Luke Saville (Barmera, SA) fought his way back from a set down to take home the Sydney Olympic Park Tennis International # 2 title on Saturday.<\/p>\n
World No.482 Saville defeated Yasutaka Uchiyama (JPN) 4-6 6-4 6-4 to collect his first Futures title of 2013.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was a tough match, I fought pretty hard there. It was a disappointing first set, being a break up, but the second and third set I played extremely well.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s great to get the win. It\u2019s my first (title) in over a year so I\u2019m pretty stoked\u201d Saville said.<\/p>\n
Saville had not won a match on the courts at Sydney Olympic Park Tennis Centre<\/strong> before this week.<\/p>\n Dane Propoggia <\/strong>(Eastlakes, NSW) and Jose Statham<\/strong> (NZ) <\/strong>paired up for the second week in a row to defeat third seed, Yasutaka Uchiyama<\/strong> (JPN) and Yuki Bhambari <\/strong>(IND), 6-4 6-3.<\/p>\n The pair now have a combined 47 Pro Tour doubles titles and this week\u2019s victory is their sixth as a pair.<\/p>\n Saville will now head to Victoria for the Victorian Tennis International, <\/strong>a US$50,000 ATP Challenger event.\u00a0 Qualifying will begin on Saturday 19 October, with main draw starting Monday 21 October.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s a great confidence builder going into the Challengers.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThere are more points up for grabs there, so I am really looking forward to a couple of great weeks \u201d Saville added.<\/p>\n For more information about the Australian Pro Tour, Tennis Australia or the players visit www.tennis.com.au<\/a>. For more information on the ITF Pro Circuit visit www.itftennis.com.<\/p>\n For Australian Pro Tour score updates follow @oztennisresults<\/a> on Twitter. For all tennis news follow @tennisaustralia<\/a> or like us on Facebook.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Luke Saville (Barmera, SA) fought his way back from a set down to take home the Sydney Olympic Park Tennis International # 2 title on Saturday. World No.482 Saville defeated Yasutaka Uchiyama (JPN) 4-6 6-4 6-4 to collect his first Futures title of 2013. \u201cIt was a tough match, I fought pretty hard there. It […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5915,"featured_media":6414,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6413","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\/6413","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=6413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6413\/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=6413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}