Kassandra Dunser has reached her first ITF Junior singles final at the Auckland 18\/U ITF Summer Championships.<\/p>\n
Dunser defeated the 13th<\/sup>, 8th<\/sup> and 5th<\/sup> seeds on her way to the finals, overcoming a slow start to defeat doubles partner Samantha Harris (VIC) in\u00a0the semi-finals\u00a02-6 6-3 6-3.<\/p>\n Dunser will face tough opposition in the finals against 4th<\/sup> seed Abbie Myers (NSW), who defeated tournament top seed Brooke Rischbieth (SA) in the other semi.<\/p>\n In the doubles, Dunser advanced to her \u00a0third ITF doubles final with a convincing win over Natsumi Chimura (JPN) and Celine Lenertz (NSW) 6-4 6-2 in the semi-finals. However, Dunser and Harris lost the battle of the Aussies going down to top seeds Brooke Rischbieth (SA) and Abbie Myers (NSW) 3-6 1-6 in the final.<\/p>\n Singles Results Doubles Results<\/strong> Kassandra Dunser has reached her first ITF Junior singles final at the Auckland 18\/U ITF Summer Championships. Dunser defeated the 13th, 8th and 5th seeds on her way to the finals, overcoming a slow start to defeat doubles partner Samantha Harris (VIC) in\u00a0the semi-finals\u00a02-6 6-3 6-3. Dunser will face tough opposition in the finals against […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5924,"featured_media":1788,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[38],"class_list":["post-1787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-kassandra-dunser"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5924"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1787\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n<\/strong>Rd 64 – Bye
\nRd 32 \u2013 Riko Tachibana (JPN) 6-1 6-2
\nRd 16 \u2013 [13] Celine Lenertz (NSW) 6-4 6-1
\nQ\/F \u2013 [8] Verena Scott (GBR) 7-5 6-4
\nS\/F \u2013 [5] Samantha Harris (VIC) 2-6 6-3 6-3
\nF \u2013 [4] Abbie Myers (NSW)<\/p>\n
\nwith Samantha Harris (VIC)
\n<\/em>Rd 32 \u2013 Bye
\nRd 16 \u2013 Hourigan \/ Parapunova (NZL) 6-3 6-4
\nQ\/F \u2013 Furukawa \/ Saito (JPN) 6-0 6-3
\nS\/F \u2013 [6] Chimura (JPN) \/ Lenertz (NSW) 6-4 6-2
\nF \u2013 [1] Rischbieth (SA) \/ Myers (NSW) 3-6 1-6<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"