The Tennis World Canberra Bronze JT, Girls only event was held in conjunction with finals weekend of the ACT Claycourt International #1 from 22-24 March.<\/p>\n
The opportunity to watch some of the world\u2019s best players while competing in their own event provided plenty of motivation for the junior athletes.<\/p>\n
Canberra\u2019s Alisha Kumar had a great weekend, winning both the 12\/u singles and enjoyed watching the professionals.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was pretty cool, because while I was playing, in between breaks I could see the players play.\u201d<\/p>\n
Kumar provided a spirited comeback in the final after being down a set and 5-1, she recovered to win the match 6-7(5) 7-5(2) 11-9.\u00a0 She also combined with Jessica Das to defeat Chloe Barton and Lily Carmody in the doubles.<\/p>\n
Despite the victories, Kumar was looking forward to improving her game to hopefully one day play in similar events to the ACT Claycourt International.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think I played very well on the weekend even though I have a few things to improve on in the future.\u201d<\/p>\n
In other results over the weekend, Sophie McDonald and Ellie Koundouris both made the singles semifinals.\u00a0 McDonald also combined with Jane Haeusler to take on the 16\/u girls doubles title.<\/p>\n
A boys only JT was also held a few weeks earlier with Nicholas Maleganeas the standout performer from the ACT.\u00a0 Maleganeas only dropped 3 games on his way to the singles title and also combined with Leo Phijidvijan to make the doubles final.<\/p>\n
Pictured – Sophie McDonald<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Tennis World Canberra Bronze JT, Girls only event was held in conjunction with finals weekend of the ACT Claycourt International #1 from 22-24 March. The opportunity to watch some of the world\u2019s best players while competing in their own event provided plenty of motivation for the junior athletes. Canberra\u2019s Alisha Kumar had a great […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5789,"featured_media":14950,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14942","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\/14942","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=14942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14942\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}