{"id":18486,"date":"2023-05-04T10:23:30","date_gmt":"2023-05-04T02:23:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/?p=18486"},"modified":"2023-05-04T10:25:41","modified_gmt":"2023-05-04T02:25:41","slug":"jake-dembo-to-represent-australia-in-the-junior-davis-cup-qualifying-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/news\/2023\/05\/04\/jake-dembo-to-represent-australia-in-the-junior-davis-cup-qualifying-event","title":{"rendered":"Jake Dembo to represent Australia in the Junior Davis Cup Qualifying Event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Young West Australian Jake Dembo will represent Australia at the prestigious Junior Davis Cup qualifiers at the Asia\/Oceania qualifying events in Shymkent, Kazakhstan from May 8.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Jake Dembo will be joined by Lachlan McFadzean (Qld) and Jonas Hahn (SA) as well as fellow West Australian High Performance Coach Mitchell Pleydell who will captain the team.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Sixteen countries will compete in regional qualifying, with the top four boy\u2019s teams earning direct entry into the Finals to be held later in the year.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Junior Davis Cup captain and WA\u2019s Talent Operations Manager <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Mitchell Pleydell was privileged to be given the honour of representing Australia as a captain.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u201cI\u2019m looking forward to sitting courtside, observing and guiding our players against the world\u2019s best, but also looking forward to seeing how the boy\u2019s conduct themselves in a foreign environment on and off the court.\u201d<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u201cI expect the athletes to be challenged in all facets and I hope we can represent the country with pride and humility. It will be a significant challenge. However, all the boys have deserved the honour through many years of hard which led to this selection,\u201d said Pleydell.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Junior Davis Cup representative Jake Dembo was honoured to be selected to represent Australia in the Junior Davis Cup qualifying event.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u201cOver the decades there has been some great sportspeople represent Australia. I\u2019m looking forward to seeing the culture, how things work and going out and competing with the aim to qualify and compete in Turkey at the Junior Davis Cup Final,\u201d said Dembo.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The Junior Billie Jean King Cup qualifiers also takes place this week with matches already in progress. Alana Subasic (NSW), Tahlia Kokkinis (Qld) and Gabby Gregg (NSW) are competing in the girls\u2019 event which commenced on Monday.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u201cCongratulations to our top 16-and-under junior players on their selection to represent Australia at the upcoming Junior Billie Jean King Cup and Junior Davis Cup qualifying\u201d, Tennis Australia Chief Strategy and Performance Officer Tim Jolley said.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u201cPlaying at a high level in international team competition is a valuable development opportunity for our young athletes and representing your country is always a privilege.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u201cWe know they will do us proud, and we wish both the players and captains the very best of luck as they fight to qualify for the finals later this year.\u201d<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Daily results can be found here: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/itfjuniors.tournamentsoftware.com\/find?DateFilterType=1&amp;Distance=15&amp;page=1&amp;YearNr=2023&amp;MonthNr=5\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">Tournaments | ITF Juniors (tournamentsoftware.com)<\/span><\/a><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Young West Australian Jake Dembo will represent Australia at the prestigious Junior Davis Cup qualifiers at the Asia\/Oceania qualifying events in Shymkent, Kazakhstan from May 8.\u00a0 Jake Dembo will be joined by Lachlan McFadzean (Qld) and Jonas Hahn (SA) as well as fellow West Australian High Performance Coach Mitchell Pleydell who will captain the team.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6359,"featured_media":18487,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18486","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\/18486","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\/6359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18486\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}