{"id":2784,"date":"2011-07-13T14:53:14","date_gmt":"2011-07-13T05:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/?p=2784"},"modified":"2011-07-13T14:53:14","modified_gmt":"2011-07-13T05:23:14","slug":"junior-wimbledon-champion-returns-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/news\/2011\/07\/13\/junior-wimbledon-champion-returns-home","title":{"rendered":"A Junior Wimbledon champion returns home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>South Australia\u2019s Luke Saville (Barmera, SA) is set to arrive on home soil after being crowned this year\u2019s Junior Wimbledon champion.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThe 17 year-old became the first Australian to raise the boys\u2019 singles trophy since 2002 by overcoming local favourite Liam Broady (GBR) in a thrilling final. After also reaching the final of the Australian Open Junior Championships in January, the victory at Wimbledon has lifted Saville to No.2 in the ITF Junior world rankings.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nSaville and young Queenslander Ashleigh Barty (Springfield, Qld) created history at Junior Wimbledon by winning the boys\u2019 and girls\u2019 singles \u2013 the first time both titles have been won by Australians in the same year.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThe rising star will be welcomed home to South Australia by Hon Tom Kenyon, Minister for Recreation, Sport and Racing, and will be available tomorrow for the following media opportunity:\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n<strong>Date: <\/strong>Thursday 14 July 2011\u00a0<br \/>\n<strong>Time:<\/strong>\u00a01.00pm\u00a0<br \/>\n<strong>Venue:<\/strong>\u00a0Memorial Drive Tennis Centre, War Memorial Drive,\u00a0North Adelaide<br \/>\n<strong>Parking:<\/strong>\u00a0Available on site at the Memorial Drive Tennis Centre<br \/>\n<strong>Meet:<\/strong> Please meet Clare Chapman (available on 0412 484 453) from Tennis South Australia at the Tennis SA reception.<br \/>\n<strong>Opportunity: <\/strong>Luke Saville and Hon Tom Kenyon for interview and on-court photo \/ vision opportunities<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #0091d2\"><strong>For further media information please contact:\u00a0<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span>Arj Ganeshalingam, Tennis Australia, on 0432 001 249<br \/>\nClare Chapman, Tennis South Australia, on 0412 484 453<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tomorrow, Sports Minister to formally welcome Saville home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5915,"featured_media":2785,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2784","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\/2784","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=2784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2784\/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=2784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}