{"id":21687,"date":"2026-04-28T07:42:03","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T23:42:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/?p=21687"},"modified":"2026-04-28T08:18:40","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T00:18:40","slug":"preston-rides-high-with-tokyo-crown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/news\/2026\/04\/28\/preston-rides-high-with-tokyo-crown","title":{"rendered":"Preston rides high with Tokyo crown"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Amid a purple patch, Taylah Preston enjoyed her biggest singles title to date, winning an ITF W100 event in Tokyo.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Taylah Preston\u2019s breakout season is going from strength to strength after she won the biggest singles title of her career in Tokyo.<\/p>\n<p>The 20-year-old secured an ITF W100 crown, becoming just the third Australian since 2017 \u2013 joining Maddison Inglis in April 2024 and Astra Sharma in May 2025 \u2013 to claim a title of that calibre.<\/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-c4cbc6df34\" class=\"cmp-embed\" data-cmp-data-layer=\"{&quot;embed-c4cbc6df34&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>Preston prevailed in emphatic fashion, defeating Harriet Dart in the quarterfinals, before downing top seed Lanlana Tararudee 6-1 4-6 6-4 in the final.<\/p>\n<p>Now coached by Brett Hunter at the National Tennis Academy in Brisbane, the West Australian has made significant progress in 2026.<\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/fan-zone\/news\/2026\/01\/20\/preston-powers-to-first-grand-slam-match-win-at-australian-open\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&gt; READ: Preston powers to first Grand Slam match win at AO 2026<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>She reached the Hobart International semifinals in January and recorded her first Grand Slam singles triumph at AO 2026. Preston boasts a 21-10 record this year.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amid a purple patch, Taylah Preston enjoyed her biggest singles title to date, winning an ITF W100 event in Tokyo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6414,"featured_media":21688,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21687","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\/21687","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=21687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21687\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}