{"id":3194,"date":"2011-03-09T16:14:51","date_gmt":"2011-03-09T06:14:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/?p=3194"},"modified":"2011-03-09T16:14:51","modified_gmt":"2011-03-09T06:14:51","slug":"a-rapid-rise-up-the-rankings-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/news\/2011\/03\/09\/a-rapid-rise-up-the-rankings-2","title":{"rendered":"A rapid rise up the rankings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Richard Yang\u2019s tennis prowess is coming to the fore, having climbed over 1500 places in the past 12 months on the Australian Rankings to a career high of 722, and No.2 in Victoria for his birth year.<strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In the last three months, Richard has won three tournaments and, in only his second nationals event in Mildura recently, he made the final in the 12\/u event before going down in a very closely fought match to the No.8 seed, Alexei Popyrin from New South Wales, 7-5 7-6(4).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI played well the whole tournament and was really aggressive,\u201d said Richard.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI kept trying and never gave up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Having only started playing tennis three years ago, Richard hopes to join the professional tour and make the world\u2019s top 100.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe loves sport. He wants to play tennis and I think it\u2019s a good sport,\u201d said Michelle Yang, Richard\u2019s mother.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe loves tennis, he wants to become a professional and he enjoys the challenge. It\u2019s not easy, but it\u2019s a dream he wants to work to.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Richard trains five days a week, has recently joined Tennis Victoria\u2019s State Academy and has received a scholarship to Kooyong Lawn Tennis Club where he will be playing Pennant this coming season.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in the year, Richard won the boys\u2019 12\/u 2011 Glen Iris Junior Championships and the boys\u2019 12\/u 2011 CORE Frankston Summer Classic. In December, he also won the boys\u2019 12\/u 2010 Victorian Junior Hardcourt Championships.<\/p>\n<p>Ashley Naumann, Tennis Victoria\u2019s Player Development Manager is impressed with Richard\u2019s recent improvements.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRichard has made considerable progress with his development over the last six months and to make a final of only his second 12\/u national event is a great achievement.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Richard Yang\u2019s tennis prowess is coming to the fore, having climbed over 1500 places in the past 12 months on the Australian Rankings to a career high of 722, and No.2 in Victoria for his birth year. In the last three months, Richard has won three tournaments and, in only his second nationals event in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5907,"featured_media":3500,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3194","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\/3194","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\/5907"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3194\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}