{"id":29069,"date":"2023-07-21T06:11:51","date_gmt":"2023-07-20T20:41:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/?p=29069"},"modified":"2023-07-21T06:23:43","modified_gmt":"2023-07-20T20:53:43","slug":"rafa-nadal-tour-wraps-up-at-west-lakes-tennis-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/news\/2023\/07\/21\/rafa-nadal-tour-wraps-up-at-west-lakes-tennis-club","title":{"rendered":"Rafa Nadal Tour wraps up at West Lakes Tennis Club"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-29122\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/files\/2023\/07\/Rafa-Nadal-Tour-Winners-1-700x450.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"406\" height=\"261\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/files\/2023\/07\/Rafa-Nadal-Tour-Winners-1-700x450.png 700w, https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/files\/2023\/07\/Rafa-Nadal-Tour-Winners-1-360x230.png 360w, https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/files\/2023\/07\/Rafa-Nadal-Tour-Winners-1-200x128.png 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 406px) 100vw, 406px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The globally renowned\u00a0<strong>Rafa Nadal<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>Tour<\/strong> has completed its South Australian stop at West Lakes Tennis Club this week.<\/p>\n<p>The Rafa Nadal Tour is a junior tennis circuit launched in Spain in 2014. Running in Australia since 2019, it has a strong focus on sport and education combining the event aspect with dynamic and fun educational activities (classroom and physical). The Rafa Nadal Academy aims to share with the players their rationale and to establish strong fundamental values, which involves teaching and working towards the four main pillars of the tour.<\/p>\n<p><strong>HUMILITY:\u00a0<\/strong>Humility is the capacity to live your life with freedom from pride or arrogance, the quality or state of being humble.<br \/>\n<strong>RESILIENCE: <\/strong>Resilience is the ability to recover quickly from difficulties; to show toughness in adversity<br \/>\n<strong>SPORTSMANSHIP:\u00a0<\/strong>The appropriate and correct behaviour during the practice of any sport, as well as the acceptance of adverse situations willingly.<br \/>\n<strong>COMMITMENT:\u00a0<\/strong>The capacity that players have to acknowledge, get involved and accomplish something that has been previously agreed to.<\/p>\n<p>Junior players <strong>Nahla Salley<\/strong> and\u00a0<strong>Matthew Karam<\/strong>\u00a0won the 12\/u titles, while\u00a0<strong>Brooke Komorowski<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong>Tom Hillman<\/strong>\u00a0won the 14\/u titles at the tournament.<\/p>\n<p>The winning players, as well as the Trophy of Values winners progress to the end of season Rafa Nadal Masters event. The Trophy of Values recognises a player from each event that shows a positive attitude and behaviour on and off the court, and who lives the Values of the Rafa Nadal Tour.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are pleased to congratulate our winners of the Rafa Nadal Tour in South Australia,\u201d Tennis SA Tournament Director <strong>Jacinta O&#8217;Loughlin<\/strong>\u00a0said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe also congratulate our Trophies of Values winners, along with all players, for a wonderful week of tennis.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Rafa Nadal Tour focuses on sport and education, based around the four values of humility, resilience, sportsmanship and commitment,\u201d Rafa Nadal Tour Australia Manager\u00a0<strong>David Boyes<\/strong>\u00a0said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt has been fantastic to see so many players take part in the off-court activities aligned with these values, and to see so many fantastic matches take place here at West Lakes Tennis Club.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCongratulations to our winning players, along with our Trophy of Values winners.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur sincere thanks to all involved for a wonderful week here in South Australia.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Rafa Nadal Tour SA results<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>12\/u Boys final<br \/>\n<\/strong>[1] Matthew Karam def. [4] Elisha Wee 6-4 6-1<\/p>\n<p><strong>12\/u Girls final<br \/>\n<\/strong>[1] Nahla Salley def. [2]\u00a0 Oparah Rajakaruna 6-2 7-6 (6)<\/p>\n<p><strong>14\/u Boys final<br \/>\n<\/strong>[2] Tom Hillman def. [4] Charlie William Grainger 6-0 6-0<\/p>\n<p><strong>14\/u Girls final<br \/>\n<\/strong>[1] Brooke Komorowski def. [2] Taylor Glennon 6-2 6-4<\/p>\n<p><strong>16\/u Boys final<br \/>\n<\/strong>[1] Carter Macgowan def. [2] Wayne Teo 6-2 6-0<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Rafa Nadal Tour SA Trophy of Values recipients<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/em><strong>12\/u girls<\/strong>: Amelia Court<br \/>\n<strong>12\/u boys<\/strong>: Ash Ottewill<br \/>\n<strong>14\/u girls<\/strong>: Zara Freund<br \/>\n<strong>14\/u boys<\/strong>: Ashton Lim<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The globally renowned\u00a0Rafa Nadal\u00a0Tour has completed its South Australian stop at West Lakes Tennis Club this week. The Rafa Nadal Tour is a junior tennis circuit launched in Spain in 2014. Running in Australia since 2019, it has a strong focus on sport and education combining the event aspect with dynamic and fun educational activities [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5736,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29069","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=29069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29069\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}