{"id":407905,"date":"2026-01-12T08:16:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T08:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/407905\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T08:16:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T08:16:09","slug":"ajla-tomljanovic-advances-after-clara-tauson-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/407905\/","title":{"rendered":"Ajla Tomljanovic advances after Clara Tauson injury"},"content":{"rendered":"

Australian star Ajla Tomljanovic<\/a> has advanced at the Adelaide International<\/a> after her opponent Clara Tauson succumbed to an injury in the round of 32.<\/p>\n

Tomljanovic took out the opening set 7-6(5) and looked to be back to her best after a tricky period with injury concerns of her own in recent years.<\/p>\n

The 32-year-old was preparing to head back onto the court when the physio was called to courtside to attend to Tauson, who appeared in a significant level of discomfort.<\/p>\n

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“The physio has been called to centre court, which is never a good sign,” commentator Liz Smylie said.<\/p>\n

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Clara Tauson speaks to the physio.\u00a0Stan Sport<\/p>\n

The world No.14 was then seen speaking to the physio and moments later, Tauson shook hands with the chair umpire and Tomljanovic, signalling a premature end to the match.<\/p>\n

“There is some strapping on her leg that she went out with, but I never saw any kind of dramatic movement,” Smylie said.<\/p>\n

“This doesn’t look too good, I think this might be it. What a disappointing way to end this first round match here \u2026 no player likes to win by default.”<\/p>\n

The walkover win is certainly not the ideal way for Tomljanovic to continue her Australian Open<\/a> preparations, but the former world No.32 was still happy with her performance.<\/p>\n

Watch every match from the Adelaide International, and Australian Open qualifying live and free on 9Now<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“It’s never easy to play someone that’s a bit hampered and the fact she couldn’t keep going tells you that something is really wrong,” the Aussie said post-match.<\/p>\n

“I feel really sorry, but I did compete really hard in the first set. We had two tough battles last year, so I knew coming in that every point would be important.<\/p>\n

“I had a really good pre-season and I’m just a great frame of mind. You’ve got to keep going, with any setback I just never give up and find solutions.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

Tomljanovic has already earned a spot in the main draw for the grand slam and will look to keep building her momentum this week in Adelaide.<\/p>\n

The luck didn’t extend to the men’s side of things in Adelaide however, with Alexei Popyrin going down in straight sets against Reilly Opelka.<\/p>\n

The towering American was pushed to his limits by Popyrin in the second set, but it was Opelka who walked away with the 6-3, 7-6(8-6) victory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Australian star Ajla Tomljanovic has advanced at the Adelaide International after her opponent Clara Tauson succumbed to an…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":407906,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":["post-407905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407905","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=407905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407905\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/407906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=407905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=407905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=407905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}