{"id":36536,"date":"2024-01-02T00:11:03","date_gmt":"2024-01-01T13:11:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/?p=36536"},"modified":"2024-01-02T00:11:03","modified_gmt":"2024-01-01T13:11:03","slug":"saville-secures-second-round-spot-at-brisbane-international","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/news\/2024\/01\/02\/saville-secures-second-round-spot-at-brisbane-international","title":{"rendered":"Saville secures second-round spot at Brisbane International"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"banner-article__container__text default\">\n<p><strong>Daria Saville makes a perfect start to her 2024 season, charging into the second round of the Brisbane International women&#8217;s singles competition.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wysiwyg\">\n<p>Daria Saville (VIC) has made a confident start to her Brisbane International women\u2019s singles campaign, dismissing Ukrainian qualifier Dayana Yastremska in the opening round.<\/p>\n<p>The Aussie wildcard did not lose a service game in her 6-0 6-4 opening round victory at Pat Rafter Arena.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was really exciting to be back here playing in Brisbane,\u201d Saville said. \u201cI\u2019ve got a lot of Queenslanders in my team actually. My coach (Jay Gooding) is a Queenslander.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This is 29-year-old Saville\u2019s first WTA main-draw win on Australian soil since February 2021.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m really happy with the start and I\u2019ve got doubles tomorrow, so another match,\u201d Saville said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m just excited to be competing again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Saville continues to show promising signs in her return from a knee injury which sidelined her for six months during 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to media earlier this week, the world No.209 declared she is determined to charge back up the WTA Tour singles rankings.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI really want to come back inside top 20. That was my best ranking,\u201d Saville said. \u201cI think one of my other goals for this year is to become the No.1 Aussie.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Her immediate focus, however, is now on a second-round meeting with world No.28 Anastasia Potapova, as well as doubles with close friend Daria Kasatkina.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daria Saville makes a perfect start to her 2024 season, charging into the second round of the Brisbane International women&#8217;s singles competition. Daria Saville (VIC) has made a confident start to her Brisbane International women\u2019s singles campaign, dismissing Ukrainian qualifier Dayana Yastremska in the opening round. The Aussie wildcard did not lose a service game [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6373,"featured_media":36537,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36536","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=36536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36536\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}