{"id":7262,"date":"2015-05-14T12:49:20","date_gmt":"2015-05-14T02:49:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/?p=7262"},"modified":"2015-05-14T12:49:20","modified_gmt":"2015-05-14T02:49:20","slug":"act-finish-in-6th-position-at-pizzey-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/news\/2015\/05\/14\/act-finish-in-6th-position-at-pizzey-cup","title":{"rendered":"ACT finish in 6th position at Pizzey Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/files\/2015\/05\/Pizzey-Cup-Team2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/files\/2015\/05\/Pizzey-Cup-Team2.jpg\" alt=\"Pizzey Cup Team2\" width=\"410\" height=\"263\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The ACT team has finished in 6th position at the 2015 Australian School Sport Championships (Pizzey Cup).\u00a0 The event was held\u00a0at the Domain Tennis Centre in\u00a0Hobart from the 2-9th of May.<\/p>\n<p>In the first round, ACT started off a with a tough match against WA, going down by 26 sets to 7, with Dimitri Morogiannis and Imogen Clews picked up impressive wins at the top spots.\u00a0 On day 2 the ACT faced off against Queensland in a highly competitive match.\u00a0 After the singles matches, Queensland were only up by 3 sets, however they proved too strong in the doubles, taking all 6 matches to win 20 sets to 11.\u00a0 Round 3 saw them take on eventual winners NSW, who had too much fire power for the ACT.\u00a0 Imogen Clews picked up an impressive win at the number 1 spot, while Yuki Okamoto and Jack Fuller took sets off their opponents, with the team going down 28 sets to 4.<\/p>\n<p>The next day they backed up against Victoria, who finished in second spot overall.\u00a0 Violet Marriott was the only player to gain a victory, with Victoria taking a 27 to 4 win.\u00a0 Round 5 saw the ACT take on the host state Tasmania.\u00a0 Yuki Okamoto and Alexander De Jong picked up early victories for the ACT, and 3 doubles pairs had wins, but ultimately Tassie took the match 23 sets to 8.<\/p>\n<p>On the last day ACT took on South Australia.\u00a0\u00a08 singles\u00a0players and 4 doubles pairings had victories to end the event on a high note, with ACT defeating SA by 23 sets to 11.<\/p>\n<p>The Tennis Australia Cup was also held during the week, which is an individual event that all players participated in.\u00a0 In the Girls draw, Imogen Clews progressed to the quarter finals before going down in a supertiebreaker to NSW&#8217;s Gabriella Da Silva-Fick.\u00a0 Alexander De Jong was the best performing boy, reaching the round of 16.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to Imogen Clews who was named in the Australian Merit team based on her performances during the week.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to the team below.<\/p>\n<table style=\"height: 223px\" width=\"382\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>\u00a0Girls<\/td>\n<td>\u00a0Boys<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\u00a0Imogen Clews<\/td>\n<td>\u00a0Yuki Okamoto<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\u00a0Jacinta Pang<\/td>\n<td>\u00a0Dimitri Morogiannis<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\u00a0Stephanie Pang<\/td>\n<td>\u00a0Alexander De Jong<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\u00a0Tallulah Farrow<\/td>\n<td>\u00a0Heath Bortolin<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\u00a0Leah Williamson<\/td>\n<td>\u00a0Jack Fuller<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\u00a0Violet Marriott<\/td>\n<td>\u00a0Zac Donaldson<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\u00a0Amy Heiden<\/td>\n<td>\u00a0Nathan Lynham<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\u00a0Mia Ratkovic<\/td>\n<td>\u00a0Ben Ferguson<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ACT team has finished in 6th position at the 2015 Australian School Sport Championships (Pizzey Cup).\u00a0 The event was held\u00a0at the Domain Tennis Centre in\u00a0Hobart from the 2-9th of May. 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