{"id":2429,"date":"2011-08-16T11:47:20","date_gmt":"2011-08-16T02:17:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/?p=2429"},"modified":"2011-08-16T11:47:20","modified_gmt":"2011-08-16T02:17:20","slug":"metro-league-round-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/news\/2011\/08\/16\/metro-league-round-6","title":{"rendered":"Metro League – Round 6"},"content":{"rendered":"

DTC Sports have taken the home court advantage in Round 6 with a nail-biting 10 Rubbers to 8 win over LifeTime Gardens in the last minor round of the Metro League.<\/p>\n

With a number of key players absent from both teams it looked to be a close encounter between the rival clubs and the matches did not disappoint.<\/p>\n

Rubbers were tied after the doubles round, with both teams securing three wins each. Mark Pead and Des McLellan (Gardens) survived a fight back from DTC Sports pairing of Nicholas Munro and Matt Giess claiming victory 6-4 3-6 10-6. However, the DTC Sports pairings of Chris Wevill \/ Sam Giess and Tenille Waters \/ Stephanie Long both came back from a set down in their doubles to claim vital wins for DTC.<\/p>\n

The singles also had some close matches. Kane Nurton (DTC) displayed some great fighting spirit to comeback from a set down to defeated Darren Jakobson (Gardens) 4-6 6-2 10-5. Madeleine Murray (DTC) barely survived a fight back from David Bridges (Gardens) with a two point win in the match-tiebreak 6-3 5-7 10-8.<\/p>\n

LifeTime Gardens player, Des McLellan is back on top of the Player of the Year<\/em> <\/a>leader board with only the Finals remaining this weekend. McLellan has an 8 game lead over Sam Giess (DTC) who is coming a close second. Ian Redmond (Gardens), Nicholas Munro (DTC) and Mark Pead (Gardens) round out the top five. However there is any number of players that could take out the Player of the Year<\/em> title with scores being very close.<\/p>\n

DTC Sports remain on the top of the Premiership Table<\/em> <\/a>after Round 6:<\/p>\n

DTC Sports<\/strong>: 62 Rubbers\/135 Sets\/1,155 Games\/156 Points
\nLifeTime Gardens<\/strong>: 46 Rubbers\/107 Sets\/991 Games\/108 Points<\/p>\n

The Finals will be played at DTC Sports\u00a020 August 2011 @ 2.00pm\u00a0
\nPresentation and Finals Function at the end of play.<\/p>\n

<\/span>Round 6 Results:<\/p>\n

Singles<\/span>
\n<\/strong>Nicko Munro<\/strong> d Stuart Thompson 6-1 6-0
\nKacy Brennan<\/strong>d Mark Pead 6-1 6-1
\nHamish Martin lt Des McLellan<\/strong> 1-6 1-6
\nKaelan Bates lt Indra Suhraman<\/strong> 5-7 3-6
\nMaddie Murray<\/strong> d Dave Bridges 6-3 5-7 7-6
\nEmily Moo lt Ian Redmond<\/strong> 4-6 1-6
\nChris Wevill lt Cristian Musalem<\/strong> 0-6 3-6
\nSam Giess<\/strong>d Micheal Shepheard 6-0 6-3
\nMatt Giess<\/strong>d Scott Boller 6-1 7-5
\nKane Nurton<\/strong>d Darren Jakobson 4-6 6-2 7-6
\nTenille Waters lt Dennis Scrutton<\/strong> 4-6 1-6
\nStephanie Long<\/strong> d Tiffany 6-0 6-1<\/p>\n

Doubles<\/span><\/strong>
\nN.Munro\/M.Giess lt M.Pead\/D.McLellan<\/strong> 4-6 6-3 6-7
\nK.Brennan\/H.Martin\u00a0lt S.Thompson\/C.Musalem<\/strong> 4-6 2-6
\nE.Moo\/M.Murray lt D.Bridges\/I.Redmond<\/strong> 2-6 1-6
\nC.Wevill\/S.Giess<\/strong> d G.McCulloch\/S.Lewis-Driver 4-6 6-4 7-6
\nK.Bates\/K.Nurton<\/strong>d D.Scrutton\/I.Suhraman 6-2 6-1
\nT.Waters\/S.Long<\/strong>d S.Boller\/D.Jakobson 6-7 6-3 7-6<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

DTC Sports have taken the home court advantage in Round 6 with a nail-biting 10 Rubbers to 8 win over LifeTime Gardens in the last minor round of the Metro League. With a number of key players absent from both teams it looked to be a close encounter between the rival clubs and the matches […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5924,"featured_media":2432,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[57,44,63,54,51],"class_list":["post-2429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-des-mclellan","tag-dtc-sports","tag-kane-nurton","tag-lifetime-gardens","tag-metro-league"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5924"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2429\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}