{"id":31033,"date":"2023-05-25T03:56:56","date_gmt":"2023-05-24T17:56:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/?p=31033"},"modified":"2023-05-25T03:56:56","modified_gmt":"2023-05-24T17:56:56","slug":"carla-lenarduzzi-announced-for-2023-virtus-global-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/news\/2023\/05\/25\/carla-lenarduzzi-announced-for-2023-virtus-global-games","title":{"rendered":"Carla Lenarduzzi announced for 2023 Virtus Global Games"},"content":{"rendered":"

Australia\u2019s top players with an intellectual impairment (PWII) will compete at the Virtus Global Games in France next month. <\/strong>Victoria’s own Carla Lenarduzzi features in the nation\u2019s 11 player squad.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Virtus Global Games are the world\u2019s largest elite sports event for athletes with an intellectual impairment and take place every four years. Australia won the last tournament when it was held in Brisbane in 2019.<\/p>\n

Teams from more than 50 countries will compete in the 2023 Virtus Global Games<\/a>. across sports such as tennis, athletics, basketball, cycling, equestrian, futsal, handball, judo, karate, rowing, swimming, table tennis and taekwondo.<\/p>\n

The French city of Vichy hosts the 2023 event from 4-10 June.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u201cThis year\u2019s team is a big team, and we are really proud of that,\u201d said Head Coach Alison Scott.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have been world champions since 2015, so we are very confident going overseas. The team is very well prepared and well trained, which is brilliant.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is the first year players in the II-3 category, which is players on the autism spectrum, have been able to compete in the games, and we are excited to take two players from this category overseas to compete.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have been really looking forward to this moment, because we feel Australia is ahead of the game in the II-3 category. We have been really supporting players on the autism spectrum in Australia, so we are so excited to have this opportunity, and hopefully we can build on this and grow more competition from here.\u201d<\/p>\n

Good luck to Carla and team Australia as they aim for another Virtus Global Games victory!<\/em><\/p>\n

Australian team:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Women<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Name<\/strong><\/td>\nSuburb<\/strong><\/td>\nAustralian Ranking<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Kelly Wren<\/td>\nEngadine, NSW<\/td>\nII-1 Singles – #1<\/p>\n

II-1 Doubles – #2<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

Carla Lenarduzzi<\/strong><\/td>\nCamberwell, Vic<\/strong><\/td>\nII-1 Singles – #4<\/strong><\/p>\n

II-1 Doubles – #1<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

Breanna Tunny<\/td>\nAlexandra Hills, Qld<\/td>\nII-1 Singles – #3<\/p>\n

II-1 Doubles – #8<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

Andriana Petrakis<\/td>\nAllenby Gardens, SA<\/td>\nII-1 Singles – #2<\/p>\n

II-1 Double – #3<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Men<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Name<\/strong><\/td>\nSuburb<\/strong><\/td>\nAustralian Ranking<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Archie Graham<\/td>\nNewton, Qld<\/td>\nII-1 Singles – #1<\/p>\n

II-1 Doubles – #2<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

Mitchell James<\/td>\nBurpengary East, Qld<\/td>\nII-1 Singles – #1<\/p>\n

II-1 Doubles – #1<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

Luke Barker<\/td>\nKedron, Qld<\/td>\nII-1 Singles – #5<\/p>\n

II-1 Doubles – #4<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

Damian Phillips<\/td>\nCoffs Harbour, NSW<\/td>\nII-1 Singles – #6<\/p>\n

II-1 Doubles – #7<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

Timothy Gould<\/td>\nNorth Lakes, Qld<\/td>\nII-2 Singles – #1<\/p>\n

II-2 Doubles – #1<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

Hunter Thompson<\/td>\nBahrs Scrub, Qld<\/td>\nII-3 Singles – #1<\/p>\n

II-3 Doubles – #2<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

Simon Ma<\/td>\nBella Vista, NSW<\/td>\nII-3 Singles – #2<\/p>\n

II-3 Doubles – #2<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Classifications in the PWII pathway: II-1 (Intellectual Disability), II-2 (Down syndrome), II-3 (Autism).<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Australia\u2019s top players with an intellectual impairment (PWII) will compete at the Virtus Global Games in France next month. Victoria’s own Carla Lenarduzzi features in the nation\u2019s 11 player squad. The Virtus Global Games are the world\u2019s largest elite sports event for athletes with an intellectual impairment and take place every four years. Australia won […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6373,"featured_media":31037,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31033","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\/31033","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\/6373"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31033\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}