{"id":216273,"date":"2025-10-15T22:22:19","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T22:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/216273\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T22:22:19","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T22:22:19","slug":"australians-ajla-tomljanovic-and-james-duckworth-reach-wta-and-atp-quarterfinals-in-asia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/216273\/","title":{"rendered":"Australians Ajla Tomljanovi\u0107 and James Duckworth reach WTA and ATP quarterfinals in Asia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Ajla Tomljanovi\u0107 and James Duckworth have qualified to reach the quarterfinals at their respective events in China and Kazakhstan as they continue to enjoy a late-season surge.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Former Australian number one Tomljanovi\u0107 will move back into the WTA&#8217;s top 100 next week after beating Zeynep S\u00f6nmez 7-6 (8\/6), 6-3 in their last-16 contest at the Ningbo Open.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Duckworth enjoyed his best victory of the year when he knocked out last year&#8217;s finalist Gabriel Diallo 7-6 (7\/3), 6-7 (3\/7), 6-4 in the last-16 of the Almaty Open.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">It was Duckworth&#8217;s fourth match in five days.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2025-10-13\/jelenadokic-says-abusive-dad-showed-no-remorse\/105849988\" data-component=\"FullBleedLink\" class=\"RelatedCard_link__rsgR9 FullBleedLink_root__lTw_U interactive_focusContext__yRhc_ interactive_defaults__AKxUU FullBleedLink_showVisited__g3Xvz\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dokic says abusive dad showed no remorse<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"Typography_base__sj2RP RelatedCard_synopsis__cFwMW Typography_sizeMobile14__u7TGe Typography_lineHeightMobile20___U7Vr Typography_regular__WeIG6 Typography_colourInherit__dfnUx\" data-component=\"Typography\">Jelena Dokic was abused by her father for years, with no tennis success enough to stop the beatings. She reveals the complex grief of losing a parent who showed no remorse.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">He is the first Australian through to the quarterfinals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Compatriots Adam Walton and Aleksandar Vukic featured in the last 16 on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Rinky Hijikata did not advance, however, losing 6-4, 7-5 to third seed Flavio Cobolli.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Just like Duckworth, 32-year-old Tomljanovi\u0107 has appeared to thrive on a hectic schedule, winning her fourth match of the week in Ningbo on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">She made a shaky start against S\u00f6nmez, going 5-0 down in the opening set.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Tomljanovi\u0107 had to save a set point at 2-5, before rallying dramatically to force a tie-break.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The second set was also tense, but Tomljanovi\u0107 prevailed and will next face either third-seeded Elena Rybakina or Dayana Yastremska in the last eight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">It will be Tomljanovi\u0107&#8217;s third quarterfinal of the season and her first at WTA 500 level or above since the 2022 US Open, where she famously beat Serena Williams in the last match of the 23-time major winner&#8217;s career.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">AAP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ajla Tomljanovi\u0107 and James Duckworth have qualified to reach the quarterfinals at their respective events in China and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":216274,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[132197,132199,132200,64,63,70624,44,132198,747,26599],"class_list":{"0":"post-216273","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-australia","8":"tag-alja-tomljanovic","9":"tag-almaty-open","10":"tag-atp-tennis","11":"tag-au","12":"tag-australia","13":"tag-james-duckworth","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-ningbo-open","16":"tag-tennis","17":"tag-wta-tour"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216273\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}