{"id":13809,"date":"2019-02-07T15:16:01","date_gmt":"2019-02-07T07:16:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/?p=13809"},"modified":"2019-03-07T16:25:28","modified_gmt":"2019-03-07T08:25:28","slug":"introducing-acegirls-a-tennis-west-initiative-celebrating-west-australian-females-in-tennis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/news\/2019\/02\/07\/introducing-acegirls-a-tennis-west-initiative-celebrating-west-australian-females-in-tennis","title":{"rendered":"Introducing ACEgirls: A Tennis West Initiative Celebrating West Australian Females in Tennis"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tennis West is pleased to introduce ACEgirls<\/strong>, an initiative developed to celebrate West Australian Females in Tennis. Showcasing past and present champions, rising stars, tournament officials, coaches and club committee members, WA\u2019s caliber of ACEgirls<\/strong> is nothing short of world class.<\/p>\n

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Rolling out over the next 12 months, ACEgirls<\/strong> will celebrate West Australia\u2019s standout women with a monthly profile poster and fact sheet.\u00a0 Highlighting individual achievements, successes both on and off the court, alongside amazing feats of commitment and dedication, ACEgirls<\/strong> stands to deliver you the very best of WA\u2019s tennis legends.<\/p>\n

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As such, it gives Tennis West great pleasure in announcing Astra Sharma<\/a> as our inaugural ACEgirl<\/strong>. Coming off Astra\u2019s impressive Australian Open campaign where she sliced her WTA ranking from 230 to 160, the decision was simple.<\/p>\n

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Forging her way through qualifying<\/a> and into her debut Grand Slam<\/a>, Astra went on to beat fellow Aussie, Pricilla Hon, in the first round<\/a> match before bowing out to World number 41, Maria Sakkari (6-1, 6-4) in the second round.<\/a> Regardless, Astra\u2019s phenomenal AO ride, was only just beginning.<\/p>\n

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Partnering with QLD\u2019s John-Patrick Smith as Wildcard entrants in the AO Mixed Doubles event, the pair secured a place in the Final, beating Bethanie Mattek-Sands and Jamie Murray (6-4, 7-6)<\/a> in the quarters before stamping out the number two seeds, Nicole Melichar and Bruno Soares (6-4, 7-6)<\/a> in the Semifinal. A gracious Final\u2019s defeat to the number three seeds, Barbora Krejcikova and Rajeev Ram (7-6, 6-1), didn\u2019t go unnoticed, with Astra selected to make her debut Fed Cup appearance<\/a> alongside Ash Barty, Daria Gavrilova, Kim Birrell and Priscilla Hon in the five-strong team against the USA in North Carolina from 9-10 February.<\/p>\n

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From the young girl who always did more than the rest, who took a chance on a US College Scholarship and is now reaping the rewards of her dedication and commitment, we celebrate Astra Sharma<\/a> as January\u2019s ACEgirl.<\/p>\n

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To download this month\u2019s ACEgirl Fact Sheet about Astra Sharma, CLICK HERE<\/a><\/h5>\n

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To watch Astra\u2019s journey from US College to the AO Final, CLICK HERE<\/a><\/h5>\n

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Tennis West is pleased to introduce ACEgirls, an initiative developed to celebrate West Australian Females in Tennis. Showcasing past and present champions, rising stars, tournament officials, coaches and club committee members, WA\u2019s caliber of ACEgirls is nothing short of world class.   Rolling out over the next 12 months, ACEgirls will celebrate West Australia\u2019s standout […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5812,"featured_media":13817,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13809","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\/13809","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=13809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13809\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}