{"id":18880,"date":"2023-10-03T00:42:25","date_gmt":"2023-10-02T16:42:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/?p=18880"},"modified":"2023-12-11T04:55:04","modified_gmt":"2023-12-10T20:55:04","slug":"wa-players-perform-well-at-perth-pro-tour-events","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/news\/2023\/10\/03\/wa-players-perform-well-at-perth-pro-tour-events","title":{"rendered":"WA Players Perform Well at Perth Pro Tour Events"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some of WA\u2019s best young talent was on show at the State Tennis Centre as Perth hosted back-to-back ITF Pro Tour Events.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

WA\u2019s Taylah Preston was most dominant over the two-week period. After losing to fellow West Australian Talia Gibson in the Pro Tour #1 Semi Final, Taylah claimed her second ITF 25 singles title winning the Perth pro Tour #2. This makes Preston, who has now won 18 of her past 22 matches on the pro circuit, the youngest Australian to win multiple titles at this level in seven years.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Preston did not drop a set and defeated three higher-ranked opponents to go on to claim her second career ITF title. Preston also finished runner-up in doubles alongside Talia Gibson.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Thank you to the Department of Local Government, Sport and Cultural Industries.<\/p>\n

Other WA players:\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Talia Gibson\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

The 19-year-old finished runner-up in both singles events at the ITF 25 tournaments in Perth. It was Gibson\u2019s second consecutive finals appearance on the Australian Pro Tour. Gibson was also a doubles finalist with Taylah Preston.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Maddison Inglis\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Seeded at 3, Inglis made it to the Pro Tour #2 quarter final, losing to the eventual winner Taylah Preston. Inglis however, won both doubles events with partner Destanee Aiava.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Lily Fairclough\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

The 18-year-old wildcard from WA won both her first round matches but lost in the 2<\/span>nd<\/span> round of the Pro Tour #1 to Melisa Ercan and Naho Sato in the Pro Tour #2.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Jessie Culley\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Part of last season’s Women\u2019s State League team, Culley earned a spot in both events advancing through the qualifying rounds. Culley lost in the first round of the Pro Tour #1 in a tight three set match to Monique Barry and lost in the first round of the Pro Tour #2 to Shrivalli Bhamidipaty.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Ella Nurkic<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Nurkic featured in the women\u2019s doubles event with partner Jessie Culley. The pair won the first round of doubles in both events but lost in the quarter finals \u2013 losing to eventual winners Maddison Inglis and Destanee Aiava.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Some of WA\u2019s best young talent was on show at the State Tennis Centre as Perth hosted back-to-back ITF Pro Tour Events.\u00a0 WA\u2019s Taylah Preston was most dominant over the two-week period. After losing to fellow West Australian Talia Gibson in the Pro Tour #1 Semi Final, Taylah claimed her second ITF 25 singles title […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6359,"featured_media":18881,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18880","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\/18880","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=18880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18880\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}