{"id":12358,"date":"2025-05-12T12:42:22","date_gmt":"2025-05-12T02:42:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/tas\/?p=12358"},"modified":"2025-05-12T13:17:06","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T03:17:06","slug":"alicia-dale-wins-back-to-back-australia-cup-titles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/tas\/news\/2025\/05\/12\/alicia-dale-wins-back-to-back-australia-cup-titles","title":{"rendered":"Alicia Dale Wins Back-to-Back Australia Cup Titles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tasmanian school girl Alicia Dale has claimed back-to-back titles, winning the coveted Australia Cup for a second time. The Australia Cup is the Australian secondary school singles event played in conjunction with the Pizzey Cup. Dale defeated second seed Alice Stevens 6-2, 6-3, marking a dominant week for her, not losing a set on her path to victory.<\/p>\n<p>Dale made history in 2024, becoming the first Tasmanian girl to win the title in 44 years, in front of a home crowd. This year in Bendigo, she became just the third girl to win the prestigious title twice in its 47 year history.<\/p>\n<p>The victory adds to a very successful 12 months for Dale, having also won two junior ITF singles titles and a junior ITF doubles title.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tasmania\u2019s Australia Cup History<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Previous Tasmanian Winners:<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Girls:<\/strong><br \/>\n1980 Maree Booth TAS<\/p>\n<p>2024 Alicia Dale 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<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>Tasmanian school girl Alicia Dale has claimed back-to-back titles, winning the coveted Australia Cup for a second time. The Australia Cup is the Australian secondary school singles event played in conjunction with the Pizzey Cup. Dale defeated second seed Alice Stevens 6-2, 6-3, marking a dominant week for her, not losing a set on her [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6412,"featured_media":12359,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/tas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12358","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\/6412"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/tas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/tas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12358\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/tas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/tas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/tas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/tas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}