{"id":8820,"date":"2014-05-12T11:09:34","date_gmt":"2014-05-12T03:09:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/?p=8820"},"modified":"2014-05-12T11:09:34","modified_gmt":"2014-05-12T03:09:34","slug":"australia-wins-junior-fed-cup-qualifying-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/news\/2014\/05\/12\/australia-wins-junior-fed-cup-qualifying-event","title":{"rendered":"Australia Wins Junior Fed Cup Qualifying Event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8821\" alt=\"Australia-JFC-700x450\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/files\/2014\/05\/Australia-JFC-700x450-410x263.jpg\" width=\"410\" height=\"263\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Australia has finished in top spot at the Junior Fed Cup Asia\/Oceania qualifying competition in Malaysia last month, securing its place in September\u2019s finals.<\/p>\n<p>The Australian team of Priscilla Hon, Kimberly Birrell and <strong>Maddison Inglis<\/strong> finished No.1 after defeating China 2-0 in\u00a0the final;\u00a0Birrell beat Ma Shu Yue 6-3 6-2 before Hon, celebrating her 16th birthday, sealed victory with a 7-6(4) 6-1 win over Wu Shuang Zheng.<\/p>\n<p>Australia earlier recorded 2-1 wins over India and Japan in the respective quarterfinal and semifinal stages of the play-offs, after having gone undefeated in round robin play with victories over Singapore,\u00a0Hong Kong and Uzbekistan.<\/p>\n<p>The top-seeded Aussies were so dominant during their week in Kuching that they did not even relinquish a set in their round robin group stage.<\/p>\n<p>Sixteen teams were competing for the four available spots at the Junior Fed Cup finals in San Luis Potosi in Mexico on 23-28 September 2014; joining Australia from the Asia\/Oceania zone are China, Japan and Thailand.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/itfjuniors.tournamentsoftware.com\/sport\/drawsheet.aspx?id=1E454055-73AB-4E33-807C-350F346B890F&amp;draw=13\" target=\"_blank\">&gt; check out the play-off draw and full results\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australia has finished in top spot at the Junior Fed Cup Asia\/Oceania qualifying competition in Malaysia last month, securing its place in September\u2019s finals. The Australian team of Priscilla Hon, Kimberly Birrell and Maddison Inglis finished No.1 after defeating China 2-0 in\u00a0the final;\u00a0Birrell beat Ma Shu Yue 6-3 6-2 before Hon, celebrating her 16th birthday, [&hellip;]<\/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-8820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8820","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=8820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8820\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}