{"id":3767,"date":"2012-08-21T16:50:40","date_gmt":"2012-08-21T07:20:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/?p=3767"},"modified":"2012-08-21T16:50:40","modified_gmt":"2012-08-21T07:20:40","slug":"peoples-choice-metro-league-round-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/news\/2012\/08\/21\/peoples-choice-metro-league-round-3","title":{"rendered":"People’s Choice Metro League – Round 3"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gardens Tennis v DTC Sports 2<\/span>
\nPeople’s Choice Metro League<\/strong><\/span>
\nGardens Tennis secured a surprise upset win against DTC Sports 2, with a 7 Rubbers to 2 win.
\nSteve Lewis-Driver and Frank Wallner (GT) got the ball rolling with a tightly fought 6-4 2-6 7-6 (7) win over Nicholas Munro and Kacy Brennan in the #1 doubles. Ian Redmond and David Bridges kept to the same theme, coming from a set down to clinch victory by 2 points in the Match Tie-break with a 4-6 7-6 7-6 (11) win.<\/p>\n

The close matches continued in the singles with Bridges overcoming a determined Giess 7-6 3-6 7-6 (5) in the #3 singles, while\u00a0Dean Moliari got some revenge for DTC Sports 2 when he overcame Redmond 6-4 3-6 7-6 (6) in the #4 singles.<\/p>\n

Other winners for Gardens Tennis included Frank Wallner, Scott Boller and Andrew Hawke.<\/p>\n

People’s Choice Reserve League<\/strong><\/span>
\nDTC Sports 2 secured a comfortable 5 Rubbers to 1 victory over Gardens Tennis.
\nOscar Ferdinands and Peter Politis had a close 6-4 6-3 win over Jacob Howden and Teyrnon Higginson in the #1 doubles, while Ronin Shima and Nikolas Mpilias easily accounted for Liam Jong and Serena Adams 6-1 6-0.<\/p>\n

However it was Adams who salvaged the lone Rubber for Gardens, with a very close\u00a07-6 7-6 win over Politis.<\/p>\n

DTC Sports 1 v Tennis Palmerston<\/strong>
\nPeople’s Choice Metro League<\/strong><\/span>
\nDTC Sports 1 accounted for the People’s Choice Metro League<\/strong><\/span> leaders, Tennis Palmerston with a 6 Rubbers to 3 win.<\/p>\n

Ryan Palfrey and Michael Shepheard got the home team off to a great start, claiming the #1 doubles 6-2 6-2 over Mark Pead and Des McLellan. The #2 doubles was a lot closer affair, with the visitors\u00a0Rhys Janes and Carlos Ruiz taking handy leads in both sets; however they were unable to win the big points and went down 4-6 5-7 to Jamie Stefanato and Madeleine Murray.<\/p>\n

The singles Rubbers were spread evenly with wins to Ryan Palfrey, Michael Shepheard, Lucas Frichot for DTC Sports 1 and Des McLellan, Rhys Janes and Max Lye for Tennis Palmerston.<\/p>\n

People’s Choice Reserve League<\/span><\/strong>
\nIn the closest match-up so far,\u00a0 DTC Sports 1 and Tennis Palmerston were locked at 3 Rubbers all at the end of play. It was DTC Sports 1 that walked away with the win\u00a0by 1 set and 4 games.
\nLiam Franklin and Rosie Henderson (DTC)\u00a0accounted for the Rayner sisters, Rebecca and Stephanie 6-0 7-5 in the #1 doubles, while Tanya Gallon and Riley Wauchope (TP) secured a close 4-6 7-6 7-6 (6) win.<\/p>\n

Franklin, Henderson, Gallon and Wauchope also secured singles wins for their respective teams.<\/p>\n

Results from Round 3<\/a>
\nPeople’s Choice Metro League Leader Board<\/a>
\nPeople’s Choice Metro League Player of the Year<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Gardens Tennis v DTC Sports 2 People’s Choice Metro League Gardens Tennis secured a surprise upset win against DTC Sports 2, with a 7 Rubbers to 2 win. Steve Lewis-Driver and Frank Wallner (GT) got the ball rolling with a tightly fought 6-4 2-6 7-6 (7) win over Nicholas Munro and Kacy Brennan in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5924,"featured_media":3768,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[44,11,119,7],"class_list":["post-3767","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\/3767","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=3767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3767\/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=3767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}