{"id":18172,"date":"2023-01-12T09:46:34","date_gmt":"2023-01-12T01:46:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/?p=18172"},"modified":"2023-01-12T09:51:00","modified_gmt":"2023-01-12T01:51:00","slug":"west-aussie-wildcard-enjoying-career-best-run-in-australian-open-2023-qualifying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/news\/2023\/01\/12\/west-aussie-wildcard-enjoying-career-best-run-in-australian-open-2023-qualifying","title":{"rendered":"West Aussie Wildcard Enjoying Career-best Run in Australian Open 2023 Qualifying"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Tristan Schoolkate, a 21-year-old wildcard from Perth, has advanced to the final round in a Grand Slam qualifying draw for the first time in his career.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Perserverance is paying off for Tristan Schoolkate in the Australian Open 2023 qualifying competition, winning two hard-fought matches to keep his qualifying dreams alive.<\/p>\n<p>The 21-year-old from Perth moved into the final round with a 6-7(4) 6-4 7-5 victory against world No.146 Raul Brancaccio this evening at Melbourne Park.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was a tricky one today, but I\u2019m glad I got through,\u201d said Schoolkate after defeating the 25-year-old Italian.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was pretty composed. I stayed clear with what I wanted to do and served well on some big moments to save a couple of break points late in the third. I took my chances, which really helped.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Schoolkate struck 22 aces and 54 winners to record the first top-150 win of his career.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s not much in these matches,\u201d he said. \u201cBeing young, you\u2019re playing guys who are older and more experienced. It often comes down to a couple of points here and there, and I\u2019m glad I\u2019m coming out on top of those at the moment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Schoolkate, who is currently ranked at a career-high world No.365, is contesting Australian Open qualifying for the fourth time. His previous best result was a second-round appearance in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think I\u2019m definitely improving, I feel fitter and stronger,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He will face 32-year-old German Jan-Lennard Struff, a former world No.29, in the final round tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m in the last round, so I\u2019m going to give it my all and hopefully I can go one more,\u201d Schoolkate said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tristan Schoolkate, a 21-year-old wildcard from Perth, has advanced to the final round in a Grand Slam qualifying draw for the first time in his career. Perserverance is paying off for Tristan Schoolkate in the Australian Open 2023 qualifying competition, winning two hard-fought matches to keep his qualifying dreams alive. The 21-year-old from Perth moved [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6359,"featured_media":18173,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18172","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\/18172","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\/6359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18172\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}