{"id":19729,"date":"2024-06-26T11:47:01","date_gmt":"2024-06-26T03:47:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/?p=19729"},"modified":"2024-06-26T13:34:37","modified_gmt":"2024-06-26T05:34:37","slug":"record-milestone-results-for-wa-women-in-qualifying-at-wimbledon-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/news\/2024\/06\/26\/record-milestone-results-for-wa-women-in-qualifying-at-wimbledon-2024","title":{"rendered":"Record Milestone Results for WA Women in Qualifying at Wimbledon 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"

WA’s Talia Gibson and Maddison Inglis have progressed to the second round in the Wimbledon 2024 women’s qualifying singles competition.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Talia Gibson, a fellow National Tennis Academy athlete who turned 20 earlier this month, scored the biggest win of her career to progress to the second round.<\/p>\n

The Perth talent\u2019s 6-3 6-1 triumph against Croatian Jana Fett marked her first victory against a top-120 player.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m super stoked,\u201d world No.178 Gibson said after beating an opponent ranked 61 places higher.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m just really happy to be here. It\u2019s my first time playing Wimbledon, so super excited to be through to the next round.\u201d<\/p>\n

Gibson\u2019s victory sets up an all-Australian showdown, with Destanee Aiava awaiting in the second round.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou know, it is what it is,\u201d Gibson said after learning she would face a fellow Aussie in her next match. \u201cIt\u2019s great we\u2019ve both through to the second round.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve played Destanee a couple of times before. She\u2019s got a really great game and it\u2019s going to be especially hard on grass, but I\u2019m looking forward to it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Maddison Inglis also progressed through to the second round with a win of Sara Bejlek (CZE). Inglis won the first set 6-4 before Bejlek retired early in the second set.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, fellow West Aussies Taylah Preston and Astra Sharma could not emulate Gibson’s and Inglis\u2019results, going down in straight sets in the opening round.<\/p>\n

In the men’s qualifying singles, WA’s Tristan Schoolkate succumbed to Damir Dzumhur in a tight two set encounter 6-4, 7-6.<\/p>\n

A total of seven Australian women have progressed to the second round in qualifying, matching the most to reach this stage in 30 years.<\/p>\n

COMING UP\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Women\u2019s qualifying singles, second round\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Talia Gibson (AUS)<\/strong> v Destanee Aiava (AUS)<\/p>\n

[Alt] Maddison Inglis (AUS)<\/strong> v Natalija Stevanovic (SRB)<\/p>\n

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> VIEW: Wimbledon 2024 women\u2019s qualifying singles draw<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

WA’s Talia Gibson and Maddison Inglis have progressed to the second round in the Wimbledon 2024 women’s qualifying singles competition.\u00a0 Talia Gibson, a fellow National Tennis Academy athlete who turned 20 earlier this month, scored the biggest win of her career to progress to the second round. The Perth talent\u2019s 6-3 6-1 triumph against Croatian […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6359,"featured_media":19734,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19729","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\/19729","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=19729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19729\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}