{"id":21550,"date":"2026-03-03T08:22:20","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T00:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/?p=21550"},"modified":"2026-03-03T08:28:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T00:28:08","slug":"hunter-rides-high-in-austin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/news\/2026\/03\/03\/hunter-rides-high-in-austin","title":{"rendered":"Hunter rides high in Austin"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<p><strong>Storm Hunter claimed her first doubles title of 2026 after partnering with Taylor Townsend to win the Austin 250 event.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Twelve months after making her return from a ruptured Achilles in Austin, Storm Hunter emerged as the women\u2019s doubles champion of the WTA 250 event.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Hunter, with top-10 player Taylor Townsend, was dominant throughout the week, racing to the title without conceding a set.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The 31-year-old earned the 10th WTA doubles title of her career and her first since winning Wuhan with Katerina Siniakova last October.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Hunter\u2019s triumph will see her move to her highest doubles ranking since returning from injury, improving to world No.21. She also became Australia\u2019s highest-ranked women\u2019s doubles player.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"aem-Grid aem-Grid--12 aem-Grid--default--12 \">\n<div class=\"embed aem-GridColumn aem-GridColumn--default--12\">\n<div id=\"embed-8ef23e3a55\" class=\"cmp-embed\" data-cmp-data-layer=\"{&quot;embed-8ef23e3a55&quot;:{&quot;@type&quot;:&quot;tennisaustralia\/components\/embed&quot;}}\">\n<div class=\"cfm-source\">\n<div class=\"cfm-source__container\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Storm Hunter claimed her first doubles title of 2026 after partnering with Taylor Townsend to win the Austin 250 event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6414,"featured_media":21551,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21550","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\/21550","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=21550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21550\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}