{"id":11885,"date":"2017-08-02T15:06:58","date_gmt":"2017-08-02T05:06:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/?p=11885"},"modified":"2017-08-03T11:06:22","modified_gmt":"2017-08-03T01:06:22","slug":"poulos-set-to-compete-at-world-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/news\/2017\/08\/02\/poulos-set-to-compete-at-world-finals","title":{"rendered":"Poulos set to compete at World Finals"},"content":{"rendered":"

ACT’s\u00a0Annerly Poulos\u00a0<\/strong>is set to represent Australia at the\u00a0ITF World Junior Tennis Finals<\/strong> in\u00a0Prostejov, Czech Republic\u00a0<\/strong>from Monday 7 to 12 August.<\/p>\n

Australia qualified in both the junior girls\u2019 and boys\u2019 divisions after placing first and third respectively in their Asia \/ Oceania qualifying events held earlier this year in Bangkok, Thailand. \u00a0Poulos went undefeated in singles action at the qualifying event.<\/p>\n

Poulos will be joined by\u00a0Lara Walker<\/strong> (Brisbane, Qld) and Charlotte Kempenaers-Pocz <\/strong>(Glengowrie, SA) with Tennis Australia National Women\u2019s Tennis Manager Rohan Fisher<\/strong> named as the team captain.<\/p>\n

Top Canberra junior Poulos is looking forward to pulling on the green and gold for Australia.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m really excited to be representing Australia.<\/p>\n

\u201cAfter doing so well together at the qualifying event in Thailand I cannot wait to play in the Czech Republic,\u201d Poulos said.<\/p>\n

Fisher believes the team is ready and raring to compete at the world finals.<\/p>\n

“The girls did extremely well in Thailand, winning the Asia \/ Oceania World Junior Tennis qualifying event. This has provided them with a strong sense of confidence and belonging coming into the Finals,\u201d Fisher said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe girls have been training hard in preparation for this tournament and have been playing junior events across Europe, building their competition experience on clay.<\/p>\n

\u201cWorld Junior Tennis is a fantastic opportunity for the team. Representing your country is an athlete\u2019s ultimate goal, hopefully one day we\u2019ll see them on the Australian Fed Cup team.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the boys\u2019 squad, Casey Hoole<\/strong> (Kedron, Qld), Philip Sekulic<\/strong> (Wakerley, Qld), Edward Vo<\/strong> (Croydon Park, SA) and Cooper White <\/strong>(Alphington, Vic) have been named to represent Australia at the international event. Tennis Australia National Academy Coach \u2013 Queensland Anthony Richardson<\/strong> will captain the team.<\/p>\n

Richardson said the team is looking healthy and strong ahead of next week.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have an extremely even team and the boys all get on so well. Team spirit and togetherness is a real strength of the squad this year,\u201d Richardson said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think we\u2019ve got a very good chance, all four players are strong on clay and there is a lot of diversity within the team.\u201d<\/p>\n

Both teams departed for Europe last month to train, compete and prepare for the tournament. \u00a0Poulos has been in great form, making the final of the Windmill Cup, a Grade 1 European 14\/u event held in the Netherlands.<\/p>\n

The world\u2019s top 16 nations from five qualifying zones earned their place in the ITF World Junior Tennis Finals after qualification events were held in Africa<\/strong>, North \/ Central America<\/strong>, South America<\/strong>, Europe<\/strong> and Asia \/ Oceania <\/strong>earlier this year.<\/p>\n

The ITF World Junior Tennis tournament is an international team competition for players aged 14-and-under.<\/p>\n

The ITF World Junior Tennis competition has helped launch the careers of former world No.1s including\u00a0Novak Djokovic<\/strong>\u00a0(SRB),\u00a0Lleyton Hewitt<\/strong>\u00a0(AUS),\u00a0Rafael Nadal<\/strong>\u00a0(ESP),\u00a0Kim Clijsters\u00a0<\/strong>(BEL) and\u00a0Justine Henin<\/strong>\u00a0(BEL), who all participated in the event as juniors.<\/p>\n

For more information please visit http:\/\/www.itftennis.com\/juniors\/team-competitions\/itf-world-junior-tennis.aspx<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

ACT’s\u00a0Annerly Poulos\u00a0is set to represent Australia at the\u00a0ITF World Junior Tennis Finals in\u00a0Prostejov, Czech Republic\u00a0from Monday 7 to 12 August. Australia qualified in both the junior girls\u2019 and boys\u2019 divisions after placing first and third respectively in their Asia \/ Oceania qualifying events held earlier this year in Bangkok, Thailand. \u00a0Poulos went undefeated in singles […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5789,"featured_media":11888,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11885","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\/11885","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=11885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11885\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}