{"id":18107,"date":"2020-12-14T11:59:57","date_gmt":"2020-12-14T00:59:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nsw\/?p=18107"},"modified":"2020-12-15T11:47:10","modified_gmt":"2020-12-15T00:47:10","slug":"rising-stars-at-the-utr-junior-state-performance-championships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nsw\/news\/2020\/12\/14\/rising-stars-at-the-utr-junior-state-performance-championships","title":{"rendered":"Rising stars at the UTR Junior State Performance Championships"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Players from NSW are taking part in the UTR Junior State Performance Championships, a new series event taking place at Gosford Tennis Centre from 6-19 December. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWhile it\u2019s been a tough year for tennis players, we\nare fortunate in Australia that through UTR we\u2019ve been able to continue to\nprovide competitive opportunities for both juniors and pro players,\u201d UTR Junior\nState Performance Championships manager <strong>Francis Soyer<\/strong> said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe know our junior players love any opportunity to\ncompete and come together with their peers, and we hope the UTR State\nPerformance Championships in each city provide a strong platform for juniors of\nall ages to do so in a fun and competitive way,\u201d Soyer added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From 6-11 December, 12\/U and 16\/U players took to the court and produced some great results. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Results: <\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>12\/U Boys Singles; Brian Donnelly defeated Cruz Hewitt 1-6 6-3 10-5<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>12\/U Girls Singles; Milena Jandera defeated Bhavya Bhardwaj 3-6 6-3 10-2<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>12\/U Boys Doubles; Phinn Suharto\/Ritviyah Uppal defeated Cruz Hewitt\/Chen Liang 6-2 0-6 10-6<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>12\/U Girls Doubles; Vesna Marinkov\/Milena Jandera defeated Natalie Gaft\/Sandra Stojanovic 4-6 7-5 13-11<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>16\/U Boys Singles; Nicholas De Vivo defeated Charlie Camus 6-3 7-6(5)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>16\/U Girls Singles; Baihe Lin defeated Sienna Leeson 6-1 6-2<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>16\/U Boys Doubles; Nicholas De Vivo\/Cooper Wilkinson defeated Nicholas Bigeni\/Haruto Ishikawa 6-1 6-2<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>16\/U Girls Doubles; Sarah Rokusek\/Gloria Jovic defeated Monica Petrusevski\/Sienna Leeson 7-6(2) 6-1<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The Wheelchair Event was a round robin event played over two days:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Winner \u2013 Benjamin Wenzel<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Runner-Up \u2013 Hayley Slocombe<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Another exciting week ahead with 14\/U and 18\/U age groups playing from 14-19 December. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Congratulations and good luck to all players competing! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Players from NSW are taking part in the UTR Junior State Performance Championships, a new series event taking place at Gosford Tennis Centre<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6180,"featured_media":18109,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nsw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nsw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nsw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nsw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6180"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nsw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nsw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18107\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nsw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nsw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nsw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nsw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}