{"id":4717,"date":"2013-08-29T11:38:51","date_gmt":"2013-08-29T02:08:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/?p=4717"},"modified":"2013-08-29T11:38:51","modified_gmt":"2013-08-29T02:08:51","slug":"peoples-choice-metro-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/news\/2013\/08\/29\/peoples-choice-metro-league","title":{"rendered":"People’s Choice Metro League"},"content":{"rendered":"

Round 4 of the People’s Choice Metro League<\/em> <\/strong><\/span>was played for the first time on a Wednesday night to fit the 12 round competition into\u00a0the\u00a0ten week competition block.<\/p>\n

AWOF Sports hosted Gardens Tennis 1 who were in devastating form !
\nAWOF Sports<\/strong>:\u00a01 rubber \/\u00a02 sets \/ 28games
\nGardens Tennis 1<\/strong>: 5 rubbers \/ 10 sets \/ 65 games<\/p>\n

Both doubles matches went the way of Gardens Tennis with the same score line 6-2 6-2. It was AWOF #1 Des McLellan who secured there only rubber of the night, 7-5 6-0 over Ben Scott. Michael Shepheard, Stephen Lewis-Driver and David Bridges all had comfortable wins, losing seven games collectively in their three matches.<\/p>\n

Tennis Palmerston 1 hosted Gardens Tennis 2 in a battle which came down to the very end !
\nTennis Palmerston 1<\/strong>: 3 rubbers \/ 6 sets \/ 55 games
\nGardens Tennis 2<\/strong>: 3 rubbers \/ 7 sets \/ 65 games<\/p>\n

The match of the night had to go to Bethany Illeman (TP1) and Stephen Tombens (GT2) who were the first singles match on court but the last match to finish. In the end it\u00a0was Illeman’s who secured the win 7-5 6-7 7-6 with a booming first serve ace down the ‘t’. Tombens had his revenge in the doubles however, teaming with Andrew Hawke to defeat Illeman and Darren Jacobson 6-1 6-1.<\/p>\n

After Round Four Gardens Tennis 1<\/strong> sits comfortably on top of the People’s Choice Metro League<\/strong> <\/em><\/span><\/a>Ladder with 38 points.<\/p>\n

Daniel Parker<\/strong> (TP1)\u00a0has a slight\u00a0lead on the People’s Choice Metro League Player of the Year<\/em><\/span><\/a> <\/strong><\/span>Leaderboard with 20 points.<\/p>\n

Further information can be found on the Tennis NT Competitions website page <\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/span>including:
\n> Latest Results
\n> Draw
\n> Ladder
\n> Player Ratings (CTR)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Round 4 of the People’s Choice Metro League was played for the first time on a Wednesday night to fit the 12 round competition into\u00a0the\u00a0ten week competition block. AWOF Sports hosted Gardens Tennis 1 who were in devastating form ! AWOF Sports:\u00a01 rubber \/\u00a02 sets \/ 28games Gardens Tennis 1: 5 rubbers \/ 10 sets […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5924,"featured_media":4296,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[153,11,133,119,7],"class_list":["post-4717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-awof","tag-gardens-tennis","tag-peoples-choice-credit-union","tag-peoples-choice-metro-league","tag-tennis-palmerston"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4717","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=4717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4717\/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=4717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}