{"id":25906,"date":"2021-06-24T14:40:17","date_gmt":"2021-06-24T04:40:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/?p=25906"},"modified":"2021-06-24T14:40:43","modified_gmt":"2021-06-24T04:40:43","slug":"tennis-victoria-announces-state-teams-for-upcoming-national-junior-championships-on-the-gold-coast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/news\/2021\/06\/24\/tennis-victoria-announces-state-teams-for-upcoming-national-junior-championships-on-the-gold-coast","title":{"rendered":"Tennis Victoria announces state teams for upcoming National Junior Championships on the Gold Coast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Tennis Victoria<\/strong> are delighted to announce the state teams representing <strong>Victoria<\/strong> at the <strong>2021 Australian Teams Championships<\/strong> starting on Friday in <strong>Carrara, Queensland.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Representative teams from all Australian States and Territories and New Zealand <\/strong>will descend on the Gold Coast for the <strong>highest representative event for Victorian junior tennis players in the 11\/u, 13\/u and 15\/u age groups<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>11\/u and 13\/u championships<\/strong> commence on <strong>Friday<\/strong>, followed by the 15\/u championships beginning next <strong>Thursday July 1<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Players have been selected based on results from a combination of both their Australian Ranking (AR) and their Universal Tennis Rating (UTR).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tennis Victoria\u2019s Player Pathways Lead, Andrew Reynolds<\/strong>, was thrilled to announce the Victorian teams and rewarding players for their impressive performances to date.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll players representing Victoria in the Australian Teams Championships should \u00a0be extremely proud,\u201d Reynolds said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese players are not only selected on their results, but also on their commitment to the sport across 12 months of the year. It will be a wonderful team experience and we wish everyone a successful trip to Queensland and a great event.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tennis Australia\u2019s National Development Squad Coach, Performance &#8211; Victoria, Simon Rea<\/strong>, is looking forward to the championships in Queensland and high level competition for the Victorian juniors.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are looking forward to an opportunity for competitive play at the highest level for our Victorian teams\u201d Rea explained.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis group of players have overcome adversity in recent weeks with on-court restrictions in Victoria, and we are very excited for an opportunity to go to Queensland and play against the best juniors across Australia and New Zealand.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Selected Victorian Teams<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>11\/u Team<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Girls<\/strong>\u00a0 Yuvika Gorshi, Lola Grigor, Coco Philp<\/p>\n<p><strong>Boys<\/strong>\u00a0 Nikolas Baker, Lachlan King, Liam Polizzi, Joel Roney<\/p>\n<p><strong>13\/u Team<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Girls<\/strong>\u00a0 Koharu Nishikawa, Charlotte Vanstone McGrath, Ruby Ward, Ava Beck<\/p>\n<p><strong>Boys<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0 Daniel Jovanovski, Dmitri Bagaric, Ymerali Ibriami<\/p>\n<p><strong>15\/u Team<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Girls<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0 Bridget Mihulka, Gabrielle Villegas, Isabella Crossman, Jelena Cvijanovic<\/p>\n<p><strong>Boys<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0 Hanival Kahsay, Nicholas Jovanovski, Michael Korobitsin<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Coaching staff:<\/strong> Genevieve Lorbergs, Simon Rea, Pavlina Ticha and Michael Logarzo.<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Event information \u2013 2021 Australian Teams Championships<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"148\"><strong>Date<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"399\">11\/u and 13\/u Teams Championship &#8211; 25 June &#8211; 29 June<\/p>\n<p>15\/u Teams Championships -1 July \u2013 4 July<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"148\"><strong>Time<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"399\">Matches begin at 9.00am<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"148\"><strong>Location<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"399\">KDV Sports<\/p>\n<p>221 Nerang Broadbeach Road<\/p>\n<p>Carrara QLD 4211<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Draws and Results<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ta.tournamentsoftware.com\/sport\/tournament.aspx?id=087A9F35-98F7-482B-8532-63614761ABCD\">11\/u &amp; 13\/u Championships<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ta.tournamentsoftware.com\/sport\/tournament.aspx?id=347469DD-CFF3-45BE-B4A9-4842A1E1D15A\">15u Championships<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tennis Victoria are delighted to announce the state teams representing Victoria at the 2021 Australian Teams Championships starting on Friday in Carrara, Queensland. Representative teams from all Australian States and Territories and New Zealand will descend on the Gold Coast for the highest representative event for Victorian junior tennis players in the 11\/u, 13\/u and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6293,"featured_media":25907,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25906","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\/25906","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\/6293"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25906\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}