{"id":11658,"date":"2017-07-12T09:20:55","date_gmt":"2017-07-11T23:20:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/?p=11658"},"modified":"2017-08-03T11:24:29","modified_gmt":"2017-08-03T01:24:29","slug":"tennis-world-canberra-junior-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/news\/2017\/07\/12\/tennis-world-canberra-junior-open","title":{"rendered":"Tennis World Canberra Junior Open"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Tennis World Canberra Junior Open<\/strong> was held over split weekends at the Canberra Tennis Centre <\/strong>with 88 participants taking part.<\/p>\n

ACT players competed well across the 12\/u events, with Charlie Camus, Gen Casarotto, <\/strong>and Nicholas Maleganeas <\/strong>making it through to the semifinals.\u00a0 Camus beat Casarotto in the semis, while Jesse Ingleton <\/strong>(NSW) proved too strong for Maleganeas in a tight three set battle.\u00a0 In one of the standout matches of the tournament, Ingleton defeated Camus 4-2, 1-4, 4-1 in the final.\u00a0 The 12\/u boy\u2019s doubles final featured all ACT players with Quinn Blakers <\/strong>and Aaron Liu <\/strong>defeating Maleganeas and Connor Watts.<\/strong><\/p>\n

In the 12\/u girls singles, Aliyah Dwyer <\/strong>made it through to the semis before falling to Taegan White <\/strong>(SA).\u00a0 <\/strong>White went onto win the title, defeating Marqaylar Tere <\/strong>(NSW) in a third set tiebreak.\u00a0 ACT\u2019s Sophie McDonald, <\/strong>then combined with White to beat Tere and Isabella Andrews <\/strong>(NSW) in the 12\/u girls doubles.<\/p>\n

Tournament Director Jarrod Williams <\/strong>was thrilled with the sportsmanship and match quality displayed in the 12\/u event. \u201cMatch consistency and player sportsmanship was a highlight noted by tournament staff. We were all spoilt to witness player technique and tactics developed through the many apparent on-court training hours\u201d.<\/p>\n

The following weekend ACT players dominated the 14\/u girls, 16\/u girls, and 16\/u boys events.\u00a0 Alyssa Simoncini <\/strong>won the 14\/u girls singles title, defeating fellow Canberra players Victoria D\u2019Ambrosio <\/strong>and Saskia Kozlow <\/strong>in the semifinal and final respectively.\u00a0 Simoncini then combined with her younger sister, Sofia Simoncini <\/strong>to take out the doubles over Kozlow and Callison Row.\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n

The 16\/u boys featured four ACT players in the semifinals with Jack Tallarida Lyons <\/strong>defeating Daniel Zhang <\/strong>and Jimmy Fu <\/strong>taking out Oliver Sheehan<\/strong>.\u00a0 In the final Tallarida Lyons won two tiebreaks to take out the title without dropping a set.\u00a0 Fu and Zhang then combined to beat Tallarida Lyons and Sheehan in the doubles.<\/p>\n

The 16\/u girls event was a round robin with ACT players claiming the top three spots.\u00a0 Nornaaah Sharmaa <\/strong>went through undefeated to beat out Madison Sutherland <\/strong>(runner-up) and Annika Wise (<\/strong>3rd<\/sup> place).<\/p>\n

The 14\/u boys singles saw Victoria\u2019s Roberto Besazza <\/strong>defeat Sean Wang <\/strong>(NSW) 0-4, 4-3, 4-2. \u00a0The 14\/u boys doubles was a closely contested affair with the round robin stages resulting in a three way tie. \u00a0Charlie Snow <\/strong>(ACT) and\u00a0Ryan Kitchin\u00a0<\/strong>(NSW) were crowned champions after a countback on sets with\u00a0Baden Arellano Gerrard<\/strong>\u00a0(ACT)\u00a0<\/strong>and Charlie Camus (ACT) finishing runner-up.<\/p>\n

Williams was also pleased with performance of the 14\/u and 16\/u athletes. \u201cSpectators and parents were happy to see such quality tennis coming from all players. This is a true credit to all the work coaches, parents and especially players have made to the individuals player performance.\u201d<\/p>\n

Full draws and results can be found below
\n12\/u<\/a>
\n14\/u and 16\/u<\/a><\/p>\n

Tournament action continues in Canberra this weekend, with the Tennis World Canberra Indoor Championships <\/strong>set to take place from July 14-16.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Tennis World Canberra Junior Open was held over split weekends at the Canberra Tennis Centre with 88 participants taking part. ACT players competed well across the 12\/u events, with Charlie Camus, Gen Casarotto, and Nicholas Maleganeas making it through to the semifinals.\u00a0 Camus beat Casarotto in the semis, while Jesse Ingleton (NSW) proved too […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5789,"featured_media":11662,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11658","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\/11658","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\/5789"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11658\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}