{"id":3565,"date":"2012-07-05T10:46:05","date_gmt":"2012-07-05T01:16:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/?p=3565"},"modified":"2012-07-05T10:46:05","modified_gmt":"2012-07-05T01:16:05","slug":"86th-skycity-nt-open-championships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/news\/2012\/07\/05\/86th-skycity-nt-open-championships","title":{"rendered":"86th SKYCITY NT Open Championships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #0091d2\"><strong>Winners of the 86th SKYCITY NT Open Championships<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Emily Burns (QLD) and Ryan Palfrey (NT)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[4] Emily Burns (QLD) d [3] Breanna Tilly (QLD) 6-2 3-6 6-2<br \/>\nRyan Palfrey (NT) d [3] Darren Polkinghorne (SA) 6-4 6-1<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8221; I just wasn&#8217;t ready last week&#8230; Darren beat me comfortably in the Darwin Open so it could only get better&#8221;<\/em> said Palfrey when asked about his chances against Polkinghorne.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8221; I just started playing better and making more balls in that first set&#8230; I&#8217;ve pretty much won everything else on offer in the Territory, and I wanted this one pretty badly.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Other winners included:<br \/>\n<strong>Men&#8217;s Doubles<\/strong> &#8211; Joel Lindner (VIC) and Grant Silcock (QLD)<br \/>\n<strong>Women&#8217;s Doubles<\/strong> &#8211; Breanna Tilly and Emily Burns (QLD)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Boys 12 Singles<\/strong> &#8211; <span style=\"color: #0091d2\">Michael Shepheard (NT)<\/span><br \/>\n<strong>Girls 12 Singles<\/strong> &#8211; Lily Van Lent (QLD)<br \/>\n<strong>Boys 12 Doubles<\/strong> &#8211; <span style=\"color: #0091d2\">Nicholas Carmichael<\/span> and <span style=\"color: #0091d2\">Michael Shepheard (NT)<\/span><br \/>\n<strong>Girls 12 Doubles<\/strong> &#8211; Ellie Capannolo (VIC) and <span style=\"color: #0091d2\">Kailah Dunser (NT)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Boys 16 Singles<\/strong> &#8211; Luke Chigwidden (VIC)<br \/>\n<strong>Girls 16 Singles<\/strong> &#8211; Danielle McIntyre (VIC)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/files\/2012\/07\/RPalfreyBH.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-3578\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/files\/2012\/07\/RPalfreyBH-72x72.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"72\" height=\"72\" \/><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/files\/2012\/07\/Handshake.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-3577\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/files\/2012\/07\/Handshake-72x72.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"72\" height=\"72\" \/><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/files\/2012\/07\/DPolkinghorneBH.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-3576\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/files\/2012\/07\/DPolkinghorneBH-72x72.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"72\" height=\"72\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/files\/2012\/07\/EBurnsW.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-3581\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/files\/2012\/07\/EBurnsW-72x72.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"72\" height=\"72\" \/><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/files\/2012\/07\/NTOpenWinners.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-3580\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/files\/2012\/07\/NTOpenWinners-72x72.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"72\" height=\"72\" \/><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/files\/2012\/07\/RPalfreyW.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-3579\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/files\/2012\/07\/RPalfreyW-72x72.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"72\" height=\"72\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Winners of the 86th SKYCITY NT Open Championships Emily Burns (QLD) and Ryan Palfrey (NT) [4] Emily Burns (QLD) d [3] Breanna Tilly (QLD) 6-2 3-6 6-2 Ryan Palfrey (NT) d [3] Darren Polkinghorne (SA) 6-4 6-1 &#8221; I just wasn&#8217;t ready last week&#8230; Darren beat me comfortably in the Darwin Open so it could [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5924,"featured_media":3566,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[60,52,53,86],"class_list":["post-3565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-nt-open-championships","tag-ryan-palfrey","tag-skycity","tag-tennis-nt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3565","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=3565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3565\/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=3565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}