{"id":21040,"date":"2025-06-17T09:35:23","date_gmt":"2025-06-17T01:35:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/?p=21040"},"modified":"2025-06-17T09:38:06","modified_gmt":"2025-06-17T01:38:06","slug":"schoolkate-triumphant-in-ilkley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/news\/2025\/06\/17\/schoolkate-triumphant-in-ilkley","title":{"rendered":"Schoolkate triumphant in Ilkley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Tristan Schoolkate\u2019s second ATP Challenger crown of 2025 places him on the verge of the top 100, with the West Australian rising to a career-best world No.106 in the live rankings.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Tristian Schoolkate kickstarted his grasscourt season with a bang after he emerged victorious at the Ilkley Challenger in Great Britain.<\/p>\n<p>Despite losing a tense first-set tiebreak, the 23-year-old rallied to defeat local Jack Pinnington Jones 6-7(8) 6-4 6-3.<\/p>\n<p>This was the recurring theme for Schoolkate throughout the week, as he recorded his fourth come-from-behind victory of the tournament.<\/p>\n<p>Schoolkate\u2019s second ATP Challenger crown of 2025 places him on the verge of the top 100; as the live ATP rankings stand, Schoolkate sits at a career-high ranking of world No.106.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe level is so close and you can see that week in, week out,\u201d Schoolkate told\u00a0<em>atptour.com<\/em>\u00a0about how he hopes his consistency on the Challenger circuit can translate to tour level.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I started playing Challengers, I remember seeing [Tallon] Griekspoor and [Jack] Draper; they went on a tear on the Challenger Tour, and sure enough, now they\u2019ve cemented themselves right at the top of the game.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tristan Schoolkate\u2019s second ATP Challenger crown of 2025 places him on the verge of the top 100, with the West Australian rising to a career-best world No.106 in the live rankings. Tristian Schoolkate kickstarted his grasscourt season with a bang after he emerged victorious at the Ilkley Challenger in Great Britain. Despite losing a tense [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6414,"featured_media":21041,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21040","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\/21040","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\/6414"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21040\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}