{"id":19541,"date":"2024-05-21T15:26:01","date_gmt":"2024-05-21T07:26:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/?p=19541"},"modified":"2024-05-21T15:27:11","modified_gmt":"2024-05-21T07:27:11","slug":"preston-and-sharma-off-to-a-promosing-start-in-qualifying-at-roland-garros-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/news\/2024\/05\/21\/preston-and-sharma-off-to-a-promosing-start-in-qualifying-at-roland-garros-2024","title":{"rendered":"Preston and Sharma off to a Promising Start in Qualifying at Roland Garros 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>West Australians Taylah Preston and Astra Sharma are through to the 2nd round of qualifying after scoring first-round qualifying wins at Roland Garros 2024.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Taylah Preston made a dream pro-level debut in Paris, powering to a 6-2 6-4 victory against Croatian Tara Wurth.<\/p>\n<p>The 21-year-old Wurth lists clay as her favourite surface and won an ITF 75 tournament in Croatia last week, dropping only a single set in an impressive run.<\/p>\n<p>However, the less experienced Preston had her measure in their first-round clash.<\/p>\n<p>The highly touted 18-year-old from Perth fired 18 winners to 12, helping her wrap up victory in 86 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>World No.137 Preston will face a fellow debutante, 18-year-old Alexandra Eala from the Philippines,\u00a0in the next round.<\/p>\n<p>Astra Sharma was tested early in her opening-round meeting with German Ella Seidel, however, finished strongly to run out a 2-6 7-6(4) 6-2 victor.<\/p>\n<p>The 28-year-old from Perth struck six aces, including three in the deciding set, in the one-hour and 54-minute encounter.<\/p>\n<p>This is world No.130 Sharma\u2019s first win at Roland Garros since 2021, when she reached the second round as a main-draw wildcard.<\/p>\n<p>Sharma next faces Hungarian Timea Babos, a former world No.25 and a two-time Roland Garros doubles champion.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortanutely fellow West Aussie Talia Gibson failed to make it to the 2nd round, succumbing to\u00a0Elena-Gabriela Ruse (ROU) 6-1, 6-1.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rolandgarros.com\/en-us\/results\/QD?round=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&gt; VIEW: Roland Garros 2024 women\u2019s qualifying singles draw<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rolandgarros.com\/en-us\/results\/QM?round=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&gt; VIEW: Roland Garros 2024 men\u2019s qualifying singles draw<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>West Australians Taylah Preston and Astra Sharma are through to the 2nd round of qualifying after scoring first-round qualifying wins at Roland Garros 2024. Taylah Preston made a dream pro-level debut in Paris, powering to a 6-2 6-4 victory against Croatian Tara Wurth. The 21-year-old Wurth lists clay as her favourite surface and won an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6359,"featured_media":19542,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19541","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\/19541","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=19541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19541\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}