{"id":19172,"date":"2023-12-15T03:49:22","date_gmt":"2023-12-14T19:49:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/?p=19172"},"modified":"2023-12-15T03:50:13","modified_gmt":"2023-12-14T19:50:13","slug":"was-aidan-chan-crowned-boys-singles-champion-at-12-u-australian-junior-tour-masters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/news\/2023\/12\/15\/was-aidan-chan-crowned-boys-singles-champion-at-12-u-australian-junior-tour-masters","title":{"rendered":"WA’s Aidan Chan Crowned Boys’ Singles Champion at 12\/U Australian Junior Tour Masters"},"content":{"rendered":"

Western Australia’s Aidan Chan has denied his doubles partner, top seed Tommy Camus, in a straight-sets singles final at the 2023 December Showdown.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Aidan Chan gives nothing away cheaply when it comes to the crunch, so it comes as no surprise Rafael Nadal is the inspiration behind his 12-and-under Australian Junior Tour Masters triumph on Friday.<\/p>\n

The second seed from Perth channelled the 22-time major champion\u2019s fight to upstage top seed Tommy Camus 6-1 6-4 at the 2023 December Showdown.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s mixed emotions. I was playing my best friend but it\u2019s pretty cool,\u201d Chan said. \u201cThis is my first win at nationals, so that\u2019s nice.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was pretty close in the second set, so just putting that extra ball in every time frustrated him and it\u2019s what got me over the line in the end.\u201d<\/p>\n

The 12-year-old Chan cites his mindset as arguably his greatest attribute \u2013 \u201cprobably being able to outwork the other player\u201d.<\/p>\n

It proved pivotal as he never wavered under the pump against his Canberra opponent, who sought to follow in older brother Charlie Camus\u2019 footsteps as a champion in the under-12s.<\/p>\n

\u201cRafa chases every ball, never gives up no matter the score. Basically he can do anything he wants really,\u201d Chan says. \u201cI sort of replicate it going for every ball and never giving up.\u201d<\/p>\n

Chan joins the likes of Wimbledon 2022 finalist Nick Kyrgios (2008), world No.150 Marc Polmans (2009) and Philip Sekulic (2015), who won his first ATP match at Chengdu this year, as former winners of the event.<\/p>\n

\u201cWow, that\u2019s pretty special,\u201d Chan said when told Kyrgios had won the event. \u201cI\u2019ve seen his face around here (on posters) but didn\u2019t know that.\u201d<\/p>\n

In an all unseeded doubles final, Victorian pair Yile Li and Christopher Manton downed the ACT\u2019s Jobe Dikkenberg and Queenslander Christian Joseph 7-5 6-3.<\/p>\n

Li and Manton earlier beat top seeds Chan and Camus 6-3 6-7(3) [10-3] in the doubles semifinals, while Dikkenberg and Joseph eased past South Australians Minh-Khiem Nguyen and Elisha Wee 6-3 6-3.<\/p>\n

12\/U AUSTRALIAN JUNIOR TOUR MASTERS<\/strong><\/p>\n

TODAY\u2019S RESULTS
\n<\/strong>Boys\u2019 singles, final
\n<\/em>[2] Aidan Chan (WA) d\u00a0[1] Tommy Camus (ACT) 6-1 6-4<\/p>\n

Boys\u2019 doubles, semifinals
\n<\/em>Yile Li (Vic)\/Christopher Manton (Vic) d\u00a0[1] Tommy Camus (ACT)\/Aidan Chan (WA) 6-3 6-7(3) [10-3]
\nJobe Dikkenberg (ACT)\/Christian Joseph (Qld) d\u00a0Minh-Khiem Nguyen (SA)\/Elisha Wee (SA) 6-3 6-3<\/p>\n

Boys\u2019 doubles, final
\n<\/em>Yile Li (Vic)\/Christopher Manton (Vic) d\u00a0Jobe Dikkenberg (ACT)\/Christian Joseph (Qld) 7-5 6-3
\n<\/em><\/p>\n

> VIEW: 12\/u Australian Junior Tour Masters draws<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Western Australia’s Aidan Chan has denied his doubles partner, top seed Tommy Camus, in a straight-sets singles final at the 2023 December Showdown. Aidan Chan gives nothing away cheaply when it comes to the crunch, so it comes as no surprise Rafael Nadal is the inspiration behind his 12-and-under Australian Junior Tour Masters triumph on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6359,"featured_media":19173,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19172","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\/19172","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=19172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19172\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}