{"id":5628,"date":"2013-02-18T15:12:13","date_gmt":"2013-02-18T07:12:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/?p=5628"},"modified":"2013-02-18T15:12:13","modified_gmt":"2013-02-18T07:12:13","slug":"rankings-watch-sanders-storms-up-the-ladder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/news\/2013\/02\/18\/rankings-watch-sanders-storms-up-the-ladder","title":{"rendered":"Rankings watch: Sanders storms up the ladder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/news\/2013\/02\/18\/rankings-watch-sanders-storms-up-the-ladder\/attachment\/storm-sanders-460x306\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5629\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5629\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/files\/2013\/02\/Storm-Sanders-460x306-410x272.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"410\" height=\"272\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Storm Sanders has leapt more than 200 places in the latest WTA rankings released today following her stunning triumph at the recent Pro Tour event in Launceston.<\/p>\n<p>The win at the ITF $25,000 event \u2013 her first ever career title \u2013 pushed Sanders from world No.626 to No.410.<\/p>\n<p>The 18-year-old from Perth is now Australia\u2019s 15th-highest ranked woman.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYay career high of 410 today! So excited, can\u2019t wait to play here in Mildura, it\u2019s so hot!\u201d she tweeted from the Northern Victorian city, her next stop on the Pro Tour.<\/p>\n<p>Sanders enjoyed an excellent week in Tasmania, notching a win over top seed and top 150 player Olivia Rogowska in the quarterfinals, before dismissing Shuko Aoyama of Japan in the final.<\/p>\n<p>Incredibly, Sanders had to come through qualifying simply to take her place in the main draw, and did not drop a set in any of her seven match wins.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"WTA rankings\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wtatennis.com\/singles-rankings\" target=\"_blank\">&gt; see where the Aussies stand in the latest WTA rankings<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the men\u2019s game, a second round finish at the SAP Open in San Jose helped Marinko Matosevic to rise six places in this week\u2019s ATP World Tour rankings.<\/p>\n<p>Matosevic moves to world No.53, mere striking distance from a top 50 position that he achieved for the first time in October last year.<\/p>\n<p>Bernard Tomic remains Australia\u2019s highest ranked male at world No.46.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"ATP rankings\" href=\"http:\/\/www.atpworldtour.com\/Rankings\/Singles.aspx?d=18.02.2013&amp;r=0&amp;c=AUS#\" target=\"_blank\">&gt; view the Aussies\u2019 positions in the latest ATP rankings<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Storm Sanders has leapt more than 200 places in the latest WTA rankings released today following her stunning triumph at the recent Pro Tour event in Launceston. The win at the ITF $25,000 event \u2013 her first ever career title \u2013 pushed Sanders from world No.626 to No.410. The 18-year-old from Perth is now Australia\u2019s [&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-5628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5628","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=5628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5628\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}