Order Now with Main Event on Kayo Sports<\/a><\/p>\nInstead of a traditional coin toss, a game of \u201crock, paper, scissors\u201d decided who served.<\/p>\n
Crucially, the amateurs were allowed two serves but any current ATP or WTA-ranked players only one.<\/p>\n
Australia\u2019s Smith, who qualified as the New South Wales champion, beat world number 117 Joanna Garland in the final, having upset Sinner and Amanda Anisimova along the way. <\/p>\n
Taiwan number one Garland beat Alexander Zverev, Nick Kyrgios and Maria Sakkari. \u201cComing in tonight, I was just happy to win one point,\u201d said Smith, who planned to buy a house with his winnings. <\/p>\n
Jordan Smith wins $1 million in a dream come true.Source: FOX SPORTS<\/p>\n
\u201cI was nervous, but I enjoyed being out here. Was a great experience.\u201d <\/p>\n
Top-ranked Alcaraz fell to women\u2019s world number 52 Sakkari, while three-time Australian Open finalist Daniil Medvedev was beaten by Anisimova before she was sent packing by Smith. <\/p>\n
Swiatek lost to Spain\u2019s Pedro Martinez.<\/p>\n
The amateur field comprised winners of eight state championship rounds played across Australia, along with eight others who came through qualifying this week. <\/p>\n
Eight wildcards went to celebrities, including Taiwanese singer Jay Chou, AFL star Bailey Smith and comedian, TV host and podcaster Andy Lee.<\/p>\n
Kokkinakis withdraws from Adelaide Int | 00:37<\/p>\n
\u201cThis event is the ultimate grassroots-to-Grand Slam experience,\u201d Tennis Australia chief Craig Tiley told reporters. <\/p>\n
\u201cThe AO One Point Slam is tennis at its most exciting — one point, one shot at glory. Fast, unfiltered and open to everyone.\u201d <\/p>\n
The Australian Open starts at Melbourne Park on Sunday with Sinner defending the men\u2019s title and Madison Keys the women\u2019s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Amateur Jordan Smith sensationally upset a star-studded field to collect a Aus $1 million prize on Wednesday by…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":412560,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":{"0":"post-412559","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412559","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=412559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412559\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/412560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=412559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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