{"id":19275,"date":"2024-01-30T01:31:55","date_gmt":"2024-01-29T17:31:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/?p=19275"},"modified":"2024-01-30T01:32:13","modified_gmt":"2024-01-29T17:32:13","slug":"ranking-movers-west-aussies-rewarded-for-efforts-at-australian-open-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/news\/2024\/01\/30\/ranking-movers-west-aussies-rewarded-for-efforts-at-australian-open-2024","title":{"rendered":"Ranking Movers: West Aussies rewarded for Efforts at Australian Open 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>WA\u2019s Matt Ebden and Storm Hunter are among the Aussies on the rise in the latest world rankings.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span>Storm Hunter is the biggest mover in the latest WTA Tour women\u2019s singles rankings.<\/span><span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The 29-year-old rises 51 spots to world No.129 after reaching the Australian Open third round as a qualifier.<\/span><span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In the women\u2019s doubles, Hunter\u2019s 12-week reign as world No. 1 ends. Despite reaching the Australian Open semifinals in a career-best run, Hunter slips two places to world No.3.<\/span><span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Newly crowned Australian Open men&#8217;s doubles champion Matt Ebden rises to a career-high world No.2 in the latest ATP Tour doubles rankings.<\/span><span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The 36-year-old\u00a0becomes the highest-ranked Australian men\u2019s doubles player since John Peers in October 2017.<\/span><span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Fellow West Aussies Taylah Preston makes her top-200 debut at world No.199 after debuting in the women\u2019s singles main draw while Astra Sharma climbs one spot to world No. 130.<\/span><span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In the doubles, John Peers drops six spots to world No. 44, Talia Gibson and Astra Sharma drop three and five spots respectfully to world No. 185 and world No. 189 while Maddison Inglis climbs to world No. 203 after advancing 72 spots.<\/span><span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WA\u2019s Matt Ebden and Storm Hunter are among the Aussies on the rise in the latest world rankings.\u00a0 Storm Hunter is the biggest mover in the latest WTA Tour women\u2019s singles rankings.\u00a0 The 29-year-old rises 51 spots to world No.129 after reaching the Australian Open third round as a qualifier.\u00a0 In the women\u2019s doubles, Hunter\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6359,"featured_media":19276,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19275","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\/19275","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=19275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19275\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}