{"id":17791,"date":"2022-04-24T12:52:47","date_gmt":"2022-04-24T02:52:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/?p=17791"},"modified":"2022-04-24T12:52:47","modified_gmt":"2022-04-24T02:52:47","slug":"champions-crowned-in-australian-claycourt-championships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/news\/2022\/04\/24\/champions-crowned-in-australian-claycourt-championships","title":{"rendered":"Champions crowned in Australian Claycourt Championships"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The past week has seen Australia\u2019s most promising\u00a012\/u\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a014\/u<\/strong>\u00a0juniors battling it out in\u00a0Canberra<\/strong>\u00a0for the\u00a02022 Australian Junior Claycourt Championships presented by Kia.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The singles finals for the 12\/u and 14\/u boys and girls were completed today at\u00a0Canberra Tennis Centre<\/strong>, whilst the doubles champions were decided yesterday.<\/p>\n

\u201cEveryone has had a fantastic time here in Canberra this week. The capital has turned on great weather and all the players, parents and coaches have enjoyed being together once again at a national championships for the first time in 12 months,\u201d Tournament Director\u00a0Francis Soyer<\/strong>\u00a0said.<\/p>\n

\u201cPlayers competed in five highly competitive singles matches, as well as doubles and mixed doubles matches this week, giving them a great benchmark on how they compare with the best players in their age group from across Australia,\u201d Soyer continued.<\/p>\n

Tennis ACT CEO\u00a0Kim Kachel<\/strong>\u00a0said it was a privilege to host the event, \u201cIt was brilliant to host the latest edition of the Australian Claycourt Championships after a very challenging 12 months for everyone. The European clay courts were in exceptional condition and the ACT and region players did extremely well in their backyard.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cCongratulations to all athletes that competed,\u201d Kachel continued. \u201cThe very worthy winners will now be added to the trophies and join some illustrious names.\u00a0 The event also provided a brilliant boost to the local economy and businesses having so many people enjoying all that Canberra has to offer.\u201d<\/p>\n

Michael Smith<\/strong>, 14\/u Boys Champion was thrilled with his win. \u201cI am really excited. It\u2019s good knowing that all the hard work the past couple months playing and preparing on clay has actually paid off\u201d.<\/p>\n

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2022 Australian Junior Claycourt Championships presented by Kia Results<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

Singles<\/strong><\/p>\n

Girls 14-and-under Singles Final<\/strong><\/p>\n

Kimiko Cooper<\/strong> (NSW) defeated Audrey Aulia<\/strong> (NSW) 6-3 6-4<\/p>\n

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Boys 14-and-under Singles Final<\/strong><\/p>\n

Michael Smith<\/strong> (SA) defeated Jerome Estephan<\/strong> (NSW) 6-0 6-3<\/p>\n

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Girls 12-and-under Singles Final<\/strong><\/p>\n

Renee Alame<\/strong> (NSW) defeated Brooke Komorowski<\/strong> (NSW) 6-0 6-1<\/p>\n

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Boys 12-and-under Singles Final<\/strong><\/p>\n

Nikolas Baker<\/strong> (VIC) defeated Taiki Takizawa<\/strong> (QLD) 6-2 6-4<\/p>\n

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Doubles<\/strong><\/p>\n

Girls 14-and-under Doubles final<\/strong><\/p>\n

Audrey Aulia<\/strong> (NSW) \/ Elizabeth Ivanov<\/strong> (NSW) defeated<\/p>\n

Rianna Alame <\/strong>(NSW) \/ Giselle Guillen<\/strong> (NSW) 6-4 6-2<\/p>\n

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Boys 14-and-under Doubles final<\/strong><\/p>\n

Michael Smith<\/strong> (SA) \/ Billy Williams<\/strong> (SA) defeated<\/p>\n

Rohan Hazratwala<\/strong> (QLD) \/ Ashton Mcleod<\/strong> (NSW) 7-6(6) 5-7 (10-6)<\/p>\n

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Girls 12-and-under Doubles final<\/strong><\/p>\n

Scarlett Dattoli<\/strong> (VIC) \/ Sara Nikolic<\/strong> (WA) defeated<\/p>\n

Renee Alame<\/strong> (NSW) \/ Brooke Komorowski<\/strong> (NSW) 6-4 2-6 (10-4)<\/p>\n

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Boys 12-and-under Doubles final<\/strong><\/p>\n

Nikolas Baker<\/strong> (VIC) \/ Lachlan King<\/strong> (VIC) defeated<\/p>\n

Flynn Coventry-Searle<\/strong> (NSW) \/ Har Abir Sekhon<\/strong> (NSW) 6-4 6-3<\/p>\n

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Image: Oscar Andrews (ACT)<\/em><\/p>\n

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The past week has seen Australia\u2019s most promising\u00a012\/u\u00a0and\u00a014\/u\u00a0juniors battling it out in\u00a0Canberra\u00a0for the\u00a02022 Australian Junior Claycourt Championships presented by Kia. The singles finals for the 12\/u and 14\/u boys and girls were completed today at\u00a0Canberra Tennis Centre, whilst the doubles champions were decided yesterday. \u201cEveryone has had a fantastic time here in Canberra this week. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6150,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17791","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\/6150"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17791\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}