{"id":8988,"date":"2016-07-06T12:38:07","date_gmt":"2016-07-06T02:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/?p=8988"},"modified":"2016-07-06T12:38:07","modified_gmt":"2016-07-06T02:38:07","slug":"athlete-development-update-july-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/news\/2016\/07\/06\/athlete-development-update-july-2","title":{"rendered":"Athlete Development Update &#8211; July"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>16-year-old National Academy scholarship holder <strong>Kaitlin Staines<\/strong> led the way in June, with a fantastic two weeks of tournaments in Fiji.<\/p>\n<p>Staines was undefeated over a course 18 matches in a row, winning both the singles and doubles titles consecutively.<\/p>\n<p>As a result of her great results in Fiji, Staines is now ranked 170 in the world junior rankings.<\/p>\n<p>To gain a place in the main draw of the French Open and Wimbledon junior events in 2017, Staines is now on a mission to get her ranking inside the top 100 for the Australian Open juniors and inside the top 60 in the world.<\/p>\n<p>13-year-old <strong>Ashleigh Simes<\/strong> also took out a title in June, winning the 14\/u singles event at the Wollongong Gold Juniors.<\/p>\n<p>Simes is currently ranked No.7 in Australia for her age and should move up a couple of places when the new rankings come out on 8 July 2016.<\/p>\n<p>A big congratulations to <strong>Nick Kyrgios<\/strong> for his outstanding Wimbledon campaign. Kyrgios made it through to the fourth round for the third consecutive year. Well done Nick.<\/p>\n<p>In July, we welcome new athlete, <strong>Lisa Mays<\/strong> to the National Academy ACT. Lisa will take up a scholarship in Canberra\u00a0when\u00a0her dad relocates to Canberra\u00a0from Sydney\u00a0for work. If you see Lisa, please welcome her to our tennis community.<\/p>\n<h5><strong>More outstanding results from ACT players in June:<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p><strong>Ashley Keir<\/strong> &#8211; Winner, womens singles, Batemans Bay AMT<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dimi Morogiannis<\/strong> &#8211; Runner-up, boys singles, Fiji ITF<\/p>\n<p><strong>Imogen Clews<\/strong> &#8211; Semi-finalist, womens singles, Batemans Bay AMT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>16-year-old National Academy scholarship holder Kaitlin Staines led the way in June, with a fantastic two weeks of tournaments in Fiji. Staines was undefeated over a course 18 matches in a row, winning both the singles and doubles titles consecutively. As a result of her great results in Fiji, Staines is now ranked 170 in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5971,"featured_media":8994,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8988","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\/8988","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\/5971"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8988\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}