{"id":289515,"date":"2018-11-30T06:04:52","date_gmt":"2018-11-29T20:04:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=289515"},"modified":"2018-11-30T06:04:52","modified_gmt":"2018-11-29T20:04:52","slug":"sinclair-stuns-chinas-two-time-champion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/sinclair-stuns-chinas-two-time-champion\/","title":{"rendered":"Sinclair stuns China\u2019s two-time champion"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_289516\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-289516\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/tennisaustraliaix.jpg\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-289516\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The CNMI\u2019s Colin Sinclair is in the quarterfinals of the Australian Open 2019 Asia-Pacific Wildcard Play-off. (Tennis Australia)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Colin Sinclair earned the biggest win in the opening day of the Australian Open 2019 Asia-Pacific Wildcard Play-off after pulling off an upset over China\u2019s two-time champion Di Wu.<\/p>\n<p>The CNMI player swept the No. 8 seed Wu, 6-2, 6-3, last Wednesday in Zhuhai, China to advance to the quarterfinals and boost his bid for a slot in the Grand Slam tournament. Sinclair, according to the tournament website, used his big serves to stun the hometown bet. The website added that it was Sinclair\u2019s former coach, Northern Mariana Islands Tennis Association\u2019s Jeff Race, who made it possible for the former CNMI junior player to get a wild card from Tennis Australia and moved closer to his dream of seeing action in the Australian Open.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo play a Grand Slam would be huge. I grew up and played in Brisbane since I was 10, and I have a home there, so I\u2019d love to play in the Australian Open,\u201d Sinclair was quoted as saying in the event website.<\/p>\n<p>Up next for the world No. 495 is 2015 winner and No. 2 seed Ze Zchang, also from China. Zhang advanced to the Round of 8 following a straight set win over India\u2019s Sidharth Rawat, 6-4 6-2. Joining Sinclair and Zhang in the quarterfinals were Japan\u2019s Kaichi Uchida and Chinese-Taipei\u2019s Yu Hsiou Hsu, who eliminated Tung-Lin Wu, 7-6(4), 5-7, 7-6(6) and Tsung Hua Yang, 6-3, 6-1, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Four more quarterfinals berths are left and they will be disputed by No. 1 seed Duckhee Lee and No. 5 Yunseong Chung of South Korea, No. 3 Li Zhe of China, No. 6 Renta Tokuda of Japan, and the unranked Hayi Liu, Jie Cui, and Ridele Te of China, and India\u2019s Arjun Kadhe.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Sinclair also played in the doubles, but he and Hong Kong\u2019s Pak Long Yeung were defeated by Chinese-Taipei\u2019s Hsien-Yin Peng and Jimmy Wang, 6-2, 6-3.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colin Sinclair earned the biggest win in the opening day of the Australian Open 2019&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":289516,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[7509,169,18067,7031],"class_list":["post-289515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-australian-open","tag-china","tag-colin-sinclair","tag-grand-slam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=289515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289515\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/289516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}