By Todd Larkham<\/p>\n
Nick and his partner Andrew Harris (VIC) won several close matches (see below) and saved 3 match points in the quarter-finals en route to the title.\u00a0 Winning a Grand Slam in any event is truly a remarkable achievement. Have a look\u00a0 at some statistics below which shows just how amazing it is!<\/p>\n
Nick and Andrew’s path to the 2012 boys doubles title.<\/strong> Junior French Open Titles Australian Players hold the past 30 years (since 1982) Nick becomes the\u00a0only ACT\u00a0player to capture a FRENCH OPEN TITLE AT ANY LEVEL \u2013 EVER!!!!!<\/p>\n In the singles event, Nick narrowly lost in the 2nd round to Coppeljans (BEL) in 3 close sets, 7-5 in the third, after fighting back from 5-2 down in the final set. Coppeljans went on the win the boys singles title.<\/p>\n Nick\u2019s junior ranking rose from 37 to 17 after the event and he is currently competing in the Roehampton Junior event in the lead up to the Wimbledon Junior Championships \u2013 where Nick and Andrew will team up again. You can follow Nick\u2019s progress at www.itftennis.com<\/a>\u00a0or www.wimbledon.com<\/a><\/p>\n Well done to Nick’s coach Des Tyson – his current AIS coach and Canberra resident, for guiding the boys through to the title!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By Todd Larkham Nick and his partner Andrew Harris (VIC) won several close matches (see below) and saved 3 match points in the quarter-finals en route to the title.\u00a0 Winning a Grand Slam in any event is truly a remarkable achievement. Have a look\u00a0 at some statistics below which shows just how amazing it is! […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5910,"featured_media":4029,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4025","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\/4025","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\/5910"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4025\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nFinal def Pavlasek\/Safranek (CZE) \u2013 6\/4, 2\/6, 10-7
\nSemi-final def Couacad\/Favrot (FRA) \u2013 6\/1, 6\/3
\nQuarter-finals def Kadhe (IND)\/Herreros(PER) \u2013 6\/2, 5\/7, 11-9
\nRound of 16 def Bambride (UK)\/ Uchida (JPN) \u2013 5\/7, 6\/4, 10-8
\nRound of 32 def Ivora\/Labatto (ESP) \u2013 6\/4, 7\/5<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>
\n82 Boys Doubles Winners \u2013 Cash\/Frawley
\n88 Boys Doubles Winners \u2013 Woodbridge\/Stoltenberg
\n89 Boys Doubles Winners \u2013 Woodbridge\/Anderson
\n89 Girls Doubles Winner \u2013 Nicole Pratt
\n98 Girls Doubles Winner \u2013 Jelena Dokic
\n2008 Girls Doubles Winner \u2013 Jessica Moore
\nNick and Andrew become the 1st Australian Boys Pair to win the title since Woodbridge\/Anderson back in 1989!<\/p>\n