{"id":34060,"date":"2023-10-01T23:49:00","date_gmt":"2023-10-01T12:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/?p=34060"},"modified":"2023-10-20T23:56:47","modified_gmt":"2023-10-20T12:56:47","slug":"daria-saville-celebrates-another-milestone-in-tour-comeback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/news\/2023\/10\/01\/daria-saville-celebrates-another-milestone-in-tour-comeback","title":{"rendered":"Daria Saville Celebrates Another Milestone in Tour Comeback"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>The resurgent Daria Saville records her first top-100 singles win on hard court in more than a year at the China Open.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Daria Saville has made an impressive start to her China Open campaign, dismissing Czech Katerina Siniakova 6-2 6-2 in the opening round.<\/p>\n<p>The 29-year-old Australian proved clutch under pressure in the 87-minute encounter, saving six of the seven break points she faced against world No.90 Siniakova.<\/p>\n<p>It is Saville\u2019s first top-100 victory on hard court since returning to the tour in June, marking another major milestone in her comeback from knee surgery.<\/p>\n<p>This is also Saville\u2019s first win at a WTA 1000-level tournament since she made the quarterfinals at Miami in March 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Saville is currently ranked No.248 and used a protected ranking of No.54 to enter the draw in Beijing.<\/p>\n<p>She will look to continue her promising progress against Ukrainian Anhelina Kalinina in the second round.<\/p>\n<p>It looms as another big test for Saville, with world No.28 Kalinina eliminating the eighth seed and reigning Wimbledon champion Marketa Vondrousova in the opening round.<\/p>\n<p>Saville\u2019s best result at the China Open, one of the tour\u2019s biggest events outside the four Grand Slams, was a quarterfinal appearance in 2016.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>Beijing, China, 1 October 2023 | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/news\/2023\/10\/01\/saville-celebrates-another-milestone-in-tour-comeback\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Article via Tennis Australia \/ Leigh Rogers<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The resurgent Daria Saville records her first top-100 singles win on hard court in more than a year at the China Open.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6373,"featured_media":34062,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[52,90,89],"class_list":["post-34060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-competitive-play","tag-daria-saville","tag-pro-players"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6373"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34060\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}