{"id":6765,"date":"2023-05-26T02:50:38","date_gmt":"2023-05-25T18:50:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oceaniatennis.com\/newsite\/?p=6765"},"modified":"2023-05-26T02:53:32","modified_gmt":"2023-05-25T18:53:32","slug":"saoirse-breen-gains-her-first-wta-point","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oceaniatennis.com\/newsite\/latest\/saoirse-breen-gains-her-first-wta-point\/","title":{"rendered":"Saoirse Breen Gains Her First WTA Point"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Saoirse Breen (FIJ) has had a historic moment this week in Monastir, Tunisia in gaining her first WTA Point, In the ITF W25 event after she won through 3 rounds of qualifying. In her first match, she had a lucky break when her opponent, Lara Charles (AUS) retired with an injury with the score 3-1. Then in her 2nd round qualifying match, she prevailed against Luna Plaza Araujo (BRA) 6-4, 3-6, 10-7. In her 3rd and final round qualifying match she convincingly beat Ferdaous Bahri (TUN) 6-3, 6-1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Then in her 1st round main draw match, she played Isabella Shinikova from Bulgaria. Her highest World Ranking was 133 in Singles and 159 in Doubles. She lost this match 6-2, 6-3 This is the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.itftennis.com\/en\/tournament\/w25-monastir\/tun\/2023\/w-itf-tun-21a-2023\/draws-and-results\/\"><strong>link<\/strong><\/a> to the event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oceaniatennis.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/saoirse-brisbane.jpg\" alt=\"2 Pacific Oceania Players Competing in the WTA Future Stars Event in  Singapore | OCEANIA TENNIS FEDERATION\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saoirse Breen (FIJ) has had a historic moment this week in Monastir, Tunisia in gaining her first WTA Point, In the ITF W25 event after she won through 3 rounds of qualifying. In her first match, she had a lucky &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oceaniatennis.com\/newsite\/latest\/saoirse-breen-gains-her-first-wta-point\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Saoirse Breen Gains Her First WTA Point<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oceaniatennis.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6765"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oceaniatennis.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oceaniatennis.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceaniatennis.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceaniatennis.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6765"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceaniatennis.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6769,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceaniatennis.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6765\/revisions\/6769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oceaniatennis.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceaniatennis.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceaniatennis.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}