{"id":4429,"date":"2013-04-12T09:31:08","date_gmt":"2013-04-12T00:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/?p=4429"},"modified":"2013-04-12T09:31:08","modified_gmt":"2013-04-12T00:01:08","slug":"shepheard-shows-determination-on-the-dirt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/news\/2013\/04\/12\/shepheard-shows-determination-on-the-dirt","title":{"rendered":"Shepheard Shows Determination on the Dirt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Shepheard displayed a great deal of determination in his second and third round robin singles matches at the <a href=\"http:\/\/tournaments.tennis.com.au\/sport\/tournament.aspx?id=CAD017C1-8340-4B9D-8006-3729141F058F\" target=\"_blank\">Optus 12s National Claycourt Championships <\/a>in Ipswich.<\/p>\n<p>With both singles matches being played yesterday, Shepheard bounced back\u00a0to claim victory\u00a0in the third round robin match after narrowly going down to twelfth seed Jack Clements of Victoria in his first match.<\/p>\n<p>Shepheard finished second his is pool and will now contest for 9 &#8211; 16 position.<\/p>\n<p>Shepheard and doubles partner Sean Van Rensburg are still pushing through in the Boys doubles, advancing to the quarter-finals with a great win over Victorian pairing of Butera\/Spaull. The boys will now face another Victorian team and eight seeds Thomas Bosancic and Jack Clements for a place in the semi-finals.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Round Robin Singles<\/strong> &#8211; seeded 5<br \/>\nlost to [12] Jack Clements (VIC)\u00a06-3 3-6 6-7 (5)<br \/>\ndefeated Joshua Kaplin (NSW) 6-1 7-6 (8)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Elimination Doubles<\/strong> &#8211; seeded 3<br \/>\n<em>with Sean Van Rensbury (SA)<\/em><br \/>\ndefeated Justin Butera \/ Joshua Spaull (VIC) 6-4 6-2<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Shepheard displayed a great deal of determination in his second and third round robin singles matches at the Optus 12s National Claycourt Championships in Ipswich. With both singles matches being played yesterday, Shepheard bounced back\u00a0to claim victory\u00a0in the third round robin match after narrowly going down to twelfth seed Jack Clements of Victoria in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5924,"featured_media":4296,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[147],"class_list":["post-4429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-optus-national-claycourt-championships"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4429","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=4429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4429\/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=4429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}