{"id":11958,"date":"2017-04-05T10:04:09","date_gmt":"2017-04-05T02:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/?p=11958"},"modified":"2017-04-05T12:23:23","modified_gmt":"2017-04-05T04:23:23","slug":"tennis-west-march-performance-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/news\/2017\/04\/05\/tennis-west-march-performance-update","title":{"rendered":"Tennis West March Performance Update"},"content":{"rendered":"

FED CUP SQUAD TRAINING CAMP<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Maddison Inglis<\/strong> has been invited to attend the Australian Fed Cup Squad Training Camp at the National Tennis Centre in Melbourne from April 10-13, 2017.\u00a0Athletes born between 1997 \u2013 1999 that are seen as potential future Fed Cup team members have been invited. A number of current players and past Fed Cup players will also\u00a0attend the camp. The camp will have intensive on court sessions,\u00a0physical\u00a0activities, team building events and a team dinner. Australia\u00a0have been drawn to play Serbia, in Serbia on Hardcourt the weekend of April 22\u00a0& 23, 2017.\u00a0National Academy Head Coach will be attending the Fed\u00a0Cup tie in Serbia. Good luck to the Aussies!<\/p>\n

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AUSTRALIAN GRASSCOURT CHAMPIONSHIPS 12\/U & 14\/U, BERRI, SOUTH AUSTRALIA\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\n

State Coach Len Cannell a<\/strong>nd Talent Development Manager Damien Ward<\/strong> will be providing coach support for the 14 WA athlete\u2019s taking part in the 12\/U & 14\/U Australian Grasscourt Championships from April 8-13 to be held in Berri, South Australia. The WA contingent has commenced training at\u00a0Cottesloe\u00a0Tennis Club and are learning Grasscourt tactics, on court specific movement patterns, matchplay analysis, doubles skills and working on their all court\u00a0grasscourt\u00a0game. National Academy Head Coach Andrew Roberts<\/strong> will be running the sessions with Len Cannell and Damien Ward.<\/p>\n

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PARENT INFORMATION SESSION<\/strong><\/h3>\n

On Friday 24\/3\/17 at the State Tennis Centre, Tennis Australia and National Academy Sports Psychologist Heather McGregor-Bayne<\/strong> presented on \u201c Supporting your child at Competitions\u201d. The presentation discussed parent-child relationships leading into tournaments, during tournaments and post match. The presentation addressed key topics of entitlement and building resilience. Key messages were presented on sports psychology and how to support your child with an emphasis on praising hard work and good values. Heather has vast experience in the industry, having worked at the Western Australian Institute of Sport for a number of years working through two Olympic cycles. Heather has also provided services to numerous individual and team Olympic medalists.<\/p>\n

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TENNIS WEST CAMP COURAGE<\/strong><\/h3>\n

State Coach Len Cannell<\/strong> was the camp leader for Camp Courage held at Margaret River tennis club. The boys camp was held from February 17-20 and the girls camp from February 24-27. The theme for both camps was \u2018Resilience\u2019 with on court tennis sessions, a duathlon (paddling and running), mountain biking in Boranup Forest, 18km cape to cape hike across beach terrain, team building activities, resilience themed movies, forest adventure zip lining and sand dune physical activities. (See picture above)<\/em><\/p>\n

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TENNIS RESULTS CAMBODIA ITF\u2019S<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Tennis Cambodia ITF Junior Grade 5 (1)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Tom Hann<\/strong> singles semi finalist\u00a0 and doubles quarter finalist<\/p>\n

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Tennis Cambodia ITF Junior Grade 5 (2)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Tom Hann<\/strong> singles quarter finalist and doubles finalist<\/p>\n

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AUSTRALIAN JUNIOR DAVIS CUP CAMP BRISBANE<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Tristan Schoolkate<\/strong> has been selected for the Junior Davis Cup Camp \u2013 Brisbane from April 3-9, 2017. The top 6 male players in Australia from the 2001 birth year were selected. The camp runs alongside the Davis Cup Tie vrs The United States. The junior players will attend the official Davis Cup dinner and draw ceremony. This is great experience for Tristan and reward for his hard work and recent great results at the New Zealand ITF\u2019s earlier in the year.<\/p>\n

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AMERICAN COLLEGE TENNIS\u00a0 RESULTS<\/strong><\/h3>\n

–Astra Sharma<\/strong> is currently WTA ranked\u00a0 837. Astra is a junior at Vanderbilt University in Tennessee, USA. Astra is ranked Number 2 individually in American College tennis.<\/p>\n

–Scott Jones<\/strong> (2016 Australian U\/18 National Champion) is No 3 on the team roster and having some solid wins in Conference play<\/p>\n

–Dominic Bechard, Scott Jones, Jake Faundez, Jack Lyttle, Louis Corker, Vuk Velickovic, Astra Sharma, Caitlin Cridland, Megan Kauffman<\/strong> and Sally Partington<\/strong> are WA players currently in the American College System playing great tennis and studying towards their respective university degrees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

FED CUP SQUAD TRAINING CAMP Maddison Inglis has been invited to attend the Australian Fed Cup Squad Training Camp at the National Tennis Centre in Melbourne from April 10-13, 2017.\u00a0Athletes born between 1997 \u2013 1999 that are seen as potential future Fed Cup team members have been invited. A number of current players and past […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5812,"featured_media":11965,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5812"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11958\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}