{"id":5599,"date":"2013-02-11T10:23:40","date_gmt":"2013-02-11T02:23:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/?p=5599"},"modified":"2013-02-11T10:23:40","modified_gmt":"2013-02-11T02:23:40","slug":"pro-tour-titles-for-barton-and-sanders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/news\/2013\/02\/11\/pro-tour-titles-for-barton-and-sanders","title":{"rendered":"Pro Tour titles for Barton and Sanders"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Matthew Barton (Collaroy, NSW) has won his first ATP Challenger title at the $50,000 Charles Sturt Adelaide International in West Lakes, South Australia, while Storm Sanders (Safety Bay, WA) has claimed her first ITF tournament win at the $25,000 Launceston Tennis International in Tasmania at the weekend.<\/p>\n

Twenty-one-year-old Barton clinched his title with a 6-2 6-3 win over Brit James Ward at the inaugural West Lakes Challenger event, a victory that will likely see his ranking climb from No. 345 to inside the world\u2019s top 250.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s so exciting, I\u2019m over the moon and really looking forward to the future,\u201d Barton said after his win.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe scoreline sounds pretty easy but James is a great player, we played last year in a really tight match and he got me then so it\u2019s great to get one back. I played a great match from the very start, I managed to get on top of him early in the second set and it was just a perfect match for me.\u201d<\/p>\n

Barton showed remarkable composure in his first ATP Challenger final, putting Ward on the back foot from the outset with his punishing first serve and lethal forehand.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think my ranking will be inside 250 now so I can play Grand Slam qualifying. I\u2019m looking forward to that and hopefully it\u2019s a really good year for me,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Earlier in the week Barton scored wins over Italian No. 8 seed Alessandro Giannessi (4-3 ret.), local hope Luke Saville (Barmera, SA, 6-2 6-2), Frenchman Stephane Robert (6-4 6-1) and Russian Alexander Lobkov (6-1 7-5) to book his place in the final.<\/p>\n

He will contest the ATP Challenger event at Sydney Olympic Park later this month before following the Challenger circuit to Japan.<\/p>\n

On a big day for the Australians at West Lakes, Sam Groth (Templestowe, Vic) and Matt Reid (Dural, NSW) defeated Greg Jones (Manly, NSW) and James Duckworth (Gordon, NSW) 6-2 6-4 in an all-Aussie doubles decider.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile in Launceston, 18-year-old Storm Sanders survived \u201ca huge week\u201d to take out the $25,000 Launceston Tennis International with a 6-4 6-4 win over Shuko Aoyama (JPN).<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m feeling pretty good right now, I was feeling good before the match and I\u2019ve been feeling good all tournament,\u201d Sanders said after claiming her first ITF win.<\/p>\n

\u201cI went out and tried to play one point at a time, play really aggressive tennis and take every opportunity and I\u2019m really happy with the way I played.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trailing 1-3 in the opening set Sanders soon found her rhythm to take control of the match.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt 5-2 in the second I got a little bit nervous, I was a bit shaky and I made a few errors. She played a few good points and then I got broken at 5-3 but I played my way back into it,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Sanders, a qualifier in the event, commenced her Launceston campaign with victory over Croatia\u2019s Ana Savic (7-5 6-3) before posting impressive wins over No. 8 seed Arina Rodionova (Melbourne, Vic, 6-2 6-3), top seed Olivia Rogowska (St Kilda, Vic, 7-5 7-6(3)) and Russian Ksenia Lykina (6-1 6-2) to advance to the final.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s been a huge week, I really like Launceston, it\u2019s a great venue, everyone here is wonderful and I\u2019ve had a really great tournament,\u201d Sanders said.<\/p>\n

\u201cPlaying qualifying got me a few good matches, then I had a tough first round against Ana Savic and I got through that and played Arina and Olivia and they were both tough matches in really windy, tough conditions and then I played a good match to win through to the final.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is the best result I\u2019ve ever had so I\u2019m feeling really confident. I go to Mildura next week and I\u2019m really looking forward to it.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Pro Tour now moves to Melbourne for the men\u2019s Melbourne Park Tennis International, commencing tomorrow. The women have a week off.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Matthew Barton (Collaroy, NSW) has won his first ATP Challenger title at the $50,000 Charles Sturt Adelaide International in West Lakes, South Australia, while Storm Sanders (Safety Bay, WA) has claimed her first ITF tournament win at the $25,000 Launceston Tennis International in Tasmania at the weekend. Twenty-one-year-old Barton clinched his title with a 6-2 […]<\/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-5599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5599","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=5599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5599\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}