{"id":11849,"date":"2016-12-08T18:00:36","date_gmt":"2016-12-08T07:30:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/?p=11849"},"modified":"2016-12-09T09:09:21","modified_gmt":"2016-12-08T22:39:21","slug":"south-australias-edward-vo-takes-home-second-australian-junior-title-for-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/news\/2016\/12\/08\/south-australias-edward-vo-takes-home-second-australian-junior-title-for-2016","title":{"rendered":"South Australia\u2019s Edward Vo takes home second Australian junior title for 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Edward Vo<\/strong> (Croydon Park, SA) is the 2016 14-and-under Australian champion, after taking out the boys\u2019 title at Melbourne Park today.<\/p>\n<p>Forced inside due to rain, South Australia\u2019s No.1 13-year-old defeated <strong>Chen Dong<\/strong> (QLD) 6-2 6-2 to win the tournament.<\/p>\n<p>Vo, seeded 15th, dropped just one set en route to winning his second Australian junior title for 2016, after taking out the 12-and-under Australian Grasscourt Championship in April.<\/p>\n<p>After taking the first set 6-2, Vo continued to hold the momentum and following an injury timeout for his opponent, took a 5-2 lead in the second set with a backhand winner down the line. Vo then completed the match in the same way, taking the second set 6-2 to win the championship.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI feel great. I was expecting myself to maybe reach at least round three (in this event) but then the way I was performing today and throughout this whole tournament, I was playing well. And then that gave me the<br \/>\nself-confidence to keep on winning,\u201d Vo said following the match.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe team at Tennis SA are delighted to congratulate Eddie on his win today,\u201d <strong>Steven Baldas<\/strong>, Tennis SA CEO said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEddie has had an outstanding year and it is fantastic to see our young players performing so admirably on the national stage.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Vo will now remain in Melbourne to take his place in the South Australian squad for this weekend\u2019s 14-and-under Australian Teams Championship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Edward Vo (Croydon Park, SA) is the 2016 14-and-under Australian champion, after taking out the boys\u2019 title at Melbourne Park today. Forced inside due to rain, South Australia\u2019s No.1 13-year-old defeated Chen Dong (QLD) 6-2 6-2 to win the tournament. Vo, seeded 15th, dropped just one set en route to winning his second Australian junior [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5736,"featured_media":11850,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5736"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11849\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}