{"id":14853,"date":"2018-04-13T19:02:12","date_gmt":"2018-04-13T09:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/?p=14853"},"modified":"2018-04-13T19:02:12","modified_gmt":"2018-04-13T09:32:12","slug":"day-5-2018-12-u-and-14-u-australian-grasscourt-championships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/news\/2018\/04\/13\/day-5-2018-12-u-and-14-u-australian-grasscourt-championships","title":{"rendered":"Day 5 &#8211; 2018 12\/u and 14\/u Australian Grasscourt Championships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Day 5 started perfectly at the\u00a0<strong>2018 12\/u and 14\/u Australian Grasscourt Championships,\u00a0<\/strong>before the weather gods turned on us seeing play suspended late in the afternoon.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Edward Vo<\/strong>\u00a0(SA) defeated <strong>Eric Padgham<\/strong> (Qld) 6-4 6-2, while fellow South Aussie [4]\u00a0<strong>Edward Winter<\/strong> overcame <strong>Arden Jared De Melo<\/strong> (WA) 6-4 6-7(6) 6-4. The winner of the title will become the first player in the history of the national Grasscourt Championships to have won both the 12\/u and 14\/u titles with Vo and Winter having previously won the 12-and-under titles in 2016 and 2017 respectively.<\/p>\n<p>In the 14\/u Girls, top seed\u00a0<strong>Taylah Lawless<\/strong>\u00a0(NSW) had a convincing win over\u00a0<strong>Mia Tsoukalas<\/strong>\u00a0(NSW) 6-4 6-1, whilst [7] Jessica-Jade Haylo\u00a0(Qld) had a tougher time against\u00a0[2]<strong> Talia Gibson<\/strong>\u00a0(WA), eventually taking the win 7-5 1-6 6-3.<\/p>\n<p>[1] <b>Sarah Rokusek<\/b>\u00a0(NSW) defeated [5]\u00a0<strong>Sienna Lawson<\/strong>\u00a0(NSW) 6-2 6-0 to make her way to the 12\/u Girls final, where she will meet <strong>Baihe (Lily) Lin<\/strong>\u00a0(NSW) who defeated [6] <b>Roisin Toireasa Gilheany<\/b>\u00a0(Vic) 6-4 7-6(1). The 12\/u Boys final will be between the top two seeds after [1] <strong>Mudiwa Munyimani<\/strong> (Vic) defeated [4] <strong>Charlie Camus<\/strong> (ACT) 6-4 6-2 and [2] <strong>Jeremy Zhang<\/strong> (NSW) overcame [3] <strong>Cooper Errey<\/strong> (Vic) 6-2 6-7(5) 6-4.<\/p>\n<p>The doubles finals took place late this afternoon. [4]\u00a0<b>Errey<\/b>\/<strong>Nicolas Tremblay (NT)<\/strong> ended the great run of unseeded South Australian combination, <strong>David Reutlinger<\/strong>\/<strong>Michael Smith<\/strong>\u00a0with a 6-2 7-5 victory in the 12\/u Boys, whilst\u00a0in the 12\/u Girls, top seeds, <strong>Jessie Culley\/<\/strong><strong>Taylah Preston<\/strong> (WA) defeated third seeds, <strong>Sarah Rokusek<\/strong> (NSW)\/<strong>Lily Fairclough<\/strong> (WA) in a thrilling final 3-6 6-4 [10-7].<\/p>\n<p>The 14\/u doubles finals were interrupted by rain and will be completed tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>Day 6 will be singles finals day, with matches starting at 9.00 am.<\/p>\n<p>Updated singles draws, doubles draws and schedule for Saturday 14 April now available\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/2HmTW01\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Day 5 started perfectly at the\u00a02018 12\/u and 14\/u Australian Grasscourt Championships,\u00a0before the weather gods turned on us seeing play suspended late in the afternoon. Edward Vo\u00a0(SA) defeated Eric Padgham (Qld) 6-4 6-2, while fellow South Aussie [4]\u00a0Edward Winter overcame Arden Jared De Melo (WA) 6-4 6-7(6) 6-4. The winner of the title will become [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5736,"featured_media":14857,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14853","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\/14853","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=14853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14853\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}