{"id":3832,"date":"2012-09-04T19:42:58","date_gmt":"2012-09-04T10:12:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/?p=3832"},"modified":"2012-09-04T19:42:58","modified_gmt":"2012-09-04T10:12:58","slug":"peoples-choice-metro-league-round-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/news\/2012\/09\/04\/peoples-choice-metro-league-round-5","title":{"rendered":"People’s Choice Metro League – Round 5"},"content":{"rendered":"

DTC Sports 2 have a two point lead heading into the final round of the People\u2019s Choice Metro League<\/strong><\/span><\/em> <\/a>over Gardens Tennis.<\/p>\n

TENNIS PALMERSTON v DTC SPORTS 2<\/strong>
\nPeople’s Choice Metro League
\n<\/span>
\nRound 5 saw DTC Sports 2 have a convincing 7 Rubbers to 2 win over Tennis Palmerston.
\nNicholas Munro (DTC2) stamped his authority early; with a 6-0 6-1 win over Des McLellan (TP). Rhys Janes (TP)\u00a0also had a convincing win, 6-2 6-0 over Matt Giess. Janes and McLellan secured Palmerston’s only other win, 6-4 3-6 10-7 over Munro and Kacy Brennan.
\nBrennan backed up his close doubles win with an even close singles win over Ben Lye 7-5 6-7 11-9. Other winners for DTC Sports included Dean Moliari, Sam Giess and Tenille Waters.<\/p>\n

People’s Choice Reserve League
\n<\/span>
\nDTC Sports secured all six Rubbers against Tennis Palmerston. DTC Sports didn’t have it all their own way with\u00a0Rebecca Rayner pushing Oscar Ferdinands to a\u00a0match tie-break, going down 4-6 6-4 5-10. Riley Wauchope (TP)\u00a0also extended Peter Politis\u00a0(DTC2) to a match tie-break, going down 2-6 6-4 2-10.<\/p>\n

DTC SPORTS 1 v GARDENS TENNIS<\/strong>
\nPeople’s Choice Metro League<\/span><\/p>\n

Gardens Tennis and DTC Sports 1 had a closer battle, with DTC Sports 1 taking the win 5 Rubbers to 4.
\nRyan Palfrey and Michael Shepheard got the team of to a great start, claiming a 6-2 5-7 10-2 win over James Hunter and Frank Wallner. Palfrey and Shepheard also secured singles win over Hunter and Scott Boller respectively. Gardens Tennis stalwarts, Ian Redmond and Dave Bridges secured a 6-2 5-7 11-9 win over Jamie Stefanato and Tristan King. Redmond and Bridges were also extended to the match tie-break in the singles. Redmond advancing past Emily Moo 3-6 6-4 10-1, while Bridges went down to King 6-3 4-6 8-10.<\/p>\n

People’s Choice Reserve League<\/span><\/p>\n

DTC Sports 1 almost made a clean sweep as well, claiming 5 of the 6 Rubbers on offer.
\nLiam Jong saved Gardens Tennis with a 6-2 6-4 win over Katie Riggall. Jong and Serena Adams tried their best in the doubles but were eventually taken down by Riggall and Rosie Henderson 6-4 6-0. Other winners for DTC Sports 1 included; Lauren Riggall and\u00a0Liam Franklin.<\/p>\n

Major changes in the People\u2019s Choice Metro League Player of the Year<\/strong> <\/span><\/a><\/span>with Andrew Hawke (GT) undefeated on top of the ladder with 8 Rubbers, 16 Sets and 97 Games. Nicholas Munro (DTC2), Scott Boller (GT), Rhys Janes (TP) and Ryan Palfrey (DTC1) rounding out the Top 5.
\n*please note the People’s Choice Metro League Player of the Year is unable to be updated at this stage.<\/p>\n

<\/em>Results from Round 5 can be found here.
\n<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/strong>
\nRound 6 Saturday, 8 September<\/strong>
\nTennis Palmerston v DTC Sports 1
\nDTC Sports 2 v Gardens Tennis<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

DTC Sports 2 have a two point lead heading into the final round of the People\u2019s Choice Metro League over Gardens Tennis. TENNIS PALMERSTON v DTC SPORTS 2 People’s Choice Metro League Round 5 saw DTC Sports 2 have a convincing 7 Rubbers to 2 win over Tennis Palmerston. Nicholas Munro (DTC2) stamped his authority […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5924,"featured_media":3729,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[44,11,119,107,86,7],"class_list":["post-3832","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-player-of-the-month","tag-tennis-nt","tag-tennis-palmerston"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3832","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=3832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3832\/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=3832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}