{"id":8467,"date":"2018-10-19T10:03:16","date_gmt":"2018-10-18T23:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/tas\/?p=8467"},"modified":"2018-10-22T10:57:22","modified_gmt":"2018-10-21T23:57:22","slug":"tasmanian-team-ready-for-bruce-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/tas\/news\/2018\/10\/19\/tasmanian-team-ready-for-bruce-cup","title":{"rendered":"Tasmanian team ready for Bruce Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tasmania&#8217;s best 12 and under players are set to compete in the Bruce Cup in Adelaide.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0Bruce Cup\u00a0is a prestigious annual national primary school teams event, pitting state against state in a round-robin competition. It runs from October 20 to 27.<\/p>\n<p>The 14-member Tasmanian team prepared for the event with a training camp in Burnie last month, where they spent time hitting and learning with former world No.3 doubles star Casey Dellacqua.<\/p>\n<p>The recently-retired Dellacqua spoke to the group, sharing stories from her junior days representing Western Australia. She emphasised the importance of teamwork, being proud to represent their state and enjoying the opportunity.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Bruce Cup 2018 | Tennis Australia\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ASnkzKN8sX0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Coach Trent Constance, who along with Alyssa Hibberd will lead the team in Adelaide, is confident they will represent the state well.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is a great chance for these promising young players to test themselves against the best players in their age group across the country,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cExcitement is high and team spirit is strong, even before they step on the court I\u2019m proud of the team we have representing our state.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tasmanian Bruce Cup 2018 team<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Team:<\/em> Jack Akl, George Anderson, Lachlan Browne, Ava Curtis, Alicia Dale, Mia Healy, Edison Lee, Alex Martin, Brooke Miller, Annabelle Radcliff, Callum Wherrett, Olivia Wilkinson, Summer Wilkinson, Campbell Young<br \/>\n<em>Coaches:<\/em> Alyssa Hibberd, Trent Constance<br \/>\n<em>Team manager:<\/em> Caroline Wegner<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasmania&#8217;s best 12 and under players are set to compete in the Bruce Cup in Adelaide. It is a prestigious annual national primary school teams event, pitting state against state in a round-robin competition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6028,"featured_media":8490,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[97,36,105,6,141],"class_list":["post-8467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-alyssa-hibberd","tag-bruce-cup","tag-casey-dellacqua","tag-juniors","tag-trent-constance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/tas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8467","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\/6028"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/tas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/tas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8467\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/tas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/tas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/tas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/tas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}