{"id":10600,"date":"2017-02-08T13:28:34","date_gmt":"2017-02-08T02:28:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/?p=10600"},"modified":"2017-02-10T11:54:58","modified_gmt":"2017-02-10T00:54:58","slug":"six-seniors-shine-at-aussie-championships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/news\/2017\/02\/08\/six-seniors-shine-at-aussie-championships","title":{"rendered":"CBR seniors shine at Aussie championships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Five Canberra players competed in the 2017 Australian Tennis Seniors Championships, including\u00a0tennis seniors world No.1 <strong>Ros Balodis<\/strong>\u00a0who took both the Women\u2019s 55\u2019s singles and doubles titles.<\/p>\n<p>58-year-old Balodis, won the final round sinlges match in straight sets, defeating second seed <strong>Brenda Foster<\/strong> 6-2, 6-3.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I had some really good tennis matches while I was in Adelaide and I really enjoyed the competition&#8221;, she said. &#8220;It was nice to see so many Canberra people playing in individuals week&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The tennis veteran\u00a0has enjoyed\u00a0repeat\u00a0success over the past few years,\u00a0claimed\u00a0victories in back-to-back International Tennis\u00a0Federation (<strong>ITF<\/strong>) events, winning at the 2016 ITF seniors world individual championships and the 2016 ITF seniors team championship.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I try to take each each tournament as it comes and I try to play my best tennis every time, and this time, I won out on the day.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The 2017 championships were held over two weeks in Adelaide. More of a\u00a0social competition, the 2017 Australian Seniors Teams Carnival ran from 8-13 January with over 600 participants.<\/p>\n<p>This was followed by the ITF grade A tournament &#8211; the 2017 Individual Championships from 15-20 January. 335 tennis players participated in this years tournament at all age groups ranging from 35-85 years.<\/p>\n<p>Each year, the delegated host Division conducts the Championships in accordance with a defined set of\u00a0regulations.\u00a0Canberra hosted the event in 2015.<\/p>\n<h3>ACT PLAYER RESULTS<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Ros Balodis \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Women\u2019s 55 Singles Champion<\/li>\n<li>Women\u2019s 55 Doubles Champion<\/li>\n<li>Mixed 55\u2019s Doubles Semi-finalist (with Colin Holgate)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Colin Holgate<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Men\u2019s 60\u2019s Doubles semi-finalist<\/li>\n<li>Mixed 55\u2019s Doubles Semi-finalist (with Ros Balodis)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Narrelle Raftery <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Women\u2019s 55\u2019s doubles and 50\u2019s mixed doubles runner-up<\/li>\n<li>Women\u2019s 55\u2019s singles semi-finalist<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Pat Moloney<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Men\u2019s 65\/70\u2019s consolation singles runner-up<\/li>\n<li>Men\u2019s 140 combined doubles runner-up (with John Greenup)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>John Greenup<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Men\u2019s 140 combined doubles runner-up (with Pat Moloney)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For more, visit the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tennisseniors.org.au\/nationals.htm\">tournament website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Five Canberra players competed in the 2017 Australian Tennis Seniors Championships, including\u00a0tennis seniors world No.1 Ros Balodis\u00a0who took both the Women\u2019s 55\u2019s singles and doubles titles. 58-year-old Balodis, won the final round sinlges match in straight sets, defeating second seed Brenda Foster 6-2, 6-3. &#8220;I had some really good tennis matches while I was in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5971,"featured_media":10612,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10600","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\/10600","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\/5971"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10600\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}