{"id":3748,"date":"2012-08-14T15:53:33","date_gmt":"2012-08-14T06:23:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/?p=3748"},"modified":"2012-08-14T15:53:33","modified_gmt":"2012-08-14T06:23:33","slug":"peoples-choice-metro-league-round-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/news\/2012\/08\/14\/peoples-choice-metro-league-round-2","title":{"rendered":"People’s Choice Metro League – Round 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last week saw the top of the Premiership Table <\/a>clash between DTC Sports 2 and Tennis Palmerston, which saw Palmy come away with a 6 Rubbers to 3 win.<\/p>\n

People’s Choice Metro League
\n<\/span>DTC Sports 2 v Tennis Palmerston<\/span><\/strong>
\nTennis Palmerston held a 2-1 lead going into the singles, until DTC Sports 2\u00a0#1 Nicholas Munro levelled the score with a comfortable 6-1 6-1 win over George Shepheard. However Tennis Palmerston secured the tie with victories to Matt Dudley, Mark Pead, Ben Lye and Rhys Janes in the remaining singles.<\/p>\n

Tennis Palmerston<\/strong>:\u00a0 6 Rubbers \/ 13 Sets \/ 100 Games
\nDTC Sports 2<\/strong>:\u00a0 3 Rubbers \/ 7 Sets \/ 69 Games<\/p>\n

People’s Choice Reserve League<\/strong><\/span>
\nTennis Palmerston had a clean sweep against DTC Sports 2, claiming all 6 Rubbers. DTC Sports\u00a0#4 Grace Henderson\u00a0put up a great fight against Valentina Floeck, just going down 4-6 3-6. Floeck teamed with Rebecca Rayner for a comfortable 6-1 6-1 win over Henderson and Eilis Kruger in the #2 doubles.<\/p>\n

Tennis Palmerston<\/strong>:\u00a0 6 Rubbers \/ 12 Sets \/ 72 Games
\nDTC Sports 2<\/strong>:\u00a0 0 Rubbers \/ 0 Sets \/ 18 Games<\/p>\n

People’s Choice Metro League
\nGardens Tennis v DTC Sports 1<\/span><\/strong>
\nGardens Tennis hosted DTC Sports 1 in the other tie, which saw Gardens clinch a comfortable 7 Rubbers to 2 win.<\/p>\n

Ryan Palfrey and Michael Shepheard got DTC Sports 1 off to a win, coming from a set down to defeat Daniel Parker and Steve Lewis-Driver 2-6 6-4 7-6 (8). However Gardens fought back to win the remaining two doubles and kept rolling home to take five of the six singles Rubbers. Palfrey salvaged the lone singles victory for DTC Sports with a 6-1 6-4 win over Parker.<\/p>\n

Gardens Tennis<\/strong>:\u00a0 7 Rubbers \/ 15 Sets \/ 105 Games
\nDTC Sports 1<\/strong>:\u00a0 2 Rubbers \/ 4 Sets \/ 52 Games<\/p>\n

People’s Choice Reserve League<\/strong><\/span>
\nThe late afternoon heat claimed a few victims at Gardens Tennis, however it did not affect the quality of matches on show. Gardens #3 Liam Jong clinch a close victory over Katie Riggall 6-4 0-6 7-6 (9) and both players again shone for there respective teams in the doubles. Jong and Serena Adams came back from a set down to defeat Riggall and Jaimee Murphy 4-6 6-3 7-6 (10).<\/p>\n

Gardens Tennis<\/strong>:\u00a0 5 Rubbers \/ 10 Sets \/ 66 Games
\nDTC Sports 1<\/strong>:\u00a0 0 Rubbers \/ 2 Sets \/ 37 Games<\/p>\n

After Round 2 the People’s Choice Metro League Player of the Year<\/strong> <\/a>is a tightly contested battle with Matt Dudley (Tennis Palmerston) and Nicholas Munro (DTC Sports 2) both undefeated after two rounds.<\/p>\n

Results from Round 2 are now available.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last week saw the top of the Premiership Table clash between DTC Sports 2 and Tennis Palmerston, which saw Palmy come away with a 6 Rubbers to 3 win. People’s Choice Metro League DTC Sports 2 v Tennis Palmerston Tennis Palmerston held a 2-1 lead going into the singles, until DTC Sports 2\u00a0#1 Nicholas Munro […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5924,"featured_media":3749,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[44,11,119,7],"class_list":["post-3748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-dtc-sports","tag-gardens-tennis","tag-peoples-choice-metro-league","tag-tennis-palmerston"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3748","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=3748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3748\/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=3748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}