Australia, 11 September 2023 | Leigh Rogers
A few of Australia’s prime gamers have the chance to earn priceless rating factors on house soil this fortnight, with Western Australia and the Northern Territory internet hosting back-to-back Australian Professional Tour occasions.
Perth will host consecutive ITF 25 tournaments for girls, with Darwin the setting for 2 ITF 25 occasions for males.
Priscilla Hon, a Billie Jean King Cup consultant who has been ranked as excessive as world No.118, headlines this week’s Perth Tennis Worldwide on the State Tennis Centre.
The 25-year-old is joined by Western Australian locals Maddison Inglis, Talia Gibson and Taylah Preston in a powerful area.
> VIEW: Perth Worldwide girls’s singles draw
Blake Ellis, a 24-year-old from Brisbane, and Thomas Fancutt, a 28-year-old additionally from Brisbane, are the highest seeds at this week’s Darwin Tennis Worldwide.
Cruz Hewitt, the 14-year-old son of Australian nice Lleyton Hewitt, is amongst an enormous group of Australians competing on the Darwin Worldwide Tennis Centre.
Hewitt scored his first professional-level win within the opening qualifying spherical yesterday.
> VIEW: Darwin Worldwide males’s singles draw
“The Australian Professional Tour is an integral a part of the excessive efficiency pathway for our rising athletes,” mentioned Tennis Australia’s Professional Tour Supervisor Fiona Luscombe.
“Having the ability to host worldwide occasions similar to ITF Professional Tour proper right here in Australia is so vital for offering native athletes and people from throughout the Asia-Pacific area the chance to expertise competing at a world degree.”
> VIEW: Australian Professional Tour calendar
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