{"id":7712,"date":"2014-12-19T08:25:28","date_gmt":"2014-12-18T22:55:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/?p=7712"},"modified":"2014-12-19T08:25:28","modified_gmt":"2014-12-18T22:55:28","slug":"saville-leads-aussie-hopefuls-as-player-acceptance-list-released-for-city-of-onkaparinga-atp-challenger-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/news\/2014\/12\/19\/saville-leads-aussie-hopefuls-as-player-acceptance-list-released-for-city-of-onkaparinga-atp-challenger-2015","title":{"rendered":"Saville leads Aussie hopefuls as player acceptance list released for City of Onkaparinga ATP Challenger 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"

The preliminary player acceptance list for the City of Onkaparinga ATP Challenger 2015 <\/strong>has been released with South Australian Luke Saville<\/strong> set to join a star-studded international field, including four top 100 players, lining up for the event from 3 January.<\/p>\n

Saville comes into the main draw as the highest ranked Australian player, with a current world ranking of No.165. Saville, who hails from Barmera in the Riverland, has won six ITF Futures titles in his career, including three in 2014. The 20-year-old has also shown solid results on the ATP Tour this year, with a standout first round win at Wimbledon where he defeated Dominic Thiem<\/strong> (AUT).<\/p>\n

Joining Saville in the field will be Slovenian world No.80 Blaz Rola<\/strong>. Rola is the highest ranked player in the field, sitting just ahead of previously-announced crowd favourite Marcos Baghdatis<\/strong> (CYP) at world No.85. Rola holds nine ITF Futures titles, along with one ATP Challenger title won at Guangzhou earlier this year. In a sign of what\u2019s to come, Rola came close to defeating Spaniard Fernando Verdasco<\/strong> at the 2014 US Open, but was eventually defeated in five sets.<\/p>\n

2009 Wimbledon boys singles champion Andrey Kuznetsov <\/strong>will also be a player to watch in the event. The world No.92 took his first top 10 win against David Ferrer<\/strong> (ESP) at Wimbledon in 2014 in five sets, with the win propelling him into the third round of a Grand Slam event for the first time. The 23-year-old Russian is a five-time ATP Challenger singles champion who will be looking for a sixth title at the City of Onkaparinga ATP Challenger 2015.<\/p>\n

Paul-Henri Mathieu<\/strong> (FRA) rounds out the players ranked inside the top 100. The 32-year-old former world No.12 holds four ATP singles titles.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are obviously thrilled to announce such a strong field of players planning to come to the City of Onkaparinga ATP Challenger 2015,\u201d said Tournament Director Dylan Hicks.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cIt is very exciting that in its first year this event has been able to draw such a highly ranked field of players. The countdown to the event is on, with Happy Valley Tennis Club and tournament staff in final preparations for the tournament starting on 3 January,\u201d Hicks added.<\/p>\n

City of Onkaparinga ATP Challenger 2015
\n<\/strong>Player acceptance list as at 17 December 2014<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Name <\/em><\/td>\nCountry <\/em><\/td>\nATP Ranking<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Albot, Radu<\/td>\nMDA<\/td>\n168<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Andreozzi, Guido<\/td>\nARG<\/td>\n186<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Baghdatis, Marcos<\/td>\nCYP<\/td>\n85<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Broady, Liam<\/td>\nGBR<\/td>\n195<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Chung, Hyeon<\/td>\nKOR<\/td>\n173<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Fucsovics, Marton<\/td>\nHUN<\/td>\n162<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Ghem, Andre<\/td>\nBRA<\/td>\n166<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Harrison, Ryan<\/td>\nUSA<\/td>\n189<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Kuznetsov, Andrey<\/td>\nRUS<\/td>\n92<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Mathieu, Paul-Henri<\/td>\nFRA<\/td>\n97<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Melzer, Gerald<\/td>\nAUT<\/td>\n163<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Molchanov, Denys<\/td>\nUKR<\/td>\n175<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Moriya, Hiroki<\/td>\nJPN<\/td>\n146<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Nedovyesov, Aleksandr<\/td>\nKAZ<\/td>\n129<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Nishioka, Yoshihito<\/td>\nJPN<\/td>\n153<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Odesnik, Wayne<\/td>\nUSA<\/td>\n171<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Petzschner, Philipp<\/td>\nGER<\/td>\n192<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Puetz, Tim<\/td>\nGER<\/td>\n185<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Rola, Blaz<\/td>\nSLO<\/td>\n80<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Russell, Michael<\/td>\nUSA<\/td>\n159<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Saville, Luke<\/td>\nAUS<\/td>\n165<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Viola, Matteo<\/td>\nITA<\/td>\n188<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Zhang, Ze<\/td>\nCHN<\/td>\n183<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Zopp, Jurgen<\/td>\nEST<\/td>\n187<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

 <\/p>\n

Please note list is subject to change<\/em><\/p>\n

Background<\/strong><\/p>\n

The City of Onkaparinga ATP Challenger 2015 will take place at the Happy Valley Tennis Club, Aberfoyle Park, Adelaide from 3-11 January 2015.<\/p>\n

Entry to the event from 3-9 January will be free of charge. Tickets for Saturday, 10 January and Sunday, 11 January will start from $3.00 and can be purchased from the gate.<\/p>\n

For more information on the Australian Pro Tour or Tennis Australia visit www.tennis.com.au<\/a>. For more information on the ATP Challenger Tour visit www.atpworldtour.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The preliminary player acceptance list for the City of Onkaparinga ATP Challenger 2015 has been released with South Australian Luke Saville set to join a star-studded international field, including four top 100 players, lining up for the event from 3 January. Saville comes into the main draw as the highest ranked Australian player, with a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5915,"featured_media":7720,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7712","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\/7712","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=7712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7712\/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=7712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}