{"id":15440,"date":"2016-04-15T13:44:18","date_gmt":"2016-04-15T03:44:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/?p=15440"},"modified":"2016-04-15T15:15:26","modified_gmt":"2016-04-15T05:15:26","slug":"victoria-fly-high-at-junior-australian-grasscourt-championships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/news\/2016\/04\/15\/victoria-fly-high-at-junior-australian-grasscourt-championships","title":{"rendered":"Victoria fly high at junior Australian Grasscourt Championships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Victoria has shone at the\u00a0<strong>2016 12\/u and 14\/u\u00a0Australian Grasscourt Championships\u00a0<\/strong>in Adelaide this week, winning an outstanding four from eight national titles on offer.<\/p>\n<p>Played at Memorial Drive Park in Adelaide, Kooyong\u2019s unseeded\u00a0<strong>Stefan Storch\u00a0<\/strong>was\u00a0crowned\u00a014\/u Boys Singles Champion, defeating Western Australia\u2019s second seed William Hann 6-4 6-4.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt feels really good [to be champion], I love playing on grass and it feels really good to be out here in front of my friends who I traveled with from Melbourne.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was a bit nervous at the start, and with [William] being a left hander it was pretty hard to make some returns on the grass, but in the first set I got that crucial break at 4-4 and I served out the set.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the second set I was down 3-0 but I fought it back to 5-3 up and I just kept holding my serve. It was really tough today but I got through in the end,\u201d said a delighted Storch.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Interview with Stefan Storch - Thursday 14 April 2016\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OUCJo5GjX08?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>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The title was<strong>\u00a0Storch\u2019s\u00a0<\/strong>second for the tournament, having\u00a0paired with fellow Victorian\u00a0<strong>Stefan Milenkovic<\/strong>\u00a0to defeat Hann\/Nikita Volonski 6-3 3-6 10-7 in the\u00a014\/u boys doubles final on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>In the 12\/u boys doubles, Greenvale\u2019s\u00a0<strong>Rowan Mendis<\/strong>\u00a0added to his recent Clay Court State title, teaming with New South Wales\u2019<strong>\u00a0Taj Hibbert\u00a0<\/strong>to defeat\u00a0Thomas Hann\/Jed Plunkett-Smith\u00a06-2 6-4.<\/p>\n<p>In the girls events, Strathmore\u2019s\u00a0<strong>Emily Ioannou\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0Lara Walker (QLD) were crowned\u00a012\/u girls doubles champions, defeating\u00a0Catherine Aulia \/\u00a0Taylah Lawless 6-3 5-7 10-8.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tournaments.tennis.com.au\/sport\/winners.aspx?id=B3D2BA6F-25EC-438A-AAC8-B581FFC82E7F\">View results here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"no-resize alignnone wp-image-15450 size-standard-portrait-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/files\/2016\/04\/IMG_7538-230x360.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_7538\" width=\"230\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/files\/2016\/04\/IMG_7538-230x360.jpg 230w, https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/files\/2016\/04\/IMG_7538-128x200.jpg 128w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 230px) 100vw, 230px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"no-resize alignnone wp-image-15451 size-standard-landscape-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/files\/2016\/04\/IMG_7528-360x230.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_7528\" width=\"360\" height=\"230\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/files\/2016\/04\/IMG_7528-360x230.jpg 360w, https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/files\/2016\/04\/IMG_7528-700x450.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/files\/2016\/04\/IMG_7528-200x128.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"no-resize alignnone wp-image-15452 size-standard-landscape-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/files\/2016\/04\/IMG_7537-360x230.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_7537\" width=\"360\" height=\"230\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/files\/2016\/04\/IMG_7537-360x230.jpg 360w, https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/files\/2016\/04\/IMG_7537-700x450.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/files\/2016\/04\/IMG_7537-200x128.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victoria has shone at the\u00a02016 12\/u and 14\/u\u00a0Australian Grasscourt Championships\u00a0in Adelaide this week, winning an outstanding four from eight national titles on offer. Played at Memorial Drive Park in Adelaide, Kooyong\u2019s unseeded\u00a0Stefan Storch\u00a0was\u00a0crowned\u00a014\/u Boys Singles Champion, defeating Western Australia\u2019s second seed William Hann 6-4 6-4. \u201cIt feels really good [to be champion], I love playing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5914,"featured_media":15444,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5914"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15440\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}