{"id":14803,"date":"2019-11-19T10:42:18","date_gmt":"2019-11-19T02:42:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/?p=14803"},"modified":"2019-11-27T11:55:09","modified_gmt":"2019-11-27T03:55:09","slug":"rafa-nadal-tour-completes-perth-stop-ahead-of-melbourne-masters-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/news\/2019\/11\/19\/rafa-nadal-tour-completes-perth-stop-ahead-of-melbourne-masters-event","title":{"rendered":"Rafa Nadal Tour completes Perth stop ahead of Melbourne Masters Event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The globally renowned <strong>Rafa Nadal Tour<\/strong> has completed its final Australian stop at the Perth Bronze Junior Tennis Event at the State Tennis Centre, with winners set to head to Melbourne in January 2020.<\/p>\n<p>The tour, which held stages throughout the year in Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria and WA, will conclude with the <strong>Rafa Nadal Masters Event<\/strong> in Melbourne in January. Each stop was aimed at showcasing a competitive and educational program while fostering the tour values of sportsmanship, commitment, fellowship and effort.<\/p>\n<p>Local Perth junior players <strong>Jake Dembo<\/strong> and <strong>Alice Stevens<\/strong> won the 12\/u titles while <strong>James Newton<\/strong> and <strong>Saanvi Tak<\/strong> won the 14\/u titles at the tournament which concluded yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>Fellow West Australian <strong>Rhea Makesar<\/strong> will also contest the Masters Event in Melbourne having won the girls 14\/u Victorian Junior Gold tournament earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Carlos Cuadrado<\/strong> from the Rafa Nadal Tour also revealed the Trophy of Values recipients, with <strong>Gerard Hadianto<\/strong> and <strong>Elena Manoj\u00a0<\/strong>in the 12\/u age group and <strong>Marko Mrdak<\/strong> and<strong> Peyton Duckett<\/strong> in the 14\/u age group awarded for their outstanding on and off court behaviour.<\/p>\n<p>Rafa Nadal Tour Values Coach Carlos Cuadrado was delighted with the quality of the tennis and the off-court values displayed by the West Australian juniors.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was a pleasure to be in Perth on behalf of the Rafa Nadal Tour to help share Rafa\u2019s message.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe want to continue to work with Australian juniors to share and educate players on the importance of the values of sportsmanship, effort, fellowship and commitment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThank you to everyone who was involved in the Perth event, the quality of tennis was great throughout the whole tournament. We saw this particularly on finals day when some very strong matches were played,\u201d Cuadrado said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rafa Nadal Tour Perth Bronze JT results:<\/strong><br \/>\n12\/u boys\u2019 final: [1] Jake Dembo def. [2] Nemanja Savic 4-2 4-1<br \/>\n12\/u girls\u2019 final: [3] Alice Stevens (Vic) def. [4] Amy Findlay 4-0 4-0<br \/>\n14\/u girls\u2019 final: [2] Saanvi Tak def. [7] Gayle Leong 4-1 4-1<br \/>\n14\/u boys\u2019 final: [1] James Newton def. Kevin Herbert 4-3 (2) 4-0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rafa Nadal Tour Values Trophy recipients:<\/strong><br \/>\n12\/u girls\u2019: Elena Manoj<br \/>\n12\/u boys\u2019: Gerard Hadianto<br \/>\n14\/u girls\u2019: Peyton Duckett<br \/>\n14\/u boys\u2019: Marko Mrdak<\/p>\n<p>Winners of the WA stage of the Rafa Nadal Tour, in addition to the four Values Trophy recipients, will head to Melbourne in January to compete against winners from QLD, NSW and VIC for a once-in-a-lifetime trip to Mallorca in Spain for a two-week training program at the renowned <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rafanadalacademy.com\/en\">Rafa Nadal Academy by Movistar.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The globally renowned Rafa Nadal Tour has completed its final Australian stop at the Perth Bronze Junior Tennis Event at the State Tennis Centre, with winners set to head to Melbourne in January 2020. The tour, which held stages throughout the year in Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria and WA, will conclude with the Rafa [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6203,"featured_media":14805,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14803","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\/14803","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\/6203"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14803\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}