It’s the start of another important week in the tennis calendar, with Australian Open tune-up tournaments taking place in Adelaide, Auckland and Hobart.<\/p>\n
09:28 CET – Fourth seed Ekaterina Alexandrova<\/a> has been dumped out in Adelaide after a shock 6-4, 6-4<\/a> defeat to Romania’s Jaqueline Cristian<\/a>.<\/p>\n 08:23 CET –\u00a0There’s been plenty of notable action overnight, with Emma Navarro<\/a> and Victoria Mboko<\/a> advancing in Adelaide after victories over Emerson Jones<\/a> and Beatriz Haddad Maia<\/a>, respectively.<\/p>\n Anna Kalinskaya<\/a>, Marie Bouzkova<\/a> and home hope Ajla Tomljanovic<\/a> have also moved through in Adelaide, while on the men’s side of the tournament, Reilly Opelka<\/a> proved too strong for Alexei Popyrin<\/a> in a 6-3, 7-6(5)<\/a> win.<\/p>\n Elsewhere, fifth seed Cameron Norrie<\/a> is through to the second round in Auckland after a 6-3, 6-4<\/a> victory over Hugo Gaston<\/a>, while Ann Li<\/a>, Elisabetta Cocciaretto<\/a> and Solana Sierra<\/a> have all claimed wins in Hobart.<\/p>\n Check out the full schedule for tournaments in Adelaide<\/a> (ATP), Adelaide<\/a> (WTA), Auckland<\/a> (ATP) and Hobart<\/a> (WTA) via the links.<\/p>\n 07:50 CET – Good morning and welcome to our coverage of today’s tennis in Australia and New Zealand!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It’s the start of another important week in the tennis calendar, with Australian Open tune-up tournaments taking place…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":407981,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":["post-407980","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\/407980","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=407980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407980\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/407981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=407980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=407980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=407980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}