{"id":10447,"date":"2017-01-16T13:13:56","date_gmt":"2017-01-16T02:13:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/?p=10447"},"modified":"2017-01-16T13:13:56","modified_gmt":"2017-01-16T02:13:56","slug":"act-athletes-represent-at-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/news\/2017\/01\/16\/act-athletes-represent-at-open","title":{"rendered":"ACT athletes represent at Open"},"content":{"rendered":"

Alison Bai<\/strong> has had her best ever result in the Australian Open\u00a0<\/strong>wildcard playoff event,\u00a0reaching the semi-final\u00a0round<\/a>, going down in a very close match to Abbie Myers<\/strong>\u00a0(NSW) in three sets.<\/p>\n

Alison has received a main draw wildcard into the Australian Open<\/strong> doubles event with partner Lizette Cabrera\u00a0<\/strong>(QLD).<\/p>\n

Bai and Cabrera are set to go up against\u00a0Anika Beck\u00a0<\/strong>(GER) and\u00a0Anastasija Sevastova\u00a0<\/strong>(LAT) in the first round of the doubles draw. If the duo win they will go on to play the winner of top doubles seeds\u00a0Caroline Garcia\u00a0<\/strong>(FRA) and\u00a0Kristina Mladenovic\u00a0<\/strong>(FRA) v\u00a0Belinda Bencic\u00a0<\/strong>(SUI) and\u00a0Ana Konjuh\u00a0<\/strong>(CR).<\/p>\n

View the AO 2017 women’s doubles draw here.<\/a><\/p>\n

World No.14 [14]\u00a0Nick Kyrgios <\/strong>set to play unseeded world No.81\u00a0Gastao\u00a0Elias\u00a0<\/strong>(POR) this afternoon at Hisense Arena not before 6:30pm. All the best Nick.<\/p>\n

View the AO 2017 men’s singles draw here.<\/a><\/p>\n

There were some excellent results from ACT players at the December National Titles in Melbourne. Leading the way was 13-year-old Annerly Poulos<\/strong>, who played some great tennis to reach the final of the 14\/u girls singles and doubles events. Annerly played a great match but went down to Queensland star Olivia Gadecki<\/strong> in three close sets.<\/p>\n

Annerly teamed up with Tasmanian Charlotte Ingram<\/strong> to reach her first ever Nationals doubles final. It was Annerly’s 3rd 14\/u National singles runner-up in 2016, in a year she also won an ITF junior event and represented Australia twice. Congratulations to Annerly on an outstanding 2016.<\/p>\n

In the 18\/u event, ACT National Academy<\/strong> scholarship holder Kaitlin Staines<\/strong> unfortunately had to withdraw with injury prior to the event starting. However, her training partner Lisa Mays<\/strong> won three matches to qualify for the main draw round robin stage. 16-year-old Mays lost all three of her round robin matches, but gained great experience and played some\u00a0fantastic\u00a0tennis.<\/p>\n

Lisa then backed up the 18’s form with a quarter-final appearance at the 16\/u Nationals singles event. She then\u00a0teamed with NSW player Gaby Da Silva Flick<\/strong> to win the 16\/u doubles event. Congratulations to Lisa for an excellent December showdown and for winning your first ever National title!<\/p>\n

Also having her best ever Nationals was 13-year-old\u00a0Ashleigh Simes<\/strong>. Ash reached round of 16 in the 14\/u girls singles, but had several good wins in her playoff draw and finished the event in 11th position (out of 64 entrants) – her best ever result at a Nationals title.<\/p>\n

In the\u00a012\/u and 14\/u National teams event, the ACT was represented by both boys and girls teams. The ACT players gained a lot of experience\u00a0during the four days.<\/p>\n

A big thanks to\u00a0local coaches Todd Larkham, Alun Jones, Brett Lennard<\/strong> and Nathan Price<\/strong> for managing and looking after the players during the event.<\/p>\n

Congratulations to all ACT players who competed at the December Showdown National Titles.<\/p>\n

ACT players who also\u00a0featured in the event include Alyssa Simoncini, Maddison Sutherland, Daniel Zhang, Jimmy Fu, Erik Chen, Charlie Snow, Daniel McDonald, Sophie McDonald, Dimi Morogiannis, Jamieson Nathan<\/strong> and Baden Arellano-Gerard.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Alison Bai has had her best ever result in the Australian Open\u00a0wildcard playoff event,\u00a0reaching the semi-final\u00a0round, going down in a very close match to Abbie Myers\u00a0(NSW) in three sets. Alison has received a main draw wildcard into the Australian Open doubles event with partner Lizette Cabrera\u00a0(QLD). Bai and Cabrera are set to go up against\u00a0Anika […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5993,"featured_media":10464,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5993"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10447\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}