{"id":5360,"date":"2013-01-15T15:40:44","date_gmt":"2013-01-15T07:40:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/?p=5360"},"modified":"2013-01-15T15:40:44","modified_gmt":"2013-01-15T07:40:44","slug":"tomic-among-seven-aussies-in-action-on-day-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/news\/2013\/01\/15\/tomic-among-seven-aussies-in-action-on-day-two","title":{"rendered":"Tomic among seven Aussies in action on day two"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/news\/2013\/01\/15\/tomic-among-seven-aussies-in-action-on-day-two\/attachment\/tomicday2ao-460x306\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5361\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5361\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/files\/2013\/01\/TomicDay2AO-460x306-410x272.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"410\" height=\"272\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bernard Tomic\u2019s pressure load just got much bigger.<\/p>\n<p>With eight Australians \u2013 including Lleyton Hewitt \u2013 frogmarched out of the Australian Open on day one, Tomic becomes the nation\u2019s spearhead in first round action on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Tomic, who won his maiden title at the Sydney International last week, plays Argentine Leonardo Mayer in the night match at Rod Laver Arena.<\/p>\n<p>And his expectations grew after Hewitt\u2019s Monday night first round exit in straight sets to eighth seed Janko Tipsarevic.<\/p>\n<p>Tomic is among seven Australians in action on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>But whatever the Gold Coast 20-year-old\u2019s fate, there will be at least one Australian joining Monday\u2019s only local winner, Sam Stosur, in the second round.<\/p>\n<p>Sydney 19-year-old James Duckworth takes on junior Wimbledon winner Ben Mitchell in a first round men\u2019s match, and one has to win.<\/p>\n<p>Both are coached by Australian Brent Larkham, who believes the winner must then take full advantage of their leap into the next round.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn some ways, it\u2019s extremely disappointing that one of them will be out,\u201d Larkham said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut it\u2019s also a great opportunity for one of them to go further in the tournament than just the second round. They\u2019ve got to be looking bigger than that.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhoever wins can\u2019t just be satisfied with winning one match.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Australia\u2019s No.2 ranked male player, Marinko Matosevic, plays Croatian 12th seed Marin Cilic.<\/p>\n<p>Other Australians in action are John-Patrick Smith against Portugal\u2019s Joao Sousa and wildcard Luke Saville taking on Japan\u2019s Go Soeda.<\/p>\n<p>In the women\u2019s singles, Jarmila Gajdosova meets Belgian 20th seed Yanina Wickmayer in the night session.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bernard Tomic\u2019s pressure load just got much bigger. With eight Australians \u2013 including Lleyton Hewitt \u2013 frogmarched out of the Australian Open on day one, Tomic becomes the nation\u2019s spearhead in first round action on Tuesday. Tomic, who won his maiden title at the Sydney International last week, plays Argentine Leonardo Mayer in the night [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5894,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5360","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\/5894"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5360\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}