{"id":5373,"date":"2013-01-14T20:00:42","date_gmt":"2013-01-14T10:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/?p=5373"},"modified":"2013-01-14T20:00:42","modified_gmt":"2013-01-14T10:30:42","slug":"wynn-vale-tennis-player-bradley-mousley-wins-hat-trick-of-national-junior-titles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/news\/2013\/01\/14\/wynn-vale-tennis-player-bradley-mousley-wins-hat-trick-of-national-junior-titles","title":{"rendered":"Wynn Vale tennis player Bradley Mousley wins hat-trick of national junior titles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>BRADLEY Mousley is celebrating after a hat-trick of titles at the Australian age tennis championships.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- google_ad_section_end(name=story_introduction) --><!-- \/\/ .story-intro --><!-- google_ad_section_start(name=story_body, weight=high) -->The Wynn Vale player took out the under-16s singles and two doubles titles at last month&#8217;s tournament in Melbourne.<\/p>\n<p>In a twist, Mousley played against his doubles partner Harry Bourchier in the singles final and won 6-7 7-5 6-3.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n&#8220;We just played our (singles) match and when we got off the court we were fine,&#8221; Mousley, who turned 17 this month, says.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Then we had to come out and play doubles together one and a half hours later.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Mousley also left his mark on the under-18s competition, winning the doubles and making the semi-finals of the singles.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;(The three titles) were one of my biggest achievements so far,&#8221; the Golden Grove Tennis Club member says.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was just happy to be playing well, instead of winning them.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s really set up my year and now I&#8217;ll play in all the junior grand slams &#8230; and hopefully improve my ranking.&#8221;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nMousley, who is No.2 in Australia for his age, is now focused on his next challenge.<\/p>\n<p>He will play in this week&#8217;s Australian Open Juniors at Melbourne Park.<\/p>\n<p>Mousley made it to the second round last year and is aiming to go one better.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have to play the best tennis I can because these kids are the best in the world for 18 (years) and under,&#8221; he says.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When I do start playing my best tennis, hopefully I can make the quarter-finals.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Mousley also aims to bring his world men&#8217;s ranking of 1150 down to 700 this year.<\/p>\n<p>He is coached by his father Craig Mousley and by National Academy Adelaide coach Milo Bradley.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BRADLEY Mousley is celebrating after a hat-trick of titles at the Australian age tennis championships. The Wynn Vale player took out the under-16s singles and two doubles titles at last month&#8217;s tournament in Melbourne. In a twist, Mousley played against his doubles partner Harry Bourchier in the singles final and won 6-7 7-5 6-3. \u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5915,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[24,39,40,41],"class_list":["post-5373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-bradley-mousley","tag-craig-mousley","tag-harry-bourchier","tag-milo-bradley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5373","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=5373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5373\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}