{"id":13588,"date":"2018-12-05T14:26:09","date_gmt":"2018-12-05T06:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/?p=13588"},"modified":"2018-12-05T14:28:52","modified_gmt":"2018-12-05T06:28:52","slug":"wa-players-featured-in-all-4-finals-of-14-u-australian-championships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/news\/2018\/12\/05\/wa-players-featured-in-all-4-finals-of-14-u-australian-championships","title":{"rendered":"WA Players featured in all 4 Finals of 14\/U Australian Championships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The annual <strong>December Showdow<\/strong>n began earlier this week with more than 400 junior players aiming to secure national titles in the 12\/u, 14\/u, 16\/u and 18\/u age championships at Melbourne Park.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The 14-under finals will take place tomorrow from 9.00 am (AEST) on Court 7 at Melbourne Park, with WA players represented in all 4 Finals Events.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Top seed <strong>Charlotte Kempenaers-Pocz f<\/strong>rom Glengowrie, South Australia will play [3]\u00a0<strong> Talia Gibson<\/strong> from Alfred Cove, Western Australia in the girls\u2019 final.<\/p>\n<p>Seventh seed <strong>Derek Pham<\/strong> from Maida Vale, WA will take on Japanese junior [8] <strong>Shogo Sanada<\/strong> in the boys\u2019 final.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Order of Play \u2013 Thursday 6 December 2018 | 9.00 am<\/p>\n<h4>14\/u Girls\u2019 Final<\/h4>\n<p>[1] Charlotte Kempenaers-Pocz (SA) vs. [3] <strong>Talia Gibson<\/strong> (WA) \u2013 Court 7<\/p>\n<h4>14\/u Boys\u2019 Final<\/h4>\n<p>[7] <strong>Derek Pham (<\/strong>WA) vs. [8] Shogo Sanada (JPN) \u2013 Court 7<\/p>\n<h4>14\/U Boys Doubles Final<\/h4>\n<p><strong>Derek Pham<\/strong> [2]\u00a0 (WA) \/ Edward Winter\u00a0 vs\u00a0 Billy Bougoure \/ Kanika Jayathilake<\/p>\n<h4>14\/U Girls Doubles Final<\/h4>\n<p><span id=\"2002\" class=\"match\">Ayaka Koga [5] \/ Yukina Koga Vs<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><strong>Shanelle Iaconi<\/strong> (WA) \/ Cassidy Mataia vs<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h5>December Showdown 2018 fast facts<\/h5>\n<p>December Showdown is Australia\u2019s biggest junior tennis event series and runs from Saturday 1 to Sunday 16 December at the home of the Australian Open.<\/p>\n<p>The annual carnival features<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>More than 400 of Australia\u2019s top young athletes<\/li>\n<li>Players representing every Australian state and territory, as well as Asia-Pacific countries including China, Japan, New Zealand, Singapore, Pacific Oceania, India and Indonesia<\/li>\n<li>National titles in the 12\/u, 14\/u, 16\/u and 18\/u age championships<\/li>\n<li>Opportunities to earn a coveted wildcard into the Australian Open Junior Championships<\/li>\n<li>More than 1400 matches played in the first two weeks of December.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>December Showdown culminates with the Australian Open 2019 Play-off, with 16 Australian men and women competing to win a prized Australian Open main draw wildcard. The AO Play-off runs from Monday 10 to Sunday 16 December.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>December Showdown draws and acceptance lists:\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Australian Open 2019 Play-off\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 10 \u2013 16 December 2018<\/p>\n<p>18\/u Australian Championships &#8211; 01 \u2013 08 December 2018<\/p>\n<p>16\/u Australian Championships &#8211; 12 \u2013 16 December 2018<\/p>\n<p>14\/u Australian Championships &#8211; 01 \u2013 06 December 2018<\/p>\n<p>14\/u Australian Teams Championships\u00a0\u00a0 07 \u2013 10 December 2018<\/p>\n<p>12\/u Australian Championships &#8211; 11 \u2013 16 December 2018<\/p>\n<p>12\/u Australian Teams Championships\u00a0\u00a0 07 \u2013 10 December 2018<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>For all December Showdown news, draws and order of play please <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/news-and-events\/pro-tournaments\/december-showdown\">visit here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Live scores will be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tennisticker.de\/aus\/aus3406\/sb.html\">available here<\/a> or download the Tennis Ticker app.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Australian Open 2019 Play-off will be livestreamed via tennis.com.au from 10 to 16 December and Nine\u2019s 9Now will stream the semifinals and finals.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The annual December Showdown began earlier this week with more than 400 junior players aiming to secure national titles in the 12\/u, 14\/u, 16\/u and 18\/u age championships at Melbourne Park. &nbsp; The 14-under finals will take place tomorrow from 9.00 am (AEST) on Court 7 at Melbourne Park, with WA players represented in all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5812,"featured_media":13589,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13588","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\/13588","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=13588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13588\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}