{"id":21211,"date":"2025-09-10T15:37:40","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T07:37:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/?p=21211"},"modified":"2025-09-12T14:28:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T06:28:09","slug":"storm-rises-hunter-stuns-siniakova-in-successful-singles-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/news\/2025\/09\/10\/storm-rises-hunter-stuns-siniakova-in-successful-singles-return","title":{"rendered":"Storm rises: Hunter stuns Siniakova in successful singles return"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Storm Hunter defeats world No.78 Katerina Siniakova in a confidence-boosting singles win at the WTA 500 tournament in Guadalajara.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Storm Hunter has staged a significant upset in her return to singles competition at the WTA 500 tournament in Guadalajara, with the Australian digging deep to defeat world No.78 Katerina Siniakova.<\/p>\n<p>Hunter, who is ranked outside the world\u2019s top 1000 in singles as she continues a comeback from injury, fought for just under two-and-a-half hours to record the 7-6(4) 4-6 6-3 victory.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><\/div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It marks Hunter\u2019s first win in a completed match against a top-100 opponent since March 2024, when she upstaged Alize Cornet in a successful qualifying campaign in Miami.<\/p>\n<p>Hunter was subsequently sidelined for the best part of a year after rupturing her Achilles tendon at the Billie Jean King Cup tie in April 2024.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/news\/2025\/09\/09\/rankings-movers-hon-reaches-career-best-after-us-open\">READ: Priscilla Hon peaks at new career high after US Open<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The 31-year-old Hunter, a former doubles world No.1, contested her first WTA tournament alongside American Caroline Dolehide at Austin in March this year.<\/p>\n<p>She has contested only a handful of singles tournaments this season. Hunter most recently recorded back-to-back in a WTA main draw as a qualifier at Australian Open 2024.<\/p>\n<p>The 31-year-old lefthander, a wildcard recipient in Guadalajara, will aim to maintain her winning momentum when she next faces 86th-ranked Colombian Emiliana Arango.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Hunter\u2019s doubles campaign, in which she paired with America\u2019s Desirae Krawczyk, ended with a loss to top seeds Irina Kromacheva and Nicole Melichar-Martinez in the first round.<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Storm Hunter defeats world No.78 Katerina Siniakova in a confidence-boosting singles win at the WTA 500 tournament in Guadalajara.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6414,"featured_media":21212,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21211","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\/21211","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=21211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21211\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}