Australia\u2019s top ranked junior wheelchair tennis players have pulled off an historic 2-1 victory over Great Britain in Israel to win the junior BNP Paribas World Team Cup title.<\/p>\n
The title is the nation\u2019s best junior wheelchair tennis result and etches Australia on the trophy for the first time in the 19-year-long history of the junior World Team Cup event.<\/p>\n
Team Australia, including Australia’s first ever junior female competitor, 17-year-old Hayley Slocombe (Engadine, NSW), 17-year-old Finn Broadbent (Brighton, Vic) and 13-year-old Riley Dumsday (Mornington, Vic), pulled off the win in an exciting deciding doubles rubber, defeating Great Britain 6-4 2-6 14-12.<\/p>\n
Head coach Greg Crump who last year received the ITF\u2019s highest wheelchair honour, the Brad Park\u2019s award, admitted he was still in a bit of shock following the result.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat an amazing effort by all our team, I am so incredibly proud of what Hayley, Finn, Riley and the support crew have been able to achieve this week, and can\u2019t praise their on-and-off court attitude and tenacity enough,\u201d Crump said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is the best result we\u2019ve ever had in our junior wheelchair program, and it\u2019s a credit to our existing wheelchair tennis role models who have been a major influence for these players.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis result just proves we have one of the best wheelchair tennis programs in the world, and I can\u2019t say thank you enough to everyone back home at Tennis Australia for supporting these athletes on their journey.<\/p>\n
\u201cEvery year more-and-more juniors and young kids are picking up a racquet and starting to play wheelchair tennis and I can\u2019t wait to see how far this next generation can go.<\/p>\n
Australia, USA and the Netherlands are now the only countries to have won all events across men\u2019s, women\u2019s, quad, and juniors.<\/p>\n
BNP Paribas World Team Cup 2019 \u2013 Junior results<\/p>\n
Round robin<\/strong> Semifinal<\/strong> Final<\/strong> World Team Cup 2019 – Australian Junior Wheelchair Tennis team<\/p>\n World No.4 (Girls) Hayley Slocombe (Engadine, NSW) Victorians Finn Broadbent and Riley Dumsday share in success at junior BNP Paribas World Team Cup event. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5595,"featured_media":20447,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20446","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\/20446","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\/5595"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20446\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n\u2022 Great Britain def. Australia 2-1
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\n\u2022 Australia def. Argentina 2-1<\/p>\n
\n\u2022 Australia def. Turkey 3-0<\/p>\n
\nAustralia def. Great Britain 2-1
\n\u2022 Riley Dumsday (AUS) def. Ben Bartram (GBR) 6-3 7-6(2) 6-4
\n\u2022 Dahnon Ward (GBR) def. Finn Broadbent (AUS) 6-2 6-2
\n\u2022 Riley Dumsday \/ Finn Broadbent (AUS) def. Ben Bartram \/ Dahnon Ward (GBR) 6-4 2-6 14-12<\/p>\n
\nWorld No.9 (Boys) Riley Dumsday (Mornington, Vic)
\nWorld No.10 (Boys) Finn Broadbent (Brighton, Vic)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"