{"id":11892,"date":"2016-12-18T16:21:17","date_gmt":"2016-12-18T05:51:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/?p=11892"},"modified":"2016-12-18T16:21:43","modified_gmt":"2016-12-18T05:51:43","slug":"south-australias-charlotte-kempenaers-pocz-takes-home-2016-12-and-under-australian-junior-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/news\/2016\/12\/18\/south-australias-charlotte-kempenaers-pocz-takes-home-2016-12-and-under-australian-junior-title","title":{"rendered":"South Australia\u2019s Charlotte Kempenaers-Pocz takes home 2016 12\/u Australian junior title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Charlotte Kempenaers-Pocz<\/strong> (Glengowrie, SA) is the 2016 12-and-under Australian champion, after taking out the girls\u2019 title at Melbourne Park today.<\/p>\n<p>South Australia\u2019s No.1 12-year-old defeated third seed,\u00a0<strong>Hana Sonton<\/strong> (QLD), to win the tournament and become the state\u2019s second national champion in two weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Top seed, Kempenaers-Pocz didn\u2019t drop a set and lost only 19 games in her six matches en route to winning her maiden Australian junior title.<\/p>\n<p>After taking the first set 6-1, Kempenaers-Pocz continued to hold the momentum, swiftly making her way through the second set to win the championship 6-1 6-0.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI felt good and I felt relaxed, I put no pressure on myself. I stayed composed, I didn\u2019t show her anything and I played well.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wasn\u2019t playing as well as I could have during the week, but today was definitely one of my better days,\u201d Kempenaers-Pocz said following the match.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe team at Tennis SA are delighted to congratulate Charlotte on her win today,\u201d <strong>Steven Baldas<\/strong>, Tennis SA CEO said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt such a young age, Charlotte has had some outstanding results and it is great to see another of our young players performing so wonderfully on the national stage.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kempenaers-Pocz will now return to Adelaide for a break over Christmas before resuming tournament play in the New Year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charlotte Kempenaers-Pocz (Glengowrie, SA) is the 2016 12-and-under Australian champion, after taking out the girls\u2019 title at Melbourne Park today. South Australia\u2019s No.1 12-year-old defeated third seed,\u00a0Hana Sonton (QLD), to win the tournament and become the state\u2019s second national champion in two weeks. Top seed, Kempenaers-Pocz didn\u2019t drop a set and lost only 19 games [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5736,"featured_media":11893,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11892","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\/11892","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=11892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11892\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}