{"id":12698,"date":"2017-04-13T21:52:51","date_gmt":"2017-04-13T12:22:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/?p=12698"},"modified":"2017-04-13T21:56:10","modified_gmt":"2017-04-13T12:26:10","slug":"2017-12u-and-14u-australian-grasscourt-championships-finals-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/news\/2017\/04\/13\/2017-12u-and-14u-australian-grasscourt-championships-finals-day","title":{"rendered":"Finals Day &#8211; 2017 12\/u and 14\/u Australian Grasscourt Championships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Day 6 has been a spectacular day and a fitting finale for the <strong>2017 12\/u and 14\/u Australian Grasscourt Championships. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In the 12-and-under boys, [2]\u00a0<strong>Edward Winter<\/strong>\u00a0(SA) took the first set comfortably 6-2 against [7]\u00a0<strong>Doni Gashi\u00a0<\/strong>(SA). Gashi fought hard, but Winter continued to hold the momentum, winning the second set 6-1 and claiming the 12-and-under boys\u2019 Australian Grasscourt\u00a0championship.<\/p>\n<p>The 14-and-under boys was a tight encounter. [4]\u00a0<strong>Tai Sach<\/strong>\u00a0(Qld) took the first set 6-2, but came up against a fighting opponent in [3] <strong>Cooper White<\/strong> (Vic) who took the second set 6-3. Sach came back to win the third set 6-1 and take the title.<\/p>\n<p>Top seed\u00a0<strong>Hana Sonton<\/strong>\u00a0(Qld) had a relatively straightforward victory over second seed\u00a0<strong>Catherine Aulia<\/strong>\u00a0(NSW) 6-2 6-1 to claim the 12-and-under girls\u2019 title, whilst in the longest match of the morning, [5] <strong>Charlotte Kempenaers-Pocz<\/strong> (SA) got off to a great start taking the first set 6-3, however top seed <strong>Tina Smith<\/strong> (Qld) came back to win the next two sets 7-5 6-3 to take the 14-and-under girls\u2019 championship.<\/p>\n<p>A huge thank you to all of the athletes, parents, grandparents, relatives and coaches for being a part of the tournament. Thank you also to our Tournament Director &#8211; Francis Soyer, Tournament Referee &#8211; Jan Walczak, Chair Umpire Coach &#8211; Emma Walter, Physiotherapists &#8211; Anita Bruce and Cara Gleeson, and to all of the Chair Umpires, Court Supervisors and Line Umpires who have worked the event.<\/p>\n<p>Our sincere thanks to the Berri-View Lawn Tennis Club for hosting this week\u2019s event, your support is greatly appreciated.<\/p>\n<p>Finalised draws and results now available\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/tournaments.tennis.com.au\/sport\/tournament.aspx?id=12F66EB7-6E57-414B-AE9C-9EEBB9B1D8D5\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Day 6 has been a spectacular day and a fitting finale for the 2017 12\/u and 14\/u Australian Grasscourt Championships. In the 12-and-under boys, [2]\u00a0Edward Winter\u00a0(SA) took the first set comfortably 6-2 against [7]\u00a0Doni Gashi\u00a0(SA). Gashi fought hard, but Winter continued to hold the momentum, winning the second set 6-1 and claiming the 12-and-under boys\u2019 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5736,"featured_media":12699,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12698","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\/12698","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=12698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12698\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}