{"id":37067,"date":"2024-02-05T01:19:27","date_gmt":"2024-02-04T14:19:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/?p=37067"},"modified":"2024-02-07T07:25:52","modified_gmt":"2024-02-06T20:25:52","slug":"omar-jasika-claims-singles-title-at-burnie-international","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/news\/2024\/02\/05\/omar-jasika-claims-singles-title-at-burnie-international","title":{"rendered":"Omar Jasika claims singles title at Burnie International"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Omar Jasika (Vic) claimed the singles title at the Burnie International 1 event on Sunday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A resurgent Jasika defeated four Australians during his title-winning run in the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/scores\/current-challenger\/burnie\/5018\/draws?matchType=Singles\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">men\u2019s singles<\/a>\u00a0competition, which included a 6-2 6-7(2) 6-3 victory against compatriot Alex Bolt in the final.<\/p>\n<p>The 26-year-old also eliminated defending champion Rinky Hijikata in the second round.<\/p>\n<p>Jasika\u2019s three-set triumph against world No.74 Hijikata was the biggest win of his career and his first top-100 victory in eight years.<\/p>\n<p>It continues an impressive run of form for world No.293 Jasika, who qualified at last month\u2019s Australian Open and has now won eight of his past nine matches.<\/p>\n<p>This is Jasika\u2019s second career ATP Challenger singles title and first since his triumph in Burnie seven years ago.<\/p>\n<p>The Australian Pro Tour continues this week with back-to-back events in Burnie.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/scores\/current-challenger\/burnie-2\/7203\/draws\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&gt; VIEW: Burnie International 2 men\u2019s singles draw<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.itftennis.com\/en\/tournament\/w75-burnie\/aus\/2024\/w-itf-aus-02a-2024\/draws-and-results\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&gt; VIEW: Burnie International 2 women\u2019s singles draw<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Burnie International 2024 \u2013 finals<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Men\u2019s singles:\u00a0<\/em><strong>Omar Jasika (AUS)<\/strong>\u00a0d\u00a0<strong>Alex Bolt (AUS)<\/strong>\u00a06-2 6-7(2) 6-3<\/p>\n<p><em>Women\u2019s singles:\u00a0<\/em><strong>[2] Priscilla Hon (AUS)<\/strong>\u00a0d Sara Saito (JPN) 6-3 6-0<\/p>\n<p><em>Men\u2019s doubles:<\/em>\u00a0<strong>[1] Alex Bolt (AUS)\/Luke Saville (AUS)<\/strong>\u00a0d\u00a0<strong>[2] Tristan Schoolkate (AUS)\/Adam Walton (AUS)<\/strong>\u00a05-7 6-3 [12-10]<\/p>\n<p><em>Women\u2019s doubles:\u00a0<\/em>Paige Hourigan (NZL)\/Erin Routliffe (NZL) d\u00a0<span class=\"drawsheet-widget__first-name\">Kyoka\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"drawsheet-widget__last-name\">Okamura (JPN)\/<\/span><span class=\"drawsheet-widget__first-name\">Ayano\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"drawsheet-widget__last-name\">Shimizu (JPN) 7-6(5) 6-4<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Find your way to play:<\/strong>\u00a0Visit\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/play.tennis.com.au\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">play.tennis.com.au<\/a>\u00a0to get out on court and have some fun!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Omar Jasika (Vic) claimed the singles title at the Burnie International 1 event on Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6373,"featured_media":37068,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37067","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\/37067","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=37067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37067\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}