{"id":9530,"date":"2016-09-28T15:08:36","date_gmt":"2016-09-28T05:08:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/?p=9530"},"modified":"2016-09-29T12:21:07","modified_gmt":"2016-09-29T02:21:07","slug":"first-national-junior-tournament-in-20-years-a-canberra-hit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/news\/2016\/09\/28\/first-national-junior-tournament-in-20-years-a-canberra-hit","title":{"rendered":"First National Junior Tournament in 20-years a Canberra Hit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Canberra Tennis Centre played host to the first National Junior Tournament held in Canberra for over 20-years, the <strong>12\/u and 14\/u Australian Claycourt Championships <\/strong>from 23 \u2013 28 September 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Second seed and 13-year-old local girl <strong>Annerly Poulos<\/strong> played the main draw 14\/u girls final, but was defeated in a close match by fourth seeded <strong>Zara Brancovic<\/strong> from NSW 6-7(3), 6-1, 7-6(2).<\/p>\n<p>This was the second junior tournament final in just over a week for Poulos, after defeating <strong>Tahlia Van Der Eerden<\/strong> from SA 7-6(2) 6-1 on 23 September to become the Canberra Junior International girls champion on September 23.<\/p>\n<p>Tournament Director, <strong>Francis Soyer<\/strong>, said everyone had such positive feedback about the Canberra Tennis Centre, and Canberra in general.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis has been a really positive event, with excellent facilities and top conditions all week,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019m really looking forward to making the 2017 event even better.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>128 participants played the 6-day tournament, with 32 boys and girls in each of the 4 events.<\/p>\n<p>The 12\/u &amp; 14\/u Australian Claycourt Championships was held at the Canberra Tennis Centre in Lyneham from 23 \u2013 28 September 2016.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Results<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Winners of Doubles Events<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>12\/u boys \u2013 Taj Hibbert (NSW) &amp; Ryan McConkey (WA)<\/li>\n<li>12\/u girls \u2013 Anastasia Berezov (NSW) &amp; Lauren Nikoloski (WA)<\/li>\n<li>14\/u boys \u2013 Cihan Akay (VIC) &amp; Stefan Storch (VIC)<\/li>\n<li>14\/u girls \u2013 Krystal Clarke (NSW) &amp; Natasha Russell (SA)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><em>Winners of Singles Events<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>12\/u Girls [1] &#8211; Anastasia Berezov (NSW) def. [2] Charlotte Kempenaers-Pocz (SA) 6-4 6-1<\/li>\n<li>12\/u Boys [2] &#8211; Alec Braund (QLD) def. [8] Amor Jasika (VIC) 4-6 6-3 6-2<\/li>\n<li>14\/u Girls [4] &#8211; Zara Brankovic (NSW) def. [2] Annerly Poulos (ACT) 6-7(3) 6-1 7-6(2)<\/li>\n<li>14\/u Boys [1] &#8211; Stefan Storch (VIC) def. [3] Stefan Milenkovic (VIC) 6-3 6-4<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Canberra Tennis Centre played host to the first National Junior Tournament held in Canberra for over 20-years, the 12\/u and 14\/u Australian Claycourt Championships from 23 \u2013 28 September 2016. Second seed and 13-year-old local girl Annerly Poulos played the main draw 14\/u girls final, but was defeated in a close match by fourth [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5971,"featured_media":9537,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9530","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\/9530","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=9530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9530\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}