{"id":8017,"date":"2015-12-10T19:40:10","date_gmt":"2015-12-10T08:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/?p=8017"},"modified":"2015-12-10T19:40:10","modified_gmt":"2015-12-10T08:40:10","slug":"poulos-finishes-as-runner-up-at-australian-championships-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/news\/2015\/12\/10\/poulos-finishes-as-runner-up-at-australian-championships-2","title":{"rendered":"Poulos finishes as runner up at Australian Championships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>12 year old Annerly Poulos, has had an outstanding week making the finals of the 14\/U Australian Championships at the December Showdown in Melbourne.\u00a0 Playing against players 2 years her senior, Poulos made her mark with several impressive victories throughout the week.\u00a0 In the quarter finals she defeated number 3 Olivia Gadecki, 1-6, 6-3, 6-4.\u00a0 Gadecki is ranked number 1 in Australia for the 13 year age group.<\/p>\n<p>In the semi finals, she defeated number 2 seed, Madison Bishop from South Australia, 6-3, 3-6, 7-5.\u00a0 Bishop is currently ranked number 2 in Australia for the 14 year age group.<\/p>\n<p>In the final she faced number 1 seed and the top 14 year old in the country, Amber Marshall.\u00a0 Marshall who hadn\u2019t dropped a set all week, continued her good form, edging Poulos out in a tight match 7-6, 7-5.<\/p>\n<p>Poulos will now represent the ACT in the 14\/U Australian Teams Championships alongside Matina Ujdur.\u00a0 Sam Bisa, Jack Lyons, and Daniel Zhang will play in the 14\/U Boys team championships.\u00a0 The 12 Girls will be represented by Alyssa Simoncini, Ashleigh Simes, and Chloe Koundouris, while the 12 Boys will feature Sam Bisa, Jack Lyons, and Daniel Zhang.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>12 year old Annerly Poulos, has had an outstanding week making the finals of the 14\/U Australian Championships at the December Showdown in Melbourne.\u00a0 Playing against players 2 years her senior, Poulos made her mark with several impressive victories throughout the week.\u00a0 In the quarter finals she defeated number 3 Olivia Gadecki, 1-6, 6-3, 6-4.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5789,"featured_media":8018,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8017","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\/8017","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=8017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8017\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}