{"id":19691,"date":"2024-06-11T11:11:31","date_gmt":"2024-06-11T03:11:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/?p=19691"},"modified":"2024-06-11T11:17:33","modified_gmt":"2024-06-11T03:17:33","slug":"schoolkate-makes-major-statement-in-atp-level-grasscourt-debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/news\/2024\/06\/11\/schoolkate-makes-major-statement-in-atp-level-grasscourt-debut","title":{"rendered":"Schoolkate Makes Major Statement in ATP-Level Grasscourt Debut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>West Australian Tristan Schoolkate has qualified at an ATP tournament for the first time in his career at a grass-court event in the Netherlands.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Schoolkate is proving why grass is his favourite playing surface at an ATP 250 tournament at\u00a0\u2018s-Hertogenbosch this week.<\/p>\n<p>The 23-year-old Australian, who grew up playing on grass courts in Perth, is competing at a tour-level grass-court tournament for the first time in his career and is already having a major impact.<\/p>\n<p>The world No.186 has defeated two higher-ranked opponents to qualify at an ATP tournament for the first time, securing his main-draw spot with a confident 6-2 6-3 victory against Belgium\u2019s Zizou Bergs in the final qualifying round.<\/p>\n<p>Schoolkate conceded only 15 points on serve and saved all four break points he faced in the 67-minute encounter. At world No.104, Bergs is the highest-ranked opponent that Schoolkate has beaten.<\/p>\n<p>The fast-rising Aussie,\u00a0a winner in 11 of his past 14 matches, now turns his attention to a first-round meeting with American Sebastian Korda.<\/p>\n<p>Schoolkate\u2019s successful qualifying campaign boosts the number of Aussie representatives in the men\u2019s singles draw to seven.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>West Australian Tristan Schoolkate has qualified at an ATP tournament for the first time in his career at a grass-court event in the Netherlands. Schoolkate is proving why grass is his favourite playing surface at an ATP 250 tournament at\u00a0\u2018s-Hertogenbosch this week. The 23-year-old Australian, who grew up playing on grass courts in Perth, is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6359,"featured_media":19692,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19691","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\/19691","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=19691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19691\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}