{"id":5336,"date":"2013-07-02T10:37:23","date_gmt":"2013-07-02T00:37:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/?p=5336"},"modified":"2013-07-02T10:37:23","modified_gmt":"2013-07-02T00:37:23","slug":"athlete-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/news\/2013\/07\/02\/athlete-development","title":{"rendered":"Athlete Development"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif\"><span style=\"color: #000000;font-size: small\"><span style=\"color: #000000\"><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif\"><span style=\"color: #009bdf\"><span style=\"color: #009bdf\"><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif\"><span style=\"color: #000000;font-size: small\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>It has been a quiet month for Athlete Development after what was a very successful May for both Ash Keir and Nick Kyrgios. Ashley has now left for Europe where she will compete in several ITF women\u2019s events whilst Nick unfortunately just missed out on a spot in Wimbledon qualifying and was not granted a wildcard by the Wimbledon committee. However Nick has had a successful lead in to Junior Wimbledon by winning the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.itftennis.com\/juniors\/tournaments\/tournament\/info.aspx?tournamentid=1100028191\" target=\"_blank\">AEGON Junior International Roehampton\u00a0\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0. Following \u00a0this success Nick has now won his first round\u00a0for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.itftennis.com\/juniors\/tournaments\/tournament\/info.aspx?tournamentid=1100029485\" target=\"_blank\">Junior Wimbledon <\/a>where he\u00a0is the No.1 seed in the singles draw<span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif\"><span style=\"color: #000000;font-size: small\"><span style=\"color: #000000\"><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif\"><span style=\"color: #009bdf\"><span style=\"color: #009bdf\"><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif\"><span style=\"color: #000000;font-size: small\"><span style=\"color: #000000\"><br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nNational Academy ACT athletes have been undergoing a 4 week training block here in Canberra, with a few working on some important technical changes and improvements to their strokes with an eye on building their technique and weapons for the long term which will enable them to be competitive on the professional circuit in a few years time.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nWe also welcome back to Canberra 4 former ACT Natioonal Academy scholarship holders in Todd Volmari, Andrew Zedde and Jake and Jarred Wynan, all who have returned to see family and friends. They have finished their 1st or 2nd seasons with US CollegeTennis Teams whilst they undertake university degrees.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nUpcoming events include the Rod LaverlLead in and main events followed by the ITF Junior events in Brisbane where ACT National Academy athletes will compete.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>. It has been a quiet month for Athlete Development after what was a very successful May for both Ash Keir and Nick Kyrgios. Ashley has now left for Europe where she will compete in several ITF women\u2019s events whilst Nick unfortunately just missed out on a spot in Wimbledon qualifying and was not granted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5910,"featured_media":5337,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5336","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\/5336","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=5336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5336\/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=5336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}