{"id":3092,"date":"2016-08-20T10:08:19","date_gmt":"2016-08-20T02:08:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oceaniatennis.com\/newsite\/?p=3092"},"modified":"2016-08-20T10:09:36","modified_gmt":"2016-08-20T02:09:36","slug":"pacific-oceania-14-and-under-circuit-201516","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oceaniatennis.com\/newsite\/latest\/pacific-oceania-14-and-under-circuit-201516\/","title":{"rendered":"Pacific Oceania 14 and Under Circuit 2015\/16"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Pacific Oceania ITF Development Officer, Darran Wrighton writes that &#8220;from November 2015 to August 2016 over 50 boys and 30 girls competed in 8 events held in 5 Nations across the 3 Pacific Regions with 14 Pacific Nations\u00a0being represented in this circuit. The results are: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceaniatennis.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/P14-results.pdf\">P14 results<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The concept is to match neighbouring Pacific countries up so that they run National 14 and under events that the ITF will financially assist players from neighbouring nations to attend. The players then also get the opportunity to compete in the Regional Championships and then also the Pacific Oceania Junior Championships should they qualify from the Regional Championships.<\/p>\n<p>The events were as follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Event 1<\/span><\/strong> &#8211; \u00a0Tan Holdings Tennis Classic \u2013 North Pacific \u2013 Saipan \u00a0&#8211; December 2015 \u2013 National Event<\/li>\n<li><strong>Event 2<\/strong> &#8211; \u00a0Vanuatu Regional Championships \u2013 West Pacific \u2013 Vanuatu \u2013 December 2015 \u2013 National Event<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Event 3<\/strong><\/span> &#8211; \u00a0Chamorro Open \u2013 North Pacific \u2013 Guam \u2013 March 2016 \u2013 National Event<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Event 4<\/strong><\/span> &#8211; \u00a0Easter Open \u2013 West Pacific \u2013 Fiji \u2013 April 2016 \u2013 National Event<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Event 5<\/strong> <\/span>\u2013 West Pacific Regional Championships \u2013 Fiji \u2013 May 2016 \u2013 Regional Event<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Event 6<\/strong><\/span> \u2013 North Pacific Regional Championships \u2013 Saipan \u2013 June 2016 \u2013 Regional Event<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Event 7<\/strong> <\/span>\u2013 East Pacific Regional Championships \u2013 Samoa \u2013 August 2016 \u2013 Regional Event<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Event 8<\/strong><\/span> \u2013 Pacific Oceania Junior Championships \u2013 Fiji \u2013 August 2016 \u2013 Pacific Finals<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It is hoped that Nations will continue to build on the success of this circuit and that 12 and under players will enter both the 12\u2019s and the 14\u2019s age groups to increase their competitive opportunities.<\/p>\n<p>At the end of the circuit there are exclusive benefits offered to the\u00a0# 1 player of the Boy&#8217;s and Girl&#8217;s circuits as well as the winners of the 14\u2019s POJC event. Top of circuit leaderboard for Boy&#8217;s and Girl&#8217;s-$500 travel grant to be used during 2016 \/ 2017<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Winner of POJC Girls 14\u2019s \u2013 representing Pacific Oceania in the WTA future stars competition to be held in Singapore. A $1000 travel grant is provided through the OTF and the WTA.<\/li>\n<li>Winner of POJC Boy\u2019s 14\u2019s \u2013 Travel Grant of up to $1000 to attend one of the Pacific Oceania Touring program events in 2017.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In 2017 it is hoped that the Nations of Samoa and American Samoa will also host some national level events for their players to compete in.<\/p>\n<p>Details of the 2016 \/ 2017 circuit will be sent to all Nations in the near future.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pacific Oceania ITF Development Officer, Darran Wrighton writes that &#8220;from November 2015 to August 2016 over 50 boys and 30 girls competed in 8 events held in 5 Nations across the 3 Pacific Regions with 14 Pacific Nations\u00a0being represented &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oceaniatennis.com\/newsite\/latest\/pacific-oceania-14-and-under-circuit-201516\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Pacific Oceania 14 and Under Circuit 2015\/16<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oceaniatennis.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3092"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oceaniatennis.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oceaniatennis.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceaniatennis.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceaniatennis.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3092"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceaniatennis.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3178,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceaniatennis.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3092\/revisions\/3178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oceaniatennis.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceaniatennis.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceaniatennis.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}