Canberra’s Annerly Poulos has helped Australia qualify for the Junior Fed Cup Finals with the team winning the Asia\/Oceania qualifying tournament held in Malaysia from April 16-21. \u00a0Poulos compiled an impressive 7-1 record over the week including two deciding match tiebreak doubles victories.<\/p>\n
Poulos was joined in the team Olivia Gadecki (Qld) and Anastasia Berezov (NSW), with Emma Doyle as captain.<\/p>\n
In the pool rounds, sixth seeded Australia dominated their opening two matches with 3-0 victories over New Zealand and India. \u00a0The team then defeated second seeds Hong Kong 2-1 after Poulos won her singles and then combined with Gadecki to win the deciding doubles match 10-7 in the match tiebreak.<\/p>\n
Berezov and Poulos both won their singles matches against Chinese Taipei to then progress to the semifinals. \u00a0The sixth seeded Australian’s faced a tough match against fourth seeded Japan which again came down to a clutch doubles match with Poulos and Gadecki saving a match point to win 6-2 1-6 12-10.<\/p>\n
In the final, Berezov got Australia off to a winning start in Saturday\u2019s final against Indonesia before Gadecki sealed victory in straight sets.<\/p>\n
The Junior Fed Cup team will join Australia’s Junior Davis Cup side at the finals in Budapest later this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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