{"id":5322,"date":"2013-01-08T22:57:47","date_gmt":"2013-01-08T13:27:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/?p=5322"},"modified":"2013-01-08T22:57:47","modified_gmt":"2013-01-08T13:27:47","slug":"world-tennis-challenge-daily-update-tuesday-8-january-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/news\/2013\/01\/08\/world-tennis-challenge-daily-update-tuesday-8-january-2013","title":{"rendered":"2013 World Tennis Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A glamour doubles pairing of the iron willed <strong>Martina Navratilova<\/strong> and <strong>Pat Cash<\/strong> faced the multi slam winning, and ever smiling, <strong>Martina Hingis<\/strong> and <strong>Mats Wilander.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>And it was close indeed, blow for blow all the way with Navratilova and Cash taking the tie break by just two points for a 6\/5(8) victory. \u00a0A crowd thriller, all angles and attitude, all the way.<\/p>\n<p>The noise though came from the parallel court as the vociferous <strong>Henri Leconte<\/strong> and <strong>Victor Troicki<\/strong> went down to <strong>Mansour Bahrami<\/strong> and <strong>Stan Wawrinka<\/strong> 6\/5 (3).<\/p>\n<p>The Memorial Drive evening had begun with high sunshine but soon morphed into a pleasant yet windy affair with all current players initially struggling at times with the elements.<\/p>\n<p>Vicktor Trociki will have hoped travel would have lagged Stan Wawrinka -he flew in this morning from Chennai, India \u2013 and indeed the Swiss failed to repel the big serve and solid baseline game of his opponent as the Serbian ran out a winner in two sets, 7\/6(8), 6\/2.<\/p>\n<p>On court one, <strong>Nicolas Almagro<\/strong>, the week\u2019s highest ranked player (11) put down a fashion statement with his lemon coloured attire but simultaneously laid down a statement of tennis intent, a sizzling forehand and lethal single handed backhand put paid to the dynamic and effervescent <strong>Alexandr Dolgopolov<\/strong>, back for a second consecutive year, 7\/6, 6\/3.<\/p>\n<p>Henri Leconte v Mats Wilander, was a repeat of the 1988 French Open final and once again Wilander came out the victor, this time by 8\/5 in the pro set, his consistency to the fore, rarely a mistake all night from the Swedish maestro despite the swirling winds.<\/p>\n<p>Leconte, was simply, Leconte. \u00a0Stylish, unruffled and ever unpredictable and at one point even throwing in a passable Gangnam Style impersonation. \u00a0The crowd loved it, of course.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile on court two, Adelaide born <strong>Wayne Arthurs<\/strong>, a singles replacement for Pat Cash, threw in his mighty left hand serve too often for <strong>Mikael Pernfors<\/strong>, a man who days ago had never been to Adelaide and\u00a0 didn\u2019t even know he would be playing until his late call up.<\/p>\n<p>Pernfors\u2019 game was rusty in parts but the mantle of a former top 10 player had clearly not left him and he will improve on his 8\/2 loss as the week progresses.<\/p>\n<p>For full results visit <a title=\"http:\/\/worldtennischallenge.com\/\" href=\"http:\/\/worldtennischallenge.com\/\">worldtennischallenge.com. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daily Update: Tuesday 8 January 2013<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5915,"featured_media":5323,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5322","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\/5322","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=5322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5322\/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=5322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}