{"id":12548,"date":"2017-03-21T11:15:54","date_gmt":"2017-03-21T00:45:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/?p=12548"},"modified":"2017-03-21T11:15:54","modified_gmt":"2017-03-21T00:45:54","slug":"sa-juniors-touch-down-in-new-delhi-for-junior-fed-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/news\/2017\/03\/21\/sa-juniors-touch-down-in-new-delhi-for-junior-fed-cup","title":{"rendered":"SA Juniors touch down in New Delhi for Junior Fed Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Photo and words thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/qld\/news\/2017\/03\/14\/gadecki-touches-down-in-new-delhi-for-junior-fed-cup\" target=\"_blank\">Tennis QLD<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>A world away form Australia,<strong>\u00a0Olivia Gadecki <\/strong>(Gold Coast)<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>and teammates\u00a0<strong>Amber Marshall<\/strong> (Gulfview Heights, SA) and <strong>Tayla Whitehouse<\/strong> (West Beach, SA) have arrived in <strong>New Delhi\u00a0<\/strong>for the\u00a0<strong>Junior Fed Cup by BNP Paribas Asia \/ Oceania Final Qualifying <\/strong>tournament under the\u00a0captaincy of <strong>Nicole Kriz.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Play begins after the Junior Davis Cup event, from March 20 \u2013 25.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Wally Masur<\/strong>, <strong>Tennis Australia\u2019s Director of Performance<\/strong>, believes the Junior Davis and Fed Cup will provide the youngsters with a great opportunity to gain invaluable experience on the global stage.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome of the world\u2019s best juniors will be in action at the Junior Davis Cup and Fed Cup, so this will be the perfect platform for our boys and girls to test themselves and show what they can do,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s also a great chance for them to get experience of being in a team environment and representing their country, so I\u2019m sure they will enjoy it and learn a lot.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Australia boasts a proud record in both the Junior Davis Cup and Junior Fed Cup, the international team competitions for players aged 16 and under. Since the tournaments began in 1985, Australia has won the Junior Davis Cup title six times, most recently in 2009, and the Junior Fed Cup title five times, most recently in 2011.<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>Junior Davis Cup \/ Fed Cup by BNP Paribas Finals<\/strong> will be held in Budapest, Hungary, from 18-23 September 2017.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo and words thanks to Tennis QLD A world away form Australia,\u00a0Olivia Gadecki (Gold Coast)\u00a0and teammates\u00a0Amber Marshall (Gulfview Heights, SA) and Tayla Whitehouse (West Beach, SA) have arrived in New Delhi\u00a0for the\u00a0Junior Fed Cup by BNP Paribas Asia \/ Oceania Final Qualifying tournament under the\u00a0captaincy of Nicole Kriz. Play begins after the Junior Davis Cup [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5870,"featured_media":12549,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12548","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\/12548","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\/5870"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12548\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}