{"id":16506,"date":"2016-12-19T11:25:51","date_gmt":"2016-12-19T00:25:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/?p=16506"},"modified":"2016-12-19T11:31:46","modified_gmt":"2016-12-19T00:31:46","slug":"victorians-shine-at-december-showdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/news\/2016\/12\/19\/victorians-shine-at-december-showdown","title":{"rendered":"Victorians shine at December Showdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Victorians have had their most successful <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/news-and-events\/pro-tournaments\/december-showdown\">December Showdown<\/a>\u00a0in recent years, with three young-guns securing Australian Open 2017 Wildcards and six juniors earning Australian Championship titles.<\/p>\n<p>Nineteen-year-old Omar Jasika\u00a0(Vic) was awarded a wildcard into the men\u2019s singles main draw of Australian Open 2017 today following his win over John-Patrick Smith\u00a0in the Australian Open Playoff final.<\/p>\n<p>Seventeen-year-old Jaimee Fourlis (Vic) defeated Abbie Myers (NSW) 7-6(6) 7-5, to win her spot in the women\u2019s singles main draw in January.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, Destanee Aiava (Vic) and Alicia Smith (Qld) earned a doubles wildcard for Australian Open 2017. Aiava also secured a main draw singles wildcard with victory over Fourlis in the 18\/u girls\u2019 Australian Championships the week prior.<\/p>\n<p>Sixteen-year-old Aiava is set to become the first player born this century to play at a Grand Slam when she returns to Melbourne Park in January.<\/p>\n<p>Other\u00a0Australian Championship title winners over the December Showdown included Omar Jasika&#8217;s younger brother\u00a0Amor Jasika. Amor defeated Lennon Jones (JPN) 4-6 6-3 7-5 in the boys 12\/u singles championships.<\/p>\n<p>In the boys 16\/u singles, Matthew Dellavedova claimed the Australian title defeating Alexander Crnokrak (QLD) 6-3 7-6 (4).<\/p>\n<p>Joshua Charlton and Jeremy Taylor took out the Boys 18\/u Doubles while\u00a0Jaimee Fourlis and Jeanette Lin \u2013secured the Girls 18\/u Doubles title.<\/p>\n<p>In the 16\/u boys doubles final, Victorian Ken Cavrak and South Australian Sean Van Rensburg were defeated by Alexander Crnokrak (QLD) \/ Anthony Popyrin (NSW) 7-6 (2) 6-4.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victorians have had their most successful December Showdown\u00a0in recent years, with three young-guns securing Australian Open 2017 Wildcards and six juniors earning Australian Championship titles. Nineteen-year-old Omar Jasika\u00a0(Vic) was awarded a wildcard into the men\u2019s singles main draw of Australian Open 2017 today following his win over John-Patrick Smith\u00a0in the Australian Open Playoff final. Seventeen-year-old [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5914,"featured_media":16510,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16506","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\/16506","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=16506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16506\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}