{"id":17658,"date":"2022-06-22T09:31:46","date_gmt":"2022-06-22T01:31:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/?p=17658"},"modified":"2022-06-23T10:55:10","modified_gmt":"2022-06-23T02:55:10","slug":"three-wa-players-continue-their-streak-at-wimbledon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/news\/2022\/06\/22\/three-wa-players-continue-their-streak-at-wimbledon","title":{"rendered":"Three WA players continue their streak at Wimbledon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Wimbledon 2022 qualifying competition continues today, with three West Australians set to compete in second-round singles matches.<\/p>\n<p>Astra Sharma, Maddison Inglis and Storm Sanders are among 10 Australian contenders competing in Wimbledon 2022 second-round qualifying matches today. Play begins at Roehampton in London from 6.00pm AWST.<\/p>\n<p><em>Aussies in action:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>[10] Astra Sharma (AUS)\u00a0<\/strong>v Irene Burillo Escorihuela (ESP)<br \/>\n<em>Ladies\u2019 qualifying singles, second round, Court 6, third match<br \/>\n<\/em>Sharma is looking to extend her streak of 13 consecutive Grand Slam main draw appearances. To do so, the world No.136 needs to qualify at Wimbledon. The athletic 26-year-old, who is contesting only her ninth professional event on grass, made a promising start to her campaign. She now faces 24-year-old Spaniard and world No.315 Burillo Escorihuela.<br \/>\n<em>Head-to-head record: First career meeting<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>[5] Maddison Inglis (AUS)\u00a0<\/strong>v Mandy Minella (LUX)<br \/>\n<em>Ladies\u2019 qualifying singles, second round, Court 5, fourth match<br \/>\n<\/em>World No.129 Inglis has matched her career-best result at Wimbledon, advancing to the second round in qualifying for the second year in a row. The 24-year-old from Perth now faces Minella, a mother of two currently ranked No.260 and contesting the final tournament of her career. The 36-year-old from Luxembourg has been ranked as high as world No.66.<br \/>\n<em>Head-to-head record: First career meeting<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Storm Sanders (AUS)\u00a0<\/strong>v [3] Mirjam Bjorklund (SWE)<br \/>\n<em>Ladies\u2019 qualifying singles, second round, Court 11, fourth match<br \/>\n<\/em>Sanders, who is ranked No.222 in singles and No.12 in doubles, is aiming to progress to the final qualifying round at Wimbledon for the second year in a row. However, standing in the 27-year-old Australian\u2019s way is world No.123 Bjorklund. The third-seeded Swede, who is the partner of world No.16 Denis Shapovalov, is enjoying a career-best season.<br \/>\n<em>Head-to-head record: First career meeting<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wimbledon.com\/en_GB\/scores\/schedule\/schedule3.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">VIEW: Full Wimbledon 2022 qualifying day three order of play<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wimbledon.com\/en_GB\/draws\/index.html?event=QS\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">VIEW: Wimbledon 2022 gentlemen\u2019s qualifying singles draw<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wimbledon.com\/en_GB\/draws\/index.html?event=RS\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">VIEW: Wimbledon 2022 ladies\u2019 qualifying singles draw<\/a><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WA players Astra Sharma, Maddison Inglis and Storm Sanders are among 10 Australian contenders competing in Wimbledon 2022 second-round qualifying matches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6328,"featured_media":17659,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17658","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\/17658","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\/6328"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17658\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}