2012-01-27T16:47:44","modified_gmt":"2012-01-27T07:17:44","slug":"luke-saville-into-ao-junior-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/news\/2012\/01\/27\/luke-saville-into-ao-junior-finals","title":{"rendered":"Luke Saville into AO Junior finals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Luke Saville is one win away from becoming the nation\u2019s third Australian Open boys\u2019 singles champion in six years.<\/p>\n<p>Saville, who turns 18 next week, beat Czech 17-year-old Adam Pavlasek 6-3 6-4 on Friday in their semifinal.<\/p>\n<p>The 10th-seeded Pavlasek is the boyfriend of Czech women\u2019s world No.2 Petra Kvitova, who also fell in the semifinals of her event, to Russian Maria Sharapova on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Saville, the world\u2019s No.1 junior and top seed, will play an unseeded opponent in Saturday\u2019s final.<\/p>\n<p>American qualifier Mackenzie McDonald and Canadian Filip Peliwo were to meet in the second semifinal later on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Saville, who won junior Wimbledon last year, is the only Australian left with a chance of taking a trophy home from Melbourne Park.<\/p>\n<p>If he wins on Saturday, he will join fellow Australians Brydan Klein (2007) and Bernard Tomic (2008) on the list of recent Australian champions in the boys\u2019 event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saville, the world\u2019s No.1 junior and top seed, will play an unseeded opponent in Saturday\u2019s final.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5915,"featured_media":3923,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3922","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\/3922","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=3922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3922\/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=3922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}