{"id":19347,"date":"2024-02-25T23:48:11","date_gmt":"2024-02-25T15:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/?p=19347"},"modified":"2024-02-25T23:48:48","modified_gmt":"2024-02-25T15:48:48","slug":"storm-hunter-crowned-doubles-champion-in-dubai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/news\/2024\/02\/25\/storm-hunter-crowned-doubles-champion-in-dubai","title":{"rendered":"Storm Hunter Crowned Doubles Champion in Dubai"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Storm Hunter teamed with Czech Katerina Siniakova to win a historic doubles final in Dubai.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The fourth-seeded duo secured the title with a 6-4 6-2 triumph against Australian Ellen Perez and her American partner Nicole Melichar-Martinez.<\/p>\n<p>It was the first WTA 1000 doubles final featuring opposing Australian players,\u00a0since the introduction of these tournaments in 2009.<\/p>\n<p>World No.3 Hunter and Siniakova handled the moment best, not losing a service game across the 75-minute championship match.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe played the tight moments really well and made them have to come up with something,\u201d Hunter said.<\/p>\n<p>It caps a perfect week for Hunter and Siniakova, who were contesting their third final in just their fourth tournament together.<\/p>\n<p>This was their most dominant performance yet, scooping the title without conceding a set.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think we served and returned really well,\u201d said the 29-year-old Hunter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe had really tough opponents throughout the tournament who put net pressure on, they came in and were super aggressive at the net. So we had to back ourselves, especially from the back, and when we were at the net to take our chances.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf we missed the down-the-line shots, we didn\u2019t get too negative or passive, we went for it and it payed off.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This is Hunter\u2019s eighth career WTA doubles title and her fourth at WTA 1000 level.<\/p>\n<p>For world No.15 Perez, it marks her eighth consecutive loss in a WTA doubles final alongside Melichar-Martinez.<\/p>\n<p>However, there is a silver lining for the 28-year-old Australian, who is projected to return to the world\u2019s top 10 thanks to her efforts this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Storm Hunter teamed with Czech Katerina Siniakova to win a historic doubles final in Dubai. The fourth-seeded duo secured the title with a 6-4 6-2 triumph against Australian Ellen Perez and her American partner Nicole Melichar-Martinez. It was the first WTA 1000 doubles final featuring opposing Australian players,\u00a0since the introduction of these tournaments in 2009. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6359,"featured_media":19348,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19347","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\/19347","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=19347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19347\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}