{"id":29198,"date":"2022-12-12T15:52:40","date_gmt":"2022-12-12T04:52:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/?p=29198"},"modified":"2022-12-12T15:52:40","modified_gmt":"2022-12-12T04:52:40","slug":"victorians-claim-titles-at-december-showdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/news\/2022\/12\/12\/victorians-claim-titles-at-december-showdown","title":{"rendered":"Victorians claim titles at December Showdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Australian\u2019s most prestigious junior event, the <strong>December Showdown<\/strong> is underway at Melbourne Park with more than 180 juniors competing for national titles in the 12\/u, 14\/u, 16\/u and 18\/u Australian Championships which runs until Saturday 17 December. Victorian&#8217;s have been on court all week challenging for titles with great success over the courts.<\/p>\n<p>The 14\/u and 18\/u champions were crowned over the weekend, with Victorian&#8217;s 17-year-old <strong>Stefani Webb<\/strong> winning the 18\/u Girls&#8217; Singles Australian Championship and\u00a014-year-old <strong>Daniel Jovanovski<\/strong> \u00a0winning the 14\/u Boys&#8217; Singles Championship.<\/p>\n<p>Both Stefani and Daniel features in the Doubles in their age group finals where they were also crowned Champions with their team mates Anja Nayar and Cameron Burton respectively.<\/p>\n<p>In other finals, Victoria&#8217;s Ava Beck was Runner Up in the 14\/u Girls Singles final and Scarlett Dattoli combined with Gina Cha (Qld) to take the Girls&#8217; 14\/u Doubles title. Cooper Errey teamed up with Queenslands Marcus Schoeman to win the Boys&#8217; Doubles 18\/u title.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>December Showdown 2022 \u2013 Week one finals results<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>14\/u Australian Championships results \u2013Melbourne Park<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Boys\u2019 Final:<\/em> <strong>[3] Daniel Jovanovski (Vic)<\/strong> d [5] Nemanja Savic (WA) 6-1 6-1<\/li>\n<li><em>Girls\u2019 Final: <\/em>[2] Sara Nikolic (WA) d [5] <strong>Ava Beck (Vic) 6-3 3-6 6-1<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><em>Boys\u2019 doubles: <\/em>[1] Cameron Burton (WA)\/<strong>Daniel Jovanovski (Vic)<\/strong> d Ari Lewis-Kelly (SA)\/Jeffrey Strydom (SA) walkover<\/li>\n<li><em>Girls\u2019 doubles: <\/em>Gina Cha (Qld)\/<strong>Scarlett Dattoli (Vic)<\/strong> d Sarah Mildren (SA)\/Kalina Stefanov (SA) 6-4 4-6 [10-5]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>18\/<em>u Australian Championships results &#8211; Melbourne Park<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Boys\u2019 Final: [2] Pavle Marinkov (NSW) d [6] Lachlan Vickery (Qld) 6-1 6-1<\/li>\n<li>Girls\u2019 Final: <strong>[3] Stefani Webb (Vic)<\/strong> d [5] Elim Yan (SA) 6-3 6-1<\/li>\n<li>Boys\u2019 doubles:<strong> [4] Cooper Errey (Vic)<\/strong>\/Marcus Schoeman (Qld) d Jiayang Dong (NSW)\/Taj Hibbert (NSW) 6-2 6-2<\/li>\n<li>Girls\u2019 doubles: [1] Anja Nayar (Qld)\/<strong>Stefani Webb (Vic)<\/strong> d [3] Cassidy Mataia (Qld)\/Elim Yan (SA) 3-6 6-1 [10-5]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Play for the 16\/u and 12\/u events has started with the best players from around the country competing for national titles. The finals for both age groups will take place this Saturday 17 December.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australian\u2019s most prestigious junior event, the December Showdown is underway at Melbourne Park with more than 180 juniors competing for national titles in the 12\/u, 14\/u, 16\/u and 18\/u Australian Championships which runs until Saturday 17 December. Victorian&#8217;s have been on court all week challenging for titles with great success over the courts. 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