{"id":9113,"date":"2025-01-08T05:35:49","date_gmt":"2025-01-08T05:35:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/australian-open-qualifying-fran-jones-and-billy-harris-through-cruz-hewitt-and-bernard-tomic-out\/"},"modified":"2025-01-08T05:35:49","modified_gmt":"2025-01-08T05:35:49","slug":"australian-open-qualifying-fran-jones-and-billy-harris-through-cruz-hewitt-and-bernard-tomic-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/australian-open-qualifying-fran-jones-and-billy-harris-through-cruz-hewitt-and-bernard-tomic-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian Open qualifying: Fran Jones and Billy Harris through; Cruz Hewitt and Bernard Tomic out"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Cruz Hewitt, the 16-year-old son of Australian legend Lleyton, also lost on the second day of qualifying.<\/p>\n

Watched on by his father on a packed court three, Hewitt lost 6-1 6-4 to former world number 16 Nikoloz Basilashvili of Georgia.<\/p>\n

Australia’s Bernard Tomic, formerly a top 20 player, also lost, beaten 6-3 6-1 by Slovakia’s 21st seed Jozef Kovalik.<\/p>\n

Britons Harriet Dart and Heather Watson made it through to the second round of qualifying on Monday.<\/p>\n

Katie Boulter, Emma Raducanu, Sonay Kartal, Jodie Burrage, Jack Draper, Cameron Norrie and Jacob Fearnley all have direct entry into the main draw.<\/p>\n

Elsewhere, two-time Wimbledon finalist Ons Jabeur continued her injury return with a 7-6 (8-6) 6-2 victory over Danielle Collins at the Adelaide International.<\/p>\n

Defending champion Jelena Ostapenko also advanced after coming from behind to beat Poland’s Magdalena Frech 4-6 6-1 6-1. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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Cruz Hewitt, the 16-year-old son of Australian legend Lleyton, also lost on the second day of qualifying. Watched on by his father on a packed court three, Hewitt lost 6-1 6-4 to former world number 16 Nikoloz Basilashvili of Georgia. Australia’s Bernard Tomic, formerly a top 20 player, also lost, beaten 6-3 6-1 by Slovakia’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9114,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9113"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9115,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9113\/revisions\/9115"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}