{"id":21240,"date":"2025-09-22T13:48:36","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T05:48:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/?p=21240"},"modified":"2025-09-25T14:55:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T06:55:12","slug":"preston-claims-wagga-wagga-itf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/news\/2025\/09\/22\/preston-claims-wagga-wagga-itf","title":{"rendered":"Preston Claims Wagga Wagga ITF"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"elementToProof\">Western Australian Taylah Preston brought Katie Swan\u2019s incredible winning run to an end with a major upset in the final of the Wagga Wagga Tennis International #2 on Sunday.<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div class=\"elementToProof\">Ending a fantastic fortnight in which Tennis NSW ran ITF events in regional NSW centres for the first time, 19-year-old Preston prevented Swan from winning every match throughout the two-week Wagga Wagga swing in a gripping decider.<br \/><br \/><\/div>\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-27375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nsw\/files\/2025\/09\/Taylah.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"400\" \/><\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div class=\"elementToProof\">Despite entering the tournament as the second seed compared to Swan at No.4, Preston was a massive underdog having been soundly beaten in the final of the Wagga Wagga Tennis International #1 last week and because of Swan\u2019s imperious form.<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div class=\"elementToProof\">The Great Britain star hadn\u2019t dropped a set in all nine matches in the NSW Riverina.<\/div>\n<div class=\"elementToProof\">But Preston pounced early and then held on in an epic second set tiebreaker for a 6-4, 7-5(5) win at Jim Elphick Tennis Centre.<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div class=\"elementToProof\">It was Preston\u2019s first title in more than two years as she looks to return to the main draw of grand slams having played in both the Australian Open and US Open last year.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Western Australian Taylah Preston brought Katie Swan\u2019s incredible winning run to an end with a major upset in the final of the Wagga Wagga Tennis International #2 on Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6414,"featured_media":21242,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21240","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\/21240","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=21240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21240\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}