{"id":11995,"date":"2024-05-11T22:27:57","date_gmt":"2024-05-11T12:27:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/tas\/?p=11995"},"modified":"2024-05-11T22:34:51","modified_gmt":"2024-05-11T12:34:51","slug":"alicia-dale-makes-history-first-tasmanian-girl-to-win-the-australia-cup-in-44-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/tas\/news\/2024\/05\/11\/alicia-dale-makes-history-first-tasmanian-girl-to-win-the-australia-cup-in-44-years","title":{"rendered":"Alicia Dale makes history \u2013 First Tasmanian Girl to Win the Australia Cup in 44 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tasmania\u2019s Alicia Dale made history last night, becoming the first Tasmanian Girl to win the Australia Cup in 44 years.<\/p>\n<p>In the girls final, Dale went head-to-head with Juliet Santitto from Queensland and won the first set 6-1, lost the second 5-7, and then went on to win the tie break, 10-7.<\/p>\n<!-- see gallery_shortcode() in functions.php -->\n\t\t<div class=\"gallery__container\"><ul><li id=\"12004\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span data-picture  data-title=\"16\" data-alt=\"16\" data-description=\"Tasmania&#039;s Alicia Dale\" data-img=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/tas\/files\/2024\/05\/16-1-1024x768.png\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span data-src=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/tas\/files\/2024\/05\/16-1-175x175.png\"><\/span><span data-src=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/tas\/files\/2024\/05\/16-1-350x350.png\" data-media=\"(min-width:768px)\"><\/span><!--[if (lt IE 9) & (!IEMobile)]><span data-src=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/tas\/files\/2024\/05\/16-1-175x175.png\"><\/span><![endif]--><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/tas\/files\/2024\/05\/16-1-175x175.png\" alt=\"Tasmania's Alicia Dale\" \/><\/noscript>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/li><li id=\"12003\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span data-picture  data-title=\"17\" data-alt=\"17\" data-description=\"Queensland&#039;s Juliet Santitto\" data-img=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/tas\/files\/2024\/05\/17-1-1024x768.png\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span data-src=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/tas\/files\/2024\/05\/17-1-175x175.png\"><\/span><span data-src=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/tas\/files\/2024\/05\/17-1-350x350.png\" data-media=\"(min-width:768px)\"><\/span><!--[if (lt IE 9) & (!IEMobile)]><span data-src=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/tas\/files\/2024\/05\/17-1-175x175.png\"><\/span><![endif]--><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/tas\/files\/2024\/05\/17-1-175x175.png\" alt=\"Queensland's Juliet Santitto\" \/><\/noscript>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/li><li id=\"12002\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span data-picture  data-title=\"15\" data-alt=\"15\" data-description=\"Tasmania&#039;s Alicia Dale\" data-img=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/tas\/files\/2024\/05\/15-1024x768.png\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span data-src=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/tas\/files\/2024\/05\/15-175x175.png\"><\/span><span data-src=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/tas\/files\/2024\/05\/15-350x350.png\" data-media=\"(min-width:768px)\"><\/span><!--[if (lt IE 9) & (!IEMobile)]><span data-src=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/tas\/files\/2024\/05\/15-175x175.png\"><\/span><![endif]--><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/tas\/files\/2024\/05\/15-175x175.png\" alt=\"Tasmania's Alicia Dale\" \/><\/noscript>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/li><\/ul><\/div>\n<p>\u201cThe win feels really good; I&#8217;m really privileged that I was able to do it in my home in Tassie. I played this tournament a couple of years and I&#8217;ve always dreamt of being a winner here, so it feels incredible,&#8221; Alicia Dale said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;From here, I&#8217;ll be playing more tournaments on the mainland and trying to get entry into some international tournaments hopefully and see where it takes me,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>The last Tasmanian girl to win the trophy was Maree Booth in 1980.<\/p>\n<p>Tennis Tasmania is proud to host the Tennis National Championships on behalf of School Sport Australia.<\/p>\n<h3>Tasmania&#8217;s Australia Cup History<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Previous Tasmanian Winners:<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Girls:<\/strong><br \/>\n1980 Maree Booth TAS<\/p>\n<p><strong>Boys:<\/strong><br \/>\n1984 Richard Fromberg TAS<br \/>\n1988 Brett Richardson TAS<br \/>\n2016 Daniel Groom TAS<\/p>\n<p><strong>Previous Tasmanian Runner Ups:<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Girls:<\/strong><br \/>\n1978 Kerrie Byrne TAS<br \/>\n2009 Alyssa Hibberd TAS (current Coach of the 2024 Pizzey Cup Girls Team)<br \/>\n2015 Catherine Krueger TAS<\/p>\n<p><strong>Boys:<\/strong><br \/>\n1997 Sam Swan TAS<br \/>\n2005 Edward Bouchier TAS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasmania\u2019s Alicia Dale made history last night, becoming the first Tasmanian Girl to win the Australia Cup in 44 years. In the girls final, Dale went head-to-head with Juliet Santitto from Queensland and won the first set 6-1, lost the second 5-7, and then went on to win the tie break, 10-7. \u201cThe win feels [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6386,"featured_media":12002,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[293,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alicia-dale","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/tas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/tas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/tas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/tas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6386"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/tas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/tas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11995\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/tas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/tas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/tas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/tas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}