{"id":21038,"date":"2019-09-06T14:50:39","date_gmt":"2019-09-06T04:50:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/?p=21038"},"modified":"2019-09-09T08:56:31","modified_gmt":"2019-09-08T22:56:31","slug":"vic-tory-at-national-indigenous-tennis-carnival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/news\/2019\/09\/06\/vic-tory-at-national-indigenous-tennis-carnival","title":{"rendered":"VIC-tory at National Indigenous Tennis Carnival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tennis Victoria was thrilled to see the state\u2019s team venture to sunny Darwin for the second-ever National Indigenous Tennis Carnival.<\/p>\n<p>Team Victoria (Alexis Pagett, Brodie Murray,\u00a0Camellia Clarke, Jaika Thompson, Lewis Murray, Liam Williams, Nola Willshire, Rhys Bergman, Sunil Handy and Toby Radford) had a successful campaign, culminating in the squad being awarded the Ash Barty Cup (participation and effort award).<\/p>\n<p>After finishing as the runner up in 2018, Victoria\u2019s Toby Radford, was thrilled to salute with a victory.The championship final for 18\/u boys\u2019 saw Toby Radford (VIC) def Charlie Pade (NSW) 6-2 6-1, while the 14\/u boys\u2019 final had Liam Williams (VIC) def Jayden Kemp (SA) 6-4 6-4.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI feel honoured. This is my second year back, last year I was the runner up and pretty disappointed. I wanted to come back firing this year and get the job done, so I am pretty happy with this result,\u201d Radford said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur team wasn\u2019t expecting to win the Ash Barty Cup. It wasn\u2019t a very big team, but obviously we tried hard every match and got our results, which helped us to claim the cup.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt has been good to catch up with everyone. Just getting to know everyone and learn more about the culture here, it\u2019s been really good.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Victorian team did an outstanding job and everyone involved should be proud of their efforts.<\/p>\n<p>For more on the NITC, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/news\/2019\/09\/01\/evonne-goolagong-cawley-crowns-2019-national-indigenous-tennis-carnival-champions\">click here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Additional information on the 2019 NITC:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>More than 180 participants travelled to Darwin for the 2019 National Indigenous Tennis Carnival including 84 from NT, 42 from Queensland, 20 from NSW, 10 from WA, 10 from Victoria, 9 from ACT, 6 from Tasmania, and 3 from SA<\/li>\n<li>NT participants came from 6 communities including the Clontarf Boys Program from Nightcliff Middle School and as far as Numbulwar which is an 11-hour drive<\/li>\n<li>The event was not only focused on tennis, but provided a culturally immersive experience which saw participants getting the opportunity to take part in the Djuki Mala workshop and concert, learn basket weaving, jewellery making, painting, sculpting and didgeridoo making<\/li>\n<li>The event is a pivotal part of the Indigenous tennis pathway and provides an opportunity for not only elite Indigenous tennis players but those trying the sport for the first time<\/li>\n<li>A mural was also created at the event to recognise and celebrate the achievements of Indigenous tennis players Evonne Goolagong Cawley and Ash Barty and inspire participants attending the Darwin event<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tennis Victoria was thrilled to see the state\u2019s team venture to sunny Darwin for the second-ever National Indigenous Tennis Carnival<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6038,"featured_media":21040,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21038","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\/21038","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\/6038"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21038\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}