{"id":36482,"date":"2023-12-18T07:44:36","date_gmt":"2023-12-17T20:44:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/?p=36482"},"modified":"2023-12-18T07:44:36","modified_gmt":"2023-12-17T20:44:36","slug":"december-showdown-wrap-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/news\/2023\/12\/18\/december-showdown-wrap-up","title":{"rendered":"December Showdown Wrap up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the last few weeks, our Junior Victorian&#8217;s took part in the December Showdown &#8211; the Australian Junior Tour Masters.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background: white\">Daniel Jovanovski has repeated his December Showdown triumph of last year, when he swept the 14\/U national championships, as he claimed the 2023 16\/U Boys\u2019 Singles title.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background: white\">The Victorian defeated New South Wales\u2019 Chase Zhao in a tight 6-4 7-6(3) battle, to become back-to-back December Showdown champion in front of a vocal home crowd.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Musemma Cilek (Vic) with partner Hannah Park (SA) won the 12\/U Girls Doubles while Yile Li and Christopher Manton teamed up to win the 12\/U Boys Doubles.<\/p>\n<p>Musemma Cilek fell short to Hannah Park in the Girls Singles final to claim the Runners Up trophy.<\/p>\n<p>Lachlan King had a great month by finishing up as a finalist in both the 14\/U Boys Singles Final and the 14\/U Boys Doubles finals alongside fellow Victorian Nikolas Baker. Well done to you both!<\/p>\n<p>In the 16\/U Boys Doubles, Luca Connaughton and Sam Simmonds fell short in the final to claim the Runners Up title, while Bridget Milhulka also finished Runners Up in the 16\/U Girls Doubles final. In the 18\/U, Isabella Crossman paired with Kristina Tai finished up Runners Up in the Girls Doubles final.<\/p>\n<p>Well done on all players on a great tournament!<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;background: white;color: #000000\">Full results below:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;background: white;color: #000000\">12\/U AUSTRALIAN JUNIOR TOUR MASTERS<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic;background: white;color: #000000\">Girls\u2019 singles, final<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">[2] Hannah Park (SA) d\u00a0[4] <span style=\"font-weight: bold\">Musemma Cilek (Vic) <\/span>7-5 5-7 6-3<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic;background: white;color: #000000\">Girls\u2019 doubles, final<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">[1] <span style=\"font-weight: bold\">Musemma Cilek (Vic)\/<\/span>Hannah Park (SA) d\u00a0[2] Isabel Cairns (ACT)\/Eleni Makantasis (Vic) 6-1 6-4<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic;background: white;color: #000000\">Boys\u2019 doubles, final<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">Yile Li (Vic)\/Christopher Manton (Vic)<\/span> d\u00a0Jobe Dikkenberg (ACT)\/Christian Joseph (Qld) 7-5 6-3<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;text-decoration: underline;background: white;color: #000000\">14\/U AUSTRALIAN JUNIOR TOUR MASTERS<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;background: white;color: #000000\">TODAY\u2019S RESULTS<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;font-family: inherit;background: white\">Boys\u2019 singles, final<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-family: lato;background: white\">[4] Connor McEvoy (Qld) d\u00a0[2]<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: bold;font-family: lato;background: white\"> Lachlan King (Vic<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: bold;font-family: lato;background: white\">)<\/span><span style=\"font-family: lato;background: white\"> 7-6(8) 6-1<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic;background: white;color: #000000\">Boys\u2019 doubles, final<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">[2] George Diable (WA)\/Connor McEvoy (Qld) d\u00a0[1]<span style=\"font-weight: bold\"> Nikolas Baker (Vic)\/Lachlan King (Vic)<\/span> 6-7(6) 6-4 [10-5]<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;background: white;color: #000000\">16\/U AUSTRALIAN JUNIOR TOUR MASTERS<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic;background: white;color: #000000\">Boys\u2019 doubles Finalists<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><span style=\"background: white\">[2] Lachlan McFadzean (NSW)\/Ashton McLeod (NSW) v<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: bold;background: white\">\u00a0Luca Connaughton (Vic)\/Sam Simmonds (Vic) 2-6 6-4 [10-3]<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic;background: white;color: #000000\">Girls\u2019 doubles, final<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">Rianna Alame (NSW)\/Alicia Dale (Tas) d\u00a0[4] <span style=\"font-weight: bold\">Bridget Mihulka (Vic)\/<\/span>Ava-Monet Sycamore (NSW) 5-7 6-1 [10-5]<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;background: white;color: #000000\">18\/U AUSTRALIAN CHAMPIONSHIPS<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic;background: white;color: #000000\">Girls\u2019 doubles, final<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">Elizabeth Ivanov (NSW)\/Sarah Mildren (SA) d<span style=\"font-weight: bold\">\u00a0Isabella Crossman (Vic<\/span>)\/Kristina Tai (SA) 6-2 6-2<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the last few weeks, our Junior Victorian&#8217;s took part in the December Showdown &#8211; the Australian Junior Tour Masters. Daniel Jovanovski has repeated his December Showdown triumph of last year, when he swept the 14\/U national championships, as he claimed the 2023 16\/U Boys\u2019 Singles title. The Victorian defeated New South Wales\u2019 Chase Zhao [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6366,"featured_media":36483,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36482","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\/36482","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\/6366"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36482\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}