{"id":8176,"date":"2013-12-31T14:39:04","date_gmt":"2013-12-31T06:39:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/?p=8176"},"modified":"2013-12-31T14:39:04","modified_gmt":"2013-12-31T06:39:04","slug":"tomic-draws-tie-level-as-stosur-stumbles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/news\/2013\/12\/31\/tomic-draws-tie-level-as-stosur-stumbles","title":{"rendered":"Tomic draws tie level as Stosur stumbles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/files\/2013\/12\/459790357-570x457.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8177\" alt=\"459790357-570x457\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/files\/2013\/12\/459790357-570x457-381x306.jpg\" width=\"381\" height=\"306\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bernard Tomic shook off a heavy training load to keep Australia\u2019s Hopman Cup title hopes alive. Tomic beat Italy\u2019s Andreas Seppi 4-6 6-3 6-2 to level the tie at 1-1 after Sam Stosur slumped to a 6-4 6-4 loss to Flavia Pennetta.<\/p>\n<p>Australia, who lost to Canada 2-1 in their opening tie, need to beat Italy if they are to have any hope of reaching the final. Tomic said he was tired after training for five hours on Monday and another two hours before his match against Seppi.<\/p>\n<p>The world No.51 looked proppy in the second set, but rediscovered his mojo to seal the match in 102 minutes. \u201cI started slow but it was very good tennis,\u201d Tomic said. \u201cYesterday I trained a lot so I was very tired. \u201cWe have to win the mixed doubles now. It\u2019s very important to us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Stosur said she was frustrated but not despondent after slumping to consecutive Hopman Cup defeats. Stosur, who suffered a three sets loss to Eugenie Bouchard on Saturday, committed 26 unforced errors against Pennetta.<\/p>\n<p>The 2011 US Open champion has famously struggled to find form during the home tennis summer in recent years, but says there\u2019s no need to panic just yet ahead of next month\u2019s Australian Open. \u201cIt\u2019s disappointing not to get a win again. But I thought I played some good tennis,\u201d Stosur said. \u201cEvery year I\u2019ve managed to play well at some point. It\u2019s not like you start not so well and then your whole year is shot. Time on court is the most important thing at the moment and that\u2019s why this tournament is so great. \u201cI\u2019m sure with each day I can take a bit more from it and build on what I\u2019ve been doing. \u201cI\u2019m still pretty happy with the way I\u2019m hitting the ball. There\u2019s room for improvement, but I don\u2019t think it\u2019s the worst start I\u2019ve ever had.\u201d Stosur has now lost all five of her meetings with Pennetta, who is ranked 13 places behind the world No.18 Australian.<\/p>\n<p>The Queenslander only committed four double faults for the match, but three of those came in the crucial ninth game of the second set. Those errors gifted Pennetta the only break of the set, with the Italian holding her own serve next game to secure the win in 90 minutes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bernard Tomic shook off a heavy training load to keep Australia\u2019s Hopman Cup title hopes alive. Tomic beat Italy\u2019s Andreas Seppi 4-6 6-3 6-2 to level the tie at 1-1 after Sam Stosur slumped to a 6-4 6-4 loss to Flavia Pennetta. Australia, who lost to Canada 2-1 in their opening tie, need to beat [&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-8176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8176","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=8176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8176\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}