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 No 117 Joanna Garland in the final, having upset Sinner and Amanda Anisimova along the way.<\/p>\n
Taiwan No 1 Garland beat Alexander Zverev, Nick Kyrgios and Maria Sakkari.<\/p>\n
\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
\u201cI was nervous, but I enjoyed being out here. Was a great experience.\u201d<\/p>\n
Top-ranked Alcaraz fell to women\u2019s world No 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, with eight others who came through qualifying this week.<\/p>\n
Eight wildcards went to celebrities, including Taiwanese singer Jay Chou.<\/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 \u2013 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
-Agence France-Presse<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Crucially, the amateurs were allowed two serves but any current ATP or WTA-ranked players only one. Australia\u2019s Smith,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":233568,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[7495,7125,1135,9218,74255,19345,78,16802,123,1132,111,139,69,5270,5493,9617,423,138480,10512,138479,10814,16189,213,62038,9423,3217,61,8496,1680,6027,18457],"class_list":["post-233567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-1m","tag-amateur","tag-australian","tag-before","tag-collect","tag-field","tag-in","tag-jordan","tag-melbourne","tag-million","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-one","tag-open","tag-player","tag-point","tag-pressurepacked","tag-prize","tag-sensationally","tag-slam","tag-smith","tag-sports","tag-starstudded","tag-stuns","tag-tennis","tag-to","tag-upset","tag-wednesday","tag-win","tag-winning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233567\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}