{"id":6406,"date":"2014-11-03T09:22:49","date_gmt":"2014-11-02T23:22:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/?p=6406"},"modified":"2014-11-03T09:22:49","modified_gmt":"2014-11-02T23:22:49","slug":"athlete-development-update-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/news\/2014\/11\/03\/athlete-development-update-6","title":{"rendered":"Athlete Development Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/files\/2014\/11\/D.Morogiannis-12.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6428\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/files\/2014\/11\/D.Morogiannis-12.jpg\" alt=\"D.Morogiannis 12\" width=\"405\" height=\"270\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>September &amp; October has seen a lot of ACT&#8217;s junior players back in action with 2 tournaments held in Canberra at the National Sports Club as well as the NSW Junior Championships Platinum event held in Sydney.<\/p>\n<p>The standout performer in these events was 11 year old Annerly Poulos. \u00a0Annerly reached her first final in a 12\/u singles Platinum event at the NSW Junior Champs (this event is like a National Title). Annerly won 2 hard fought 3 set matches in the quarter and semi-finals before going down to the No.1 seed in the final 6-2,6.3. Prior to this event, Annerly won the 12\/u girls singles at the Canberra Junior Open and also reached the final of the Women\u2019s White AMT singles \u2013 both held at the National Sports Club on the clay courts. Annerly is already ranked No.1 in Australia in her birth year and with these results has climbed to 390 in the Australian Rankings.<\/p>\n<p>There were many other standout results from Canberra&#8217;s elite junior and pro players in the past few weeks, here they are:<\/p>\n<p>Dimi Morogiannis<br \/>\n\u2013\u00a0\u00a0Quarter-finals 16\/u Boys Singles NSW Junior Championships<br \/>\n&#8211;\u00a0\u00a0 Winner 18\/u Boys Singles Gosford Junior Tour<\/p>\n<p>Tallulah Farrow<br \/>\n&#8211; Runner-up Armidale White AMT Women&#8217;s\u00a0&amp; 18\/u Girls Singles<br \/>\n&#8211;\u00a0Winner 16\/U Girls Singles Canberra Junior Open<\/p>\n<p>Sam Bisa &#8211; \u00a0Runner-up 12\/u Boys Singles Canberra Junior Open<\/p>\n<p>Ashleigh Simes &#8211; Runner\u2013up 12\/U Girls Singles Canberra Junior Open<\/p>\n<p>Luke Sarris \u2013 Winner 14\/U Boys Singles Canberra Junior Open<\/p>\n<p>Zac Donaldson \u2013 Winner 16\/u Boys Singles Canberra Junior Open<\/p>\n<p>Heath Bortolin &#8211; Runner\u2013up 16\/u Boys Singles Canberra Junior Open<\/p>\n<p>Leah Williamson &#8211; Runner\u2013up 16\/u Girls Singles Canberra Junior Open<\/p>\n<p>Alex Nancarrow<br \/>\n\u2013 Singles Runner-up $10,000 ITF event in Italy<br \/>\n&#8211; \u00a0Singles Semi Finalists at 2 x $10,000 events in Italy<\/p>\n<p>Alison Bai \u2013 Singles Quarter Finalists at $15,000 ITF\u2019s in Toowoomba and Cairns<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>September &amp; October has seen a lot of ACT&#8217;s junior players back in action with 2 tournaments held in Canberra at the National Sports Club as well as the NSW Junior Championships Platinum event held in Sydney. The standout performer in these events was 11 year old Annerly Poulos. \u00a0Annerly reached her first final in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5910,"featured_media":6428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6406","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\/6406","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=6406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6406\/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=6406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}