{"id":5845,"date":"2013-03-18T12:00:37","date_gmt":"2013-03-18T04:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/?p=5845"},"modified":"2013-03-18T12:00:37","modified_gmt":"2013-03-18T04:00:37","slug":"the-national-academy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/news\/2013\/03\/18\/the-national-academy","title":{"rendered":"The National Academy"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The National Academy<\/strong> \u2013 Perth has had a number of significant results recently at tournaments including the Nationals<\/strong> at the December Showdown, the Grade 1 Traralgon Junior ITF, the Australian Open Junior Championships and three ITF events in New Zealand.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Maddison Inglis<\/strong> has been a stand out performer over the past two months reaching the semi-final of the girls singles events in both the 14\u2019s and 16\u2019s Nationals at the December Showdown.<\/strong> Maddison<\/strong> backed this up by qualifying for the Loy Yang Traralgon International Championships<\/strong> in Victoria. Madison<\/strong> lost a close three set encounter to the number 2 junior player in the world – Katarina Siniakova<\/strong> (who went on to become runner-up in the Australian Open Juniors). Maddison<\/strong> continued her great form in New Zealand by reaching a singles final, a semi-final and a Quarterfinal in the three ITF tournaments in New Zealand<\/strong> that she competed in. With her impressive string of victories, Maddison<\/strong> has dropped her ITF World junior ranking from 1280 to 414 in the World.<\/p>\n

Other notable National Academy performances on tour this summer
\n– Scott Jones<\/strong> won the U\/14 boys National Doubles Title<\/strong> at the December Showdown with partner Max Purcell.<\/strong> This was Scott\u2019s second national title of the 2012 year the first coming with National Academy player Jack Lyttle<\/strong> at the National Grasscourts<\/strong>
\n– Anja Dokic<\/strong> made her first singles Semi-final at the ITF Group 3 event in New Zealand<\/strong>.
\n– Former National Academy player Storm Sanders<\/strong> won her first ITF Women\u2019s Pro-Circuit event<\/strong> at the $25,000 event held in Launceston.
\n– Astra Sharma<\/strong> with partner Samantha Harris<\/strong> made the round of 16 at the Australian Open Junior Girls Doubles.<\/strong>
\n– The Western Australian 14\u2019s Girls State Team finished Runner-Up to Victoria at the December Showdown. The team consisted of \u2013 Maddison Inglis, Sasha Bollweg and Sara Stikic<\/strong><\/p>\n

National Academy Rankings<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Player<\/strong><\/td>\nAustralian Ranking<\/strong><\/td>\nInternational Junior Ranking<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Astra Sharma<\/td>\n53<\/td>\n229<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Madison Inglis<\/td>\n78<\/td>\n414<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Anja Dokic<\/td>\n102<\/td>\n391<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Jack Lyttle<\/td>\n221<\/td>\n1757<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Scott Jones<\/td>\n204<\/td>\nNR<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

\u00a0Player Highlights – Pro Tour<\/strong><\/p>\n

Anja Dokic<\/strong> (WA) qualified into the ITF $10,000 event in Sydney, Australia.<\/p>\n

Astra Sharma<\/strong> (WA) qualified into the ITF $10,000 event in Sydney, Australia. She also made the doubles quarterfinal with Samantha Harris (VIC).<\/p>\n

Jessica Moore<\/strong> (WA) made the singles final at the ITF $10,000 event in Sydney, Australia. She also made the doubles final with Anja Dokic (WA).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The National Academy \u2013 Perth has had a number of significant results recently at tournaments including the Nationals at the December Showdown, the Grade 1 Traralgon Junior ITF, the Australian Open Junior Championships and three ITF events in New Zealand. Maddison Inglis has been a stand out performer over the past two months reaching the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5894,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5845","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\/5894"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5845\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}