South Australian juniors flew the flag high in Melbourne at the 79th Glen Iris Underage Championship last week.<\/p>\n
A 12\/under tour was undertaken with nine South Australian athletes competing in the Gold OJT.<\/p>\n
South Australian Jeanette Lin<\/strong> won the 12\/U singles title in comfortable fashion 6\/3, 6\/0 against Victorian Jessica Zaviacic<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Athlete Development Manager Rohan Fisher<\/strong> said \u201cJeanette improved with every match throughout the week.\u00a0 Jeanette\u2019s attitude was an important facet to the week and she played the semi-final and final in a real positive manner\u201d.<\/p>\n Jeanette then made it a double, winning the doubles with fellow South Australia Selina Turulja<\/strong>. Indi-Arna Morris<\/strong> finished 4th in the singles, Selina Turulja finished 5th and Tahlia Van Der Eerden<\/strong> finished 6th.<\/p>\n \u201cThe Glen Iris Tournament is a great yard stick for our girls\u201d Fisher said and he was excited with the progression being made by these girls in the past 12 months.<\/p>\n South Australian boys Joonky Nah & Sean Van Rensburg continued the winning success on the final day by taking out the 12\/U doubles title. Nah & Van Rensburg defeated Ted Williams and Cooper Wyett 6\/2, 6\/4 in the final. Other members of the tour were Vanessa Cozamanis, Sebastian Flock & Isabella Ryles.<\/p>\n National Talent Development Coaches Sharon Hambly and Sam Wall<\/strong> were the travelling coaches with Fisher.<\/p>\n \u201cIt is great to travel with our athletes and quality coaches to these events\u201d Fisher stated.<\/p>\n \u201cWe were able to undertake team meetings each night after dinner which really helped set the tone for the next day\u201d.<\/p>\n The athletes cooked in the room most nights, made their own lunches and snacks throughout the week as well.<\/p>\n \u201cIt was a great trip and we look forward to doing it again next year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" SA Juniors find success at 79th Glen Iris Underage Championship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5915,"featured_media":4546,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4545","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\/4545","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=4545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4545\/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=4545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}