{"id":7984,"date":"2015-12-04T22:35:20","date_gmt":"2015-12-04T11:35:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/?p=7984"},"modified":"2015-12-04T22:35:20","modified_gmt":"2015-12-04T11:35:20","slug":"canberra-velocity-destroy-blaze-qualify-for-atl-playoffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/news\/2015\/12\/04\/canberra-velocity-destroy-blaze-qualify-for-atl-playoffs","title":{"rendered":"Canberra Velocity destroy Blaze, qualify for ATL Playoffs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Canberra Velocity <\/strong>has destroyed the <strong>Beenleigh Blaze <\/strong>in the semifinals of the <strong>North Conference <\/strong>in the <strong>Asia-Pacific Tennis League. <\/strong>Velocity thumped the Blaze 6-0, and will play the <strong>Brisbane Sharks <\/strong>in Sunday\u2019s final. The win has also secured Velocity a place in the <strong>ATL Playoffs<\/strong> to be held in Melbourne in January.<\/p>\n<p>Velocity came out of the blocks quickly, with <strong>Alison Bai <\/strong>defeating <strong>Aleksa Cveticanin <\/strong>4-0, 4-2 at the top spot. <strong>Tyra Calderwood <\/strong>then made it 2-0 after defeating <strong>Lara Tupper, <\/strong>while <strong>Kaitlin Staines <\/strong>only dropped 2 games against <strong>Chloe Lowe. <\/strong>The Blaze\u2019s <strong>Chantal Jamieson <\/strong>took the first set against <strong>Ashley Keir, <\/strong>however Keir hit back, winning 4-1, 4-0 to clinch the win for Velocity.<\/p>\n<p>With the victory locked in, the women continued their impressive form with Keir and Calderwood winning in straight sets, while <strong>Alexandra Nancarrow <\/strong>and Bai won in 3.<\/p>\n<p>In Sunday\u2019s final, Velocity will face the Brisbane Sharks who defeated the <strong>Western Sydney Warriors. <\/strong>The Sharks feature WTA ranked players <strong>Priscilla Hon, Naikitha Bains, Lizette Cabrera <\/strong>and <strong>Ashling Sumner <\/strong>and are currently undefeated. By winning tonight, both Velocity and Sharks have booked a spot to the ATL playoffs in January.<\/p>\n<p>In speaking about the victory, team manager and player Nancarrow said \u201cThe team is feeling confident and pumped after a solid win tonight. We are also very excited to have the opportunity to compete in Melbourne\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The North Conference final will take place on Sunday 6 December at 1pm (AEST) at the Queensland Tennis Centre.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Canberra Velocity Women<\/strong> 6 defeated <strong>Beenleigh Blaze <\/strong>0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Singles<br \/>\n<\/strong>No 1. Alison Bai (CV) d Aleksa Cveticanin 4-0, 4-2<br \/>\nNo 2. Ashley Keir (CV) d Chantel Jamieson 3-4, 4-1, 4-0<br \/>\nNo 3. Tyra Calderwood (CV) d Lara Tupper 4-2, 4-2<br \/>\nNo 4. Kaitlin Staines (CV) d Chloe Lowe 4-2, 4-0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Doubles<\/strong><br \/>\nNo 1. Nancarrow\/Bai (CV) d Cveticanin\/Jamieson 1-4, 4-3, 5-2<br \/>\nNo 2. Keir\/Calderwood (CV) d Lowe\/Tupper 4-2, 4-1<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canberra Velocity has destroyed the Beenleigh Blaze in the semifinals of the North Conference in the Asia-Pacific Tennis League. Velocity thumped the Blaze 6-0, and will play the Brisbane Sharks in Sunday\u2019s final. The win has also secured Velocity a place in the ATL Playoffs to be held in Melbourne in January. Velocity came out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5789,"featured_media":7987,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7984","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\/7984","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=7984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7984\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}