{"id":9621,"date":"2016-02-19T10:11:08","date_gmt":"2016-02-18T23:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/?p=9621"},"modified":"2016-02-19T10:11:08","modified_gmt":"2016-02-18T23:41:08","slug":"dellacqua-and-barty-to-headline-doubles-draw-at-nyrstar-port-pirie-tennis-international","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/news\/2016\/02\/19\/dellacqua-and-barty-to-headline-doubles-draw-at-nyrstar-port-pirie-tennis-international","title":{"rendered":"Dellacqua and Barty to headline doubles draw at Nyrstar Port Pirie Tennis International"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of Australia\u2019s most accomplished women\u2019s doubles pairings, <strong>Casey Dellacqua <\/strong>and<strong> Ashleigh Barty<\/strong>, will return to action at the <strong>2016 Nyrstar Port Pirie Tennis International<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Nineteen-year-old Barty launched her comeback to professional tennis this month at back-to-back <strong>Australian Pro Tour<\/strong> events in Perth, winning a doubles title in her first outing alongside <strong>Jessica Moore<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Dellacqua, the world No.3 ranked doubles player, returns following a four-month lay-off due to injury. The 31-year-old\u2019s comeback also commenced this month, when she teamed up with Sam Stosur to win the deciding doubles rubber in the Fed Cup tie against Slovakia.<\/p>\n<p>Dellacqua and Barty have won two WTA doubles titles and reached three Grand Slam doubles finals.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo have Ash and Casey back playing tennis is fantastic and we\u2019re especially excited to see them pair up here in Port Pirie,\u201d said local organiser <strong>Neil Lucas<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCasey won the singles event here a few years ago so she will be welcomed back with open arms and we\u2019re also looking forward to watching Ash Barty on her comeback.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The 2016 Nyrstar Port Pirie Tennis International will take place at Port Pirie and District Tennis Association, Port Pirie, South Australia from 20-28 February. Main draw singles matches commence on Tuesday 23 February.<\/p>\n<p>For more information on the Australian Pro Tour visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/tournaments\/pro-tournaments\/australian-pro-tour\/port-pirie\" target=\"_blank\">tennis.com.au.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Photo by Getty Images<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of Australia\u2019s most accomplished women\u2019s doubles pairings, Casey Dellacqua and Ashleigh Barty, will return to action at the 2016 Nyrstar Port Pirie Tennis International. Nineteen-year-old Barty launched her comeback to professional tennis this month at back-to-back Australian Pro Tour events in Perth, winning a doubles title in her first outing alongside Jessica Moore. Dellacqua, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5870,"featured_media":9622,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9621","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\/9621","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\/5870"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9621\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}