The tournament will get underway on Monday 9 June while the finals have been scheduled to take place on Friday 13 June.<\/p>\n
The tournament is part of the three event Sun City Futures series for men and women that offers international world ranking points and prize money totaling \u00a0R 750 000.00.<\/p>\n
South African Davis Cup player Dean O\u2019Brian is at the top of the men\u2019s seeding, followed by countryman Tucker Vorster.<\/p>\n
Vorster reached the final of the first Sun City Futures event but lost out to countryman Fritz Wolmarans.<\/p>\n
Wolmarans is seeded third, while American player Tyler Hochwalt is the first outsider in fourth place.<\/p>\n
On the women\u2019s side, South African number two Chanel Simmonds tops the seeding despite her quarterfinal exit at the Futures 2 event.<\/p>\n
France\u2019s Clothilde De Bernardi, who was the runner-up at Futures 2, is seeded second, ahead of two more South Africans Madrie Le Roux and Natasha Fourouclas, who are seeded third and fourth, respectively.<\/p>\n
Le Roux will look to bounce back strongly after a bout of influenza saw her retiring from the singles semi-final and also withdrawing from the doubles finals at Futures 2.<\/p>\n
The seeds with world rankings are as follows (South African unless stated);<\/p>\n
Men\u2019s Seeds:<\/strong><\/p>\n 1.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Dean O\u2019Brien \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 555<\/p>\n 2.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Tucker Vorster \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 583<\/p>\n 3.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Fritz Wolmarans \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0584<\/p>\n 4.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Tyler Hochwalt (USA) \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 617<\/p>\n 5.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Jacob Adaktusson (SWE) \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0687<\/p>\n 6.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Milos Sekulic (SWE) \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0713<\/p>\n 7.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Ruan Roelofse \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 755<\/p>\n 8.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Augusto Laranja (BRA) \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 757<\/p>\n Womens Seeds:<\/strong><\/p>\n 1.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Chanel Simmonds \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 237<\/p>\n 2.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Clothilde De Bernardi (FRA) \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 385<\/p>\n 3.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Madrie Le Roux \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 624<\/p>\n 4.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Natasha Fourouclas \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0728<\/p>\n 5.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Michelle Sammons \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0835<\/p>\n 6.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Alexandra Riley (USA) \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 869<\/p>\n 7.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Stephanie Kent (USA) \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 1022<\/p>\n 8.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Casey Robinson (USA) \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 1034<\/p>\n Tennis South Africa also announced the wild-cards for this week\u2019s Sun City Futures 3.<\/p>\n The wild-cards are as follows (South African unless stated);<\/p>\n Men:\u00a0Lloyd Harris, Richard Ashforth, Tuki Jacobs (NAM) and Anderson Reed (USA)<\/p>\n Women:\u00a0Shannon Cox, Lenice Van Eyk, Chelsea Te Tai (NZL) and Maria Knott (AUS)<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Tennis South Africa has released the list of seeds and wildcards for the final Sun City Futures tournament, the Sun City Futures 3.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2844,"featured_media":12165,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2887,2886],"tags":[1546,889,1545,1123,1544],"class_list":["post-12160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-sport","category-sports-news","tag-dean-obrien","tag-sports","tag-sun-city","tag-tennis","tag-tennis-south-africa"],"category_labels":{"Category":"Sport","SubCategory":"General"},"tag_labels":["Dean O\u2019Brien","sports","Sun City","tennis","Tennis South Africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2844"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12160\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}