The weather finished off the tournament beautifully here in Port Pirie to finish off the 2015 Nyrstar Port Pirie Tennis International.<\/p>\n
In the Men\u2019s Final Australian Matthew Barton<\/strong> took to the court first and seemed eager to get the match underway \u00a0with \u00a0the crowd not leaving one seat unattended. Barton<\/strong> continued his good form against his opponent Alexander Sarkissian (USA)<\/strong> \u00a0taking out the first set in in style 6-3. In the second Sarkissian<\/strong> tried to regain poseur but seemed unable to when Barton<\/strong> continued to hit winners across court. \u00a0Barton<\/strong> took control when Sarkissian<\/strong> became frustrated and lost his temper at 4-2 \u00a0in the second set winning the match 6-3 6-4. Barton<\/strong> received his second title in South Australia after winning his first title at the Charles Sturt Tennis International in 2013.<\/p>\n In an entertaining women\u2019s \u00a0final, third seed Su Jeong Jang (KOR) <\/strong>came out firing against fellow Korean Na-Lae Han<\/strong> winning the first set 6-3, showing why she won the Clare Valley Tennis International in the previous week. \u00a0Jang<\/strong> got to a quick start in the second set with a 4-2 lead and looked to put the match to an end. Han<\/strong> in a remarkable comeback won the next four games in a row shocking the crowd and her opponent winning the second set 6-4. Han<\/strong> went on to win the next four games in a row before Jang<\/strong> tried to have a comeback but was unable to strike back awarding the final to Han <\/strong>3-6 6-4 6-2 for the 2015 Nyrstar Port Pirie Tennis International.<\/p>\n Our sincere thanks to Tournament Coordinators Neil Lucas and Grant Hanlon and the team here at the Port Pirie & District Tennis Association who \u00a0have worked tirelessly over the past ten days to make this tournament a huge success.<\/p>\n For more information on the Australian Pro Tour or Tennis Australia visit www.tennis.com.au<\/a>. For more information on the ITF Futures visit www.itftennis.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The weather finished off the tournament beautifully here in Port Pirie to finish off the 2015 Nyrstar Port Pirie Tennis International. In the Men\u2019s Final Australian Matthew Barton took to the court first and seemed eager to get the match underway \u00a0with \u00a0the crowd not leaving one seat unattended. Barton continued his good form against […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5915,"featured_media":7973,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7972","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\/7972","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=7972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7972\/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=7972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}