{"id":5430,"date":"2013-01-24T13:27:35","date_gmt":"2013-01-24T05:27:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/?p=5430"},"modified":"2013-01-24T13:27:35","modified_gmt":"2013-01-24T05:27:35","slug":"barty-and-dellacqua-storm-into-open-doubles-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/news\/2013\/01\/24\/barty-and-dellacqua-storm-into-open-doubles-final","title":{"rendered":"Barty and Dellacqua storm into Open doubles final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/news\/2013\/01\/24\/barty-and-dellacqua-storm-into-open-doubles-final\/attachment\/bartydellacqua2aodsf1-460x306\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5431\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5431\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/files\/2013\/01\/BartyDellacqua2AODSF1-460x306-410x272.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"410\" height=\"272\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ashleigh Barty and Casey Dellacqua have become the first all-Australian duo through to the Australian Open women\u2019s doubles final since 1979.<\/p>\n<p>The unseeded pair made quick work of American Varvara Lepchenko and China\u2019s Zheng Saisai to win their semifinal 6-2 6-4 in the early hours of Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>It booked them a place in Friday\u2019s final against Italian top seeds Sara Errani and Roberta Vinci.<\/p>\n<p>Errani and Vinci won the French Open and US Open together last year and were the runners-up in last year\u2019s Australian Open.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt feels awesome. It doesn\u2019t feel real yet to me,\u201d Dellacqua said of reaching the final.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s going to take a while for the adrenaline to settle down and to take it all in.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLuckily we have a day off tomorrow to prepare for the final because obviously we still have one more match to play and we\u2019ve got to finish this tournament.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut right now it feels amazing to be in the final.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sixteen-year-old Barty said she didn\u2019t expect to get to sleep in a hurry given the rush.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m so pumped. It\u2019s great to have a reward like this. After having a good start to the summer, this is just icing on the cake,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>It will be the first Grand Slam final for the teenager.<\/p>\n<p>Dellacqua, 27, won the 2011 French Open mixed doubles title with American Scott Lipsky and made the 2008 French Open women\u2019s doubles final with Italian Francesca Schiavone but said this experience was special.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m just so buzzed about this one, I think because it\u2019s so unexpected,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>While Barty and Dellacqua have achieved nowhere near as much together as Errani and Vinci, they have won a doubles title together, at Toyota, Japan late last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ashleigh Barty and Casey Dellacqua have become the first all-Australian duo through to the Australian Open women\u2019s doubles final since 1979. The unseeded pair made quick work of American Varvara Lepchenko and China\u2019s Zheng Saisai to win their semifinal 6-2 6-4 in the early hours of Thursday. It booked them a place in Friday\u2019s final [&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-5430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5430","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=5430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5430\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}