{"id":19120,"date":"2023-12-03T23:59:30","date_gmt":"2023-12-03T15:59:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/?p=19120"},"modified":"2023-12-04T00:00:23","modified_gmt":"2023-12-03T16:00:23","slug":"talia-gibson-secures-biggest-singles-title-on-australian-pro-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/news\/2023\/12\/03\/talia-gibson-secures-biggest-singles-title-on-australian-pro-tour","title":{"rendered":"Talia Gibson Secures Biggest Singles Title on Australian Pro Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"

The future looks bright for Australian tennis, with three teenage talents scooping the women’s titles at the Gold Coast Tennis International this week.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Perth teen Talia Gibson has finished her 2023 season on a high, recording a career-best singles result at an Australian Pro Tour event on the Gold Coast.<\/p>\n

The 19-year-old Gibson stunned hometown favourite and world No.131 Olivia Gadecki 7-5 6-2 in the Gold Coast Tennis International women\u2019s singles final.<\/p>\n

This is Gibson\u2019s first top-150 victory and caps a brilliant week for the world No.329, who blitzed through the field to secure her maiden ITF 60 singles title without conceding a set.<\/p>\n

It is Gibson\u2019s fourth career ITF singles title and her first since July 2022.<\/p>\n

Teenage talents Roisin Gilheany and Maya Joint were crowned the women\u2019s doubles champions, after overcoming Melisa Ercan and Alicia Smith 7-6(3) 6-1 in an all-Australian final.<\/p>\n

This is the first ITF doubles title for both 18-year-old Gilheany and 17-year-old Joint.<\/p>\n

Japan\u2019s Makoto Ochi won the ITF 25 men\u2019s singles title, beating Australian Matthew Dellavedova in the final.<\/p>\n

This ended an impressive run for 23-year-old Dellavedova, who was contesting the biggest singles final of his career.<\/p>\n

In the men\u2019s doubles competition, Australia\u2019s Thomas Fancutt and his partner, New Zealand\u2019s Ajeet Rai, continued their good form to secure their third Australian Pro Tour title of the season as a team.<\/p>\n

The top seeds notched their 12th consecutive victory, and seventh in straight sets, by defeating Aussie duo Blake Bayldon and Kody Pearson 7-5 7-6(4) in the final.<\/p>\n

This is 28-year-old Fancutt\u2019s fifth ITF doubles title for 2023.<\/p>\n

The Australian Pro Tour resumes later this month, with the Canberra International running from 31 December to 6 January.<\/p>\n

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Gold Coast Tennis International finals<\/strong><\/p>\n

Women\u2019s singles: Talia Gibson (AUS) d [2] Olivia Gadecki (AUS) 7-5 6-2<\/p>\n

Men\u2019s singles: [7] Makoto Ochi (JPN) d [8] Matthew Dellavedova (AUS) 6-4 6-3<\/p>\n

Women\u2019s doubles: Roisin Gilheany (AUS)\/Maya Joint (AUS) d Melisa Ercan (AUS)\/Alicia Smith (AUS) 7-6(3) 6-1<\/p>\n

Men\u2019s doubles: [1] Thomas Fancutt (AUS)\/Ajeet Rai (NZL) d [2] Blake Bayldon (AUS)\/Kody Pearson (AUS) 7-5 7-6(4)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The future looks bright for Australian tennis, with three teenage talents scooping the women’s titles at the Gold Coast Tennis International this week. Perth teen Talia Gibson has finished her 2023 season on a high, recording a career-best singles result at an Australian Pro Tour event on the Gold Coast. The 19-year-old Gibson stunned hometown […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6359,"featured_media":19121,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19120","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\/19120","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=19120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19120\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}