{"id":11846,"date":"2017-02-26T14:06:03","date_gmt":"2017-02-26T06:06:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/?p=11846"},"modified":"2017-03-20T14:03:40","modified_gmt":"2017-03-20T06:03:40","slug":"sixteen-year-old-destanee-aiava-storms-to-maiden-pro-tour-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/news\/2017\/02\/26\/sixteen-year-old-destanee-aiava-storms-to-maiden-pro-tour-victory","title":{"rendered":"Sixteen year old Destanee Aiava storms to maiden Pro Tour victory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aussie teen <strong>Destanee Aiava<\/strong> (AUS) has taken out her maiden Women&#8217;s Pro Tour Title today, winning the Perth Tennis International #2. The young gun stormed to victory 6-1, 6-1 against fourth seed <strong>Viktoria Kuzmova<\/strong> (SVK) in just 57 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Today\u2019s victory will see the sixteen year old take home valuable world ranking points and a share of US$25K in prize money.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This caps off\u00a0 a dream start to 2017 for Aiava, who not only secured a wildcard into the Australian Open, she also became the first player born in the 2000s to win a WTA main draw match, after upsetting Betthanie Mattek-Sands in three sets at the Brisbane International.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Aiava will continue her Pro Tour journey as she makes her way to South Australia for the Clare Valley Tennis International.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Perth Tennis International is part of the Australian Pro Tour, a series of professional tennis events that bridge junior events and the ATP\/WTA Tour, providing an opportunity for players to earn their first world ranking points and a share of US$25K in prize money.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>For more information about the Australian Pro Tour, Tennis Australia or the players visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\">www.tennis.com.au<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Live scoring continues through <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/protour\/scores\">www.tennis.com.au\/protour\/scores<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Live streaming is also available through:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/tournaments\/pro-tournaments\/australian-pro-tour\">http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/tournaments\/pro-tournaments\/australian-pro-tour<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>For Australian Pro Tour updates follow @oztennisresults on Twitter and for all tennis news follow @tennisaustralia or like us on Facebook.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aussie teen Destanee Aiava (AUS) has taken out her maiden Women&#8217;s Pro Tour Title today, winning the Perth Tennis International #2. The young gun stormed to victory 6-1, 6-1 against fourth seed Viktoria Kuzmova (SVK) in just 57 minutes. &nbsp; Today\u2019s victory will see the sixteen year old take home valuable world ranking points and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5812,"featured_media":11847,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5812"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11846\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}