{"id":14070,"date":"2018-09-30T19:55:20","date_gmt":"2018-09-30T09:55:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/?p=14070"},"modified":"2018-09-30T19:55:50","modified_gmt":"2018-09-30T09:55:50","slug":"canberra-wheelchair-open-champions-crowned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/news\/2018\/09\/30\/canberra-wheelchair-open-champions-crowned","title":{"rendered":"Canberra Wheelchair Open champs crowned"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yusuke Nishimura<\/strong> (JPN), Janine Watson <\/strong>(Qld), and Finn Broadbent <\/strong>(Vic) have claimed the singles titles at the Canberra Wheelchair Tennis Open today at the Canberra Tennis Centre.<\/p>\n

Unseeded Nishimura capped off a dominant few days in the capital, recording a 6-1 6-3 victory over second seed Henry de Cure <\/strong>(SA).\u00a0 The former world No.27 also took out top seeded Keegan Oh-Chee <\/strong>(NSW) and fourth seed Martyn Dunn <\/strong>(Vic) on his way to the title.<\/p>\n

Despite the convincing scoreline, Nishimura was pleased with the victory.<\/p>\n

\u201cAgainst Henry, he is a very good player, it was a very tough match for me.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the women\u2019s singles final, top seeded Watson showed her experience defeating 16-year-old Hayley Slocombe <\/strong>(NSW) 7-6(5) 6-2 in a high quality affair to claim back to back titles in Canberra.<\/p>\n

For Watson, the past two years has seen her rise rapidly up the rankings with her sights set on Tokyo 2020.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was picked up by the Australian Paralympic Committee at a talent search about two years ago.\u00a0 I\u2019m actually on the Australian taekwondo team, and at that stage I wasn\u2019t eligible for Tokyo 2020.<\/p>\n

\u201cWithin three months I\u2019d won my first Australian title, playing for two years and I\u2019m now Australia\u2019s highest ranked female, ranked 81 in the world.\u00a0 In the last six months I\u2019ve been able to get classified for taekwondo, so my goal is to make Tokyo 2020 for both sports.<\/p>\n

Slocombe then returned to the court to take on Broadbent in the junior singles final.\u00a0 It was top seeded Broadbent who emerged victorious with a 6-2 6-1 victory.<\/p>\n

After today\u2019s win, Broadbent is focusing his attention on the National Championships later this year.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe next couple of months, I\u2019ll be back to training hard, ready for Nationals in early November, I can\u2019t wait for that.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the men\u2019s doubles top seeded Oh-Chee and De Cure defeated Nishimura and Daniel Jeffery <\/strong>(NSW) 6-4 6-4, while Slocombe and Watson combined for a convincing victory in the women\u2019s doubles over Samantha Gould <\/strong>(NT) and Trudi Lines <\/strong>(Qld).<\/p>\n

Broadbent completed the double, combining with Oliver Pizzey Stratford <\/strong>(Vic) to defeat Slocombe and Sally Schwartz <\/strong>(Vic).<\/p>\n

A free come and try wheelchair tennis session was also held on Sunday morning, encouraging new participants to get involved.<\/p>\n

Rachel Sirr,<\/strong> Executive officer, Media and Communications for People with Disabilities ACT <\/strong>said the event was a great way to highlight the sport in Canberra.<\/p>\n

\u201cWheelchair tennis is a fast moving, exciting and elite sport and shows how people with a disabilities can be elite world-class sportspeople and inspire others.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019d encourage anyone with a disability to join People with Disabilities ACT. 65,000 people have some sort of a disability in Canberra or one in three households. Membership is free<\/a> and our voice is louder when we stand together.” Sirr added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yusuke Nishimura (JPN), Janine Watson (Qld), and Finn Broadbent (Vic) have claimed the singles titles at the Canberra Wheelchair Tennis Open today at the Canberra Tennis Centre. Unseeded Nishimura capped off a dominant few days in the capital, recording a 6-1 6-3 victory over second seed Henry de Cure (SA).\u00a0 The former world No.27 also […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5789,"featured_media":14073,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14070","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\/14070","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=14070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14070\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}