> view 18\/u Australian Championships draws and scores<\/a><\/p>\nPlaying for the third time in short succession, Bourchier and Polmans have developed\u00a0a healthy respect for each other and \u2013 despite the blustery conditions \u2013 the match was always set to produce some great tennis.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe last two matches [against Polmans] I\u2019ve just got over line,\u201d Bourchier said. \u201cEven faced match points last time.<\/p>\n
\u201cI just had that extra belief today.\u201d<\/p>\n
As the match unfolded, the crowd was not disappointed. The first set reached 5-5 without a single break of serve as both players entertained with their powerful groundstrokes from the back of the court.<\/p>\n
With Polmans serving to take things into a tiebreak, Bourchier found another gear and ripped three clean winners to earn himself a set point. He didn\u2019t falter, and a miss from the 17-year-old Victorian handed Bourchier the opening set.<\/p>\n
A slightly unnerved Polmans then gave away his opening serve in the second set as the Bourchier momentum continued to build.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe wind died down a lot and I was able to really set up and hit the ball and get good balance,\u201d Bourchier said about his surge during the middle of the match.<\/p>\n
To his credit, Polmans was able to fight his way back into the kind of form that had seen him reach the final without the loss of a set.<\/p>\n
However, Bourchier remained extremely solid and maintained his early advantage throughout the second set, eventually serving out the match.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a good win. Vocally, you could tell [Polmans] was around until the last point. He just works like a machine every point,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was happy to get out of it today.\u201d<\/p>\n
The win now sees Bourchier earn a place in Australian Open 2015 qualifying as well as take the final spot in next week\u2019s\u00a0Australian Open Wildcard\u00a0Play-off.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m just going to play loose and free,\u201d Bourchier said.<\/p>\n
\u201cDefinitely. I\u2019ve got nothing to lose.\u201d<\/p>\n
Congratulations to Harry on this fantastic achievement and good luck for your summer of tennis!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tasmanian top seed Harry Bourchier has gone one\u00a0step further than last year and taken out the 18\/u Australian Championship title with a 7-5 6-3 defeat of second seed Marc Polmans. > view 18\/u Australian Championships draws and scores Playing for the third time in short succession, Bourchier and Polmans have developed\u00a0a healthy respect for each […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5905,"featured_media":5676,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/tas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/tas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/tas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/tas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5905"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/tas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/tas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5675\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/tas\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/tas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/tas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/tas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}