{"id":10678,"date":"2017-03-06T16:26:17","date_gmt":"2017-03-06T05:26:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/?p=10678"},"modified":"2017-03-06T16:26:17","modified_gmt":"2017-03-06T05:26:17","slug":"acts-elite-to-train-and-recover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/news\/2017\/03\/06\/acts-elite-to-train-and-recover","title":{"rendered":"ACT&#8217;s elite to train and recover"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The month of February has been a great opportunity for ACT&#8217;s elite players to recover from a hectic two month period of events and to really get stuck into a training block in preparation for 2017.<\/p>\n<p>The post junior pro squad, including ACT players\u00a0<strong>James Frawley<\/strong>, <strong>Jarred Wynan <\/strong>and<strong>\u00a0Dimitri Morogiannis<\/strong> alongside Tasmanian\u00a0<strong>Harry Bouchier,<\/strong>\u00a0have been involved in long morning sessions on Lyneham&#8217;s redeveloped European clay courts with Tennis Australia coach <strong>Alun Jones<\/strong>. The squad aim to\u00a0build their fitness and prepare\u00a0for the upcoming men&#8217;s pro events, part of the ACT Claycourt International planned for March 11-19 in Canberra on the clay. We will then see the boys take part in a three to four month period\u00a0overseas.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Nick Kyrgios<\/strong> produced a masterful display of serving and backcourt power to defeat No.1 seed <strong>Novak Djokovic<\/strong> and reach the semis in Acapulco, a big win for him. Unfortunately, he was denied a place in the Mexican\u00a0final by in-form American <strong>Sam Querrey<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kaitlin Staines<\/strong>, <strong>Lisa Mays<\/strong> and <strong>Alison Bai<\/strong>, have all focused on hard court training for upcoming events in Australia and across Asia.<\/p>\n<p>For the rest of Canberra&#8217;s elite junior players, February has been a chance for them to work on improving their technique with their coaches, building strength and fitness in the gym.<\/p>\n<p>Outstanding highlights include:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Alison Bai<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Doubles Runner\u2013Up: Burnie Challenger $60,000 ITF Pro Tour<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Nick Kyrgios<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Semi\u2013finalist Marseille Open 13<\/li>\n<li>Semi-finalist Acapulco Mexican Open<\/li>\n<li>Singles rubber victory Davis Cup 1st round vs Czech Republic<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The month of February has been a great opportunity for ACT&#8217;s elite players to recover from a hectic two month period of events and to really get stuck into a training block in preparation for 2017. The post junior pro squad, including ACT players\u00a0James Frawley, Jarred Wynan and\u00a0Dimitri Morogiannis alongside Tasmanian\u00a0Harry Bouchier,\u00a0have been involved in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5971,"featured_media":10686,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10678","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\/10678","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=10678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10678\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}