{"id":5615,"date":"2013-11-29T21:48:29","date_gmt":"2013-11-29T11:48:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/?p=5615"},"modified":"2013-11-29T21:48:29","modified_gmt":"2013-11-29T11:48:29","slug":"velocity-men-and-women-into-national-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/news\/2013\/11\/29\/velocity-men-and-women-into-national-final","title":{"rendered":"Velocity men and women into national final"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Canberra<\/a>Canberra Velocity\u2019s men\u2019s and women\u2019s team have stormed into the national final of the Asia-Pacific Tennis League tonight with convincing victories at Sydney Olympic Park.<\/span><\/p>\n

The women upset the undefeated Stanmore Wyverns four rubbers to two, while the men avenged last week\u2019s 5-1 drubbing against the Sydney Olympic Rebels, also winning 4-2.<\/span><\/p>\n

Alison Bai kicked off the winning night for Velocity, dropping only one game against Nicole Kriz, and Ashley Keir beat Deon Mladin 4-3 (5-3), 4-0.<\/span><\/p>\n

In the other singles matches, Tyra Calderwood won in a walkover against Julia Morairty 4-0, 4-0, while Nicole Hoynaski was edged out by Ange Svinos 4-1, 2-4, 3-4 (3-5).<\/span><\/p>\n

In the doubles, Bai-Keir were too good for Moriarty-Svinos winning \u00a04-0, 4-2, while Hoynaski-Calderwood lost a thrilling match in the super tiebreak 4-1, 2-4, (7-10).<\/span><\/p>\n

It was the second year in a row the Rebels and Velocity met in the NSW\/ACT Conference final, with the Rebels convincing winners last year.<\/span><\/p>\n

However, an under-strength Velocity, missing star Nick Kyrgios due to illness, avenged their loss in style tonight.<\/span><\/p>\n

Canberra\u2019s James Frawley put the first win on the board with an upset 4-0, 4-3 (5-3) victory against Adam Feeney, and former professional – now high performance coach – Alun Jones outclassed Ryan Henry, winning 4-2, 4-2.<\/span><\/p>\n

Rebels\u2019 Matt Reid didn\u2019t drop a game against Velocity\u2019s Robert Howe, while Canberra’s Jake Eames beat Jonnathon Cooper 4-2, 4-0.<\/span><\/p>\n

With a three rubbers to one lead entering the doubles, Velocity was only one set away from a national finals berth.<\/span><\/p>\n

Howe-Frawley were unable to secure victory against Reid-Feeney, losing 1-4, 1-4, while Eames-Jones snared the winning set against Henry and Luke Bourgeois and then the match, winning \u00a03-4 (4-5), 4-3 (5-3), (10-8). <\/span><\/p>\n

The Velocity duo came from 3-4, 2-3 down with Bourgeois serving for the match.<\/span><\/p>\n

Team captain Alun Jones said the winning double was great for Canberra tennis.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe couldn\u2019t have asked for a better result tonight,\u201d he says.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThis was a massive upset for the boys, it is like Paramatta beating the Roosters in the final.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cAt 3-2 down in the second set in the doubles, I went to the sidelines to find out what the equation was, and the boys told me we had to win the set or we\u2019d lose the tie. Jake and I just went into the zone and hardly missed a ball from that point on.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

The national final will be played at Melbourne Park during the Australian Open in January.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Canberra Velocity\u2019s men\u2019s and women\u2019s team have stormed into the national final of the Asia-Pacific Tennis League tonight with convincing victories at Sydney Olympic Park. The women upset the undefeated Stanmore Wyverns four rubbers to two, while the men avenged last week\u2019s 5-1 drubbing against the Sydney Olympic Rebels, also winning 4-2. Alison Bai kicked […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5910,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5615","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=5615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5615\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}