The 12\/u and 14\/u Australian Claycourt Championships were held in Canberra from 7-12 April with seven athletes from the ACT participating.\u00a0 It was one of the largest contingents of players from the capital at a national event, with several athletes posting career best results.<\/p>\n
Leading the way was Aliyah Dwyer and Charlie Camus who both reached the quarterfinals.\u00a0 For Dwyer, it was her best ever result, defeating the number 8 seed in the second round before falling to the top seed and eventual champion. Gloria Jovic.\u00a0 Dwyer went on to finish in 6th<\/sup> place.<\/p>\n After claiming this event in the 12\/u age group in 2018, along with the 12\/u Australian Championships, Camus stepped up into the 14\/u age group, despite still being eligible to compete in the younger age group.\u00a0 Camus won his opening two matches in straight sets to set up a quarterfinal clash with top seed Edward Winter.\u00a0 The top seed proved too strong, with Winter going on to win both the singles and doubles titles.<\/p>\n Isabella Andrews and Hugh Taylor both won their opening round matches before falling in the second round.\u00a0 Andrews went on to finish in 11th<\/sup> position, while Taylor earned 15th<\/sup> place.<\/p>\n Charlie Snow won three of his five matches to finish in 18th<\/sup> spot, while Sophie McDonald and Nicholas Maleganeas both ended up in 31st<\/sup> position.<\/p>\n Congratulations to the following players who have also posted notable results over the past month;<\/p>\n Anirudh Nallaparaju \u2013 12\/u boys singles winner Bendigo Gold JT and 12\/u boys singles semi-finalist Bathurst Silver JT<\/p>\n Alisha Kumar \u2013 12\/u girls singles winner Canberra Bronze JT<\/p>\n Charlie Camus \u2013 14\/u boys singles and doubles winner ACT Gold JT<\/p>\n Hugh Taylor \u2013 12\/u boys doubles winner ACT Gold JT<\/p>\n Dylan White \u2013 14\/u boys singles semi-finalist ACT Gold JT<\/p>\n Aliyah Dwyer \u2013 12\/u girls singles winner, 14\/u girls singles semi-finalist and 16\/u girls doubles winner Stringlab Silver JT<\/p>\n Alyssa Simoncini \u2013 16\/u girls singles runner up and winner doubles ACT Gold JT<\/p>\n Ellie Koundouris \u2013 16\/u girls doubles winner ACT Gold JT<\/p>\n Calllison Row \u2013 16\/u girls singles semi-finalist ACT Gold JT<\/p>\n Lachlan Rowing \u2013 16\/u boys singles semi-finalist ACT Gold JT<\/p>\n Leon Hemmings \u2013 16\/u boys singles semi-finalist ACT Gold JT<\/p>\n James Frawley \u2013 Mens singles runner up ACT Open Platinum AMT<\/p>\n Alison Bai \u2013 Women’s Singles runner-up VIC Champs Platinum AMT and\u00a0 Women’s Doubles winner ACT $25,000 Pro event<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The 12\/u and 14\/u Australian Claycourt Championships were held in Canberra from 7-12 April with seven athletes from the ACT participating.\u00a0 It was one of the largest contingents of players from the capital at a national event, with several athletes posting career best results. Leading the way was Aliyah Dwyer and Charlie Camus who both […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5789,"featured_media":14939,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14935","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\/14935","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=14935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14935\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}