{"id":7950,"date":"2015-03-04T12:59:17","date_gmt":"2015-03-04T03:29:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/?p=7950"},"modified":"2015-03-04T12:59:17","modified_gmt":"2015-03-04T03:29:17","slug":"jang-takes-home-the-inaugural-2015-clare-valley-tennis-international-singles-crown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/news\/2015\/03\/04\/jang-takes-home-the-inaugural-2015-clare-valley-tennis-international-singles-crown","title":{"rendered":"Jang takes home the inaugural 2015 Clare Valley Tennis International singles crown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday saw the <strong>2015 Clare Valley Tennis International<\/strong> singles final played in perfect conditions at Clare Tennis Club.<\/p>\n<p>The finalists had been decided on a blustery semi-final day, with No.1 seed <strong>Su Jeong Jang (KOR)<\/strong> defeating qualifier <strong>Jennifer Elie (USA)<\/strong> 6-2 6-1 and seventh seed <strong>Pia Konig (AUT)<\/strong> defeating eighth seed <strong>Yan Wang (CHN)<\/strong> in a tight match 6-3 1-6 6-3.<\/p>\n<p>In an entertaining final, Jang raced to the lead taking the first set six games to three. Konig fought hard however Jang was just too strong and consistent, winning the championship in straight sets, 6-3 6-3.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter nine days of play, it was great to have such a fantastic final between Su Jeong and Pia,\u201d said <strong>Breanna Hassam<\/strong><strong>,<\/strong> 2015 Clare Valley Tennis International Tournament Director.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur congratulations to the staff and officials who worked tirelessly behind the scenes to put this event together. To create an event of this standard in its first year is simply an outstanding achievement,\u201d added Hassam.<\/p>\n<p>The doubles draw has also come to a conclusion with the final played in front of a great crowd late on Friday afternoon. In a high quality affair, Australian <strong>Jessica Moore<\/strong> and partner <strong>Jennifer Elie<\/strong> took home the title, defeating the second seeded Japanese pairing of <strong>Mana Ayukawa<\/strong> and <strong>Kotomi Takahata<\/strong> 4-6 6-2 10-8.<\/p>\n<p>The Clare Valley Tennis International is part of the 2015 Australian Pro Tour, a series of professional tennis events that bridge junior tournaments and the WTA Tour, providing an opportunity for players to earn their first world ranking points.<\/p>\n<p>For more information about the Australian Pro Tour, Tennis Australia or the players visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\">www.tennis.com.au<\/a>. For more information on the ITF Pro Circuit visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.itftennis.com\">www.itftennis.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For Australian Pro Tour score updates follow <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/oztennisresults\">@oztennisresults<\/a> on Twitter. For all tennis news follow <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TennisAustralia\">@tennisaustralia<\/a> or like us on Facebook.<\/p>\n<p>For ITF Pro Circuit updates follow <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/ITFprocircuit\">@ITFprocircuit<\/a> on Twitter or like ITF Pro Circuit on Facebook.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday saw the 2015 Clare Valley Tennis International singles final played in perfect conditions at Clare Tennis Club. The finalists had been decided on a blustery semi-final day, with No.1 seed Su Jeong Jang (KOR) defeating qualifier Jennifer Elie (USA) 6-2 6-1 and seventh seed Pia Konig (AUT) defeating eighth seed Yan Wang (CHN) in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5915,"featured_media":7951,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7950","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\/7950","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=7950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7950\/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=7950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}