{"id":21764,"date":"2026-06-24T10:38:55","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T02:38:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/?p=21764"},"modified":"2026-06-24T10:39:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T02:39:16","slug":"hunter-schoolkate-successfully-launch-qualifying-campaigns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/news\/2026\/06\/24\/hunter-schoolkate-successfully-launch-qualifying-campaigns","title":{"rendered":"Hunter &amp; Schoolkate Successfully Launch Qualifying Campaigns"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<p><strong>Storm Hunter has kept her Wimbledon 2026 main-draw hopes alive after recording a victory in the opening qualifying matches at Roehampton on Tuesday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Hunter joins fellow West Aussie Tristan Schoolkate in the second round after his win on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Schoolkate defeated local wildcard Johannus Monday 7-5 6-3 and will next meet another Briton, Dan Evans, the 36-year-old former world No.21 attempting to play in his final Wimbledon main draw.<\/p>\n<p>In her first Wimbledon qualifying match since 2023, Hunter overcame Belgian Sofia Costoulas 7-5 6-4.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The 31-year-old was aggressive at the net, winning 13 points to Costoulas\u2019s three in the 82-minute encounter.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Targeting a second main-draw appearance at the All England Club., Hunter next faces a meeting with Aliaksandra Sasnovich.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Should Hunter progress to that stage, Hunter would face US Open 2019 champion Bianca Andreescu in the final qualifying round.<\/p>\n<p>In other results, Taylah Preston and Maddison Inglis were unable to win their opening matches.<\/p>\n<p>Preston and Inglis fell in tight three-set battles to Italian opponents, losing to Tyla Caterina Grant and Lucia Bronzetti respectively.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>UPCOMING MATCHES:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Storm Hunter (AUS)<\/strong>\u00a0v Aliaksandra Sasnovich \u2013 Fourth match, Court 5<\/p>\n<p><strong>[28] Tristan Schoolkate (AUS)<\/strong>\u00a0d Dan Evans (GBR) \u2013 First match, Show Court 1<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Storm Hunter has kept her Wimbledon 2026 main-draw hopes alive after recording a victory in the opening qualifying matches at Roehampton on Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6359,"featured_media":21765,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21764","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\/21764","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\/6359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21764\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}