{"id":39022,"date":"2024-10-11T10:29:44","date_gmt":"2024-10-10T23:29:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/?p=39022"},"modified":"2024-10-11T10:29:44","modified_gmt":"2024-10-10T23:29:44","slug":"victorian-player-awards-2024-victorian-player-of-the-year-finalists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/news\/2024\/10\/11\/victorian-player-awards-2024-victorian-player-of-the-year-finalists","title":{"rendered":"Victorian Player Awards 2024: Victorian Player of the Year &#8211; Finalists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"TextRun SCXW7555769 BCX4\" lang=\"EN-AU\" xml:lang=\"EN-AU\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW7555769 BCX4\">The Victorian Player of the Year <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW7555769 BCX4\">is an award to recognise outstanding achievements by Victorian professional tennis players<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW7555769 BCX4\">.\u00a0<\/span> <span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW7555769 BCX4\">The player will have outstanding results on court, including ranking improvement <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW7555769 BCX4\">in both singles and\/or doubles. They will have displayed tennis\u2019 values of humility and excellence.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span class=\"EOP SCXW7555769 BCX4\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Meet the finalists:<\/p>\n<h3>Arina Rodionova<\/h3>\n<p>Arina extended her ITF success at the back end of 2023 with victories in Lousada Portugal, Edmonton Canada and Trnava Slovakia. She was selected to represent Australia at the Billie Jean Cup Qualifiers. She reached a career high WTA Singles Ranking of 97 in February 2024. Arina made second round Qualifying at Wimbledon and had first round Qualifying appearances at the Australian Open and French Open.<\/p>\n<h3>Daria Saville<\/h3>\n<p>Saville made a strong comeback after injury, returning to the Grand Slam stage at the Australian Open, French Open and Wimbledon (second round), and also represented Australia at the Billie Jean Cup Qualifiers and the Paris Olympics. Daria went through qualifying for the WTA 1000 in Madrid, making second round and the WTA 500 in Charleston, also with a second round appearance. Semi finals at the WTA 250 in Hobart and Quarter Finals at the WTA 500 in San Diego were among her best performances for the year.<\/p>\n<h3>John Peers<\/h3>\n<p>The highlight of John&#8217;s year has been his selection for the Paris Australian Olympic team and going on to win the Gold Medal in the Men&#8217;s Doubles with Matt Ebden. Peers\/Ebden also made the final of Eastbourne. He won the Nottingham 2 Challenger 125 with Brit Marcus Wills. John also had finals appearances at Asatan 250 and Houston 250 and he made second round at the Australian Open, French Open and Wimbledon all with various partners.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Previous winners:<\/p>\n<p>2022\/23 \u2013 Heath Davidson<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong>2021\/22 \u2013 John Peers<br \/>\n*<em>new in 2021\/22<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meet the finalists for this year&#8217;s Victorian Player of the Year Award, celebrating the exceptional achievements of Victoria&#8217;s top professional tennis players.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6423,"featured_media":39295,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[98,57,1],"tags":[82],"class_list":["post-39022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","category-competitive-play","category-news","tag-victorian-tennis-awards"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39022","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\/6423"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39022\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}