{"id":7920,"date":"2015-11-29T15:10:43","date_gmt":"2015-11-29T04:10:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/?p=7920"},"modified":"2015-11-29T15:11:29","modified_gmt":"2015-11-29T04:11:29","slug":"7920","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/news\/2015\/11\/29\/7920","title":{"rendered":"Velocity women claim top spot, season over for the men"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Canberra Velocity <\/strong>women have defeated the Western Sydney Warriors <\/strong>5-1 today in Sydney to claim top spot in North Pool B. After losing to the Warriors 4-2 last week, the Velocity team were in top form, winning 4 of the 6 matches in straight sets. The Velocity men were unable to repeat last week\u2019s victory over the Warriors, losing today\u2019s match 5-1 and ending their finals hopes.<\/p>\n

Alison Bai <\/strong>put Velocity out to an early lead with a 4-1, 4-3 victory over Alexandra Bozovic. Natalie Barbir <\/strong>then levelled the scores with a tight victory over Tyra Calderwood <\/strong>with all three sets going to a tiebreak. Ashley Keir <\/strong>defeated Rebecca Jones, <\/strong>while 12 year old Annerly Poulos <\/strong>notched up another impressive win against Lucie Kriegsmannova. <\/strong>In the doubles Alexandra Nancarrow <\/strong>and Bai defeated Bozovic and Jones, while Keir and Calderwood accounted for Kriegsmannova and Jess Engels. <\/strong><\/p>\n

The victory claimed top spot on the North Pool B ladder, and will see Velocity face the second place team in Pool A, which is still to be determined with matches taking place in Queensland later today.<\/p>\n

With the Western Sydney Warriors and Canberra Velocity men sitting in 2nd<\/sup> and 3rd<\/sup> spot going into today\u2019s match, a finals berth was on the line. Both teams were without number one players in Jake Eames <\/strong>(Velocity) and Jake Delaney <\/strong>(Warriors) for today\u2019s match.<\/p>\n

James Frawley<\/strong> got Velocity out to a 1-0 lead, with a straight sets victory over David Barclay<\/strong>. Max Purcell <\/strong>then hit back for the Warriors, defeating Daniel Guccione <\/strong>in 3 sets. Cameron Smith <\/strong>then defeated Troy Lockwood, <\/strong>while, Blade Fong <\/strong>beat Alex Babanine <\/strong>in 3 sets to put the Warriors up 3-1. The Warriors then won both doubles to take the tie 5-1, clinching the last finals spot and ending the Velocity men\u2019s 2015-16 campaign.<\/p>\n

The Velocity women will travel to Queensland on Friday to play in the North Conference semi finals at 6pm at the Sunshine Coast Regional Tennis Centre.<\/p>\n

Canberra Velocity Men <\/strong>1 defeated by Western Sydney Warriors <\/strong>5<\/p>\n

Singles<\/strong><\/p>\n

No 1. Daniel Guccione (CV) l Max Purcell 3-4, 4-0, 4-2
\nNo 2. Alex Babanine (CV) l Blade Fong 4-3, 1-4, 4-1
\nNo 3. James Frawley (CV) d David Barclay 4-2, 4-2
\nNo 4. Troy Lockwood (CV) l Cameron Smith 4-1, 4-1<\/p>\n

Doubles<\/strong>
\nNo 1. Guccione\/Lockwood (CV) l Cameron Smith\/Blake Smith 4-3, 4-1
\nNo 2. Frawley\/Babanine (CV) l Purcell\/Barclay 4-0, 4-1<\/p>\n

Canberra Velocity Women 5<\/strong> defeated Western Sydney Warriors 1<\/strong><\/p>\n

Singles<\/strong><\/p>\n

No 1. Alison Bai (CV) d Alexandra Bozovic 4-1, 4-3
\nNo 2. Ashley Keir (CV) d Rebecca Jones 4-1, 4-3
\nNo 3. Tyra Calderwood (CV) l Natalie Barbir 4-3, 3-4, 4-3
\nNo 4. Annerly Poulos (CV) d Lucie Kriegsmannova 4-3, 0-4, 4-0<\/p>\n

Doubles<\/strong>
\nNo 1. Keir\/Calderwood (CV) d Engels\/Kriegsmannova 4-2, 4-3
\nNo 2. Nancarrow\/Bai (CV) d Bozovic\/Jones 4-1, 4-2<\/p>\n

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The Canberra Velocity women have defeated the Western Sydney Warriors 5-1 today in Sydney to claim top spot in North Pool B. After losing to the Warriors 4-2 last week, the Velocity team were in top form, winning 4 of the 6 matches in straight sets. The Velocity men were unable to repeat last week\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5789,"featured_media":7887,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7920","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\/7920","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\/5789"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7920\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}