Australia has defeated Great Britain to finish third in the junior teams event at the 2011 World Team Cup (25 April to 1 May) in Pretoria, South Africa.<\/p>\n
Keegan Oh-Chee (Eastwood, NSW), Henry de Cure (Glenelg North, SA) and Stephan Rochecouste (Glenfield, NSW) made up the victorious side.<\/p>\n
Australia had a shaky start to their bronze medal campaign after de Cure experienced a 4-6 3-6 loss to Dermot Bailey (GBR).<\/p>\n
However, Oh-Chee put Australia on to the scoreboard, defeating Briton Josh Steels 6-1 6-3.<\/p>\n
Doubles outfit de Cure and Oh-Chee sealed Australia\u2019s podium position with a comfortable 6-4 6-1 win over Bailey and Steels.<\/p>\n
\u201cI feel really happy proud of our bronze medal win,\u201d de Cure said.\u00a0 \u201cI played really well this tournament and only had one match where I didn\u2019t play my best.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhilst in South African we also did a lot of off court activity too. We went on a safari and had dinner on Anzac Day with the Australian High Commissioner to South Africa, Her Excellency Ms Ann Harrap, we all had a lot of fun and it was a great team environment,\u201d de Cure added.<\/p>\n
In other results The Netherlands placed second behind Spain, who were crowned the 2011 Junior World Team Cup champions.<\/p>\n
The Australian senior team finished in 12th<\/sup> position in the Men\u2019s World Group 1 division and was represented by Ben Weekes (Strathfield, NSW), Richard Engles (Kogarah, NSW) and Michael Dobbie (Thornbury, Vic).<\/p>\n Further media information:\u00a0 South Australian, Henry de Cure finished third in the junior teams event at the 2011 World Team Cup (25 April to 1 May) in Pretoria, South Africa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5915,"featured_media":2307,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2305","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\/2305","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\/5915"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2305\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n<\/em>Sarah-Lucy Rice, Tennis Australia, on 0432 001 248<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"