{"id":4786,"date":"2013-09-16T16:26:03","date_gmt":"2013-09-16T06:56:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/?p=4786"},"modified":"2013-09-16T16:26:03","modified_gmt":"2013-09-16T06:56:03","slug":"peoples-choice-metro-league-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/news\/2013\/09\/16\/peoples-choice-metro-league-5","title":{"rendered":"People&#8217;s Choice Metro League"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #0091d2\"><em><strong>Round Eight<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Tennis Palmerston 1 clinch a close match against AWOF Sports !<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tennis Palmerston 1<\/strong>:\u00a0 3 Rubbers \/ 6 Sets \/ 56 Games<br \/>\n<strong>AWOF Sports<\/strong>:\u00a0 3 Rubbers \/ 6 Sets \/ 43 Games<\/p>\n<p>Daniel Parker (TP1) was in devastating form in the #1 singles destroying Desmond McLellan (AWOF)\u00a06-0 6-0. McLellan and doubles partner Lucas Frichot looked to be in good form in the early stages of the #1 doubles, before Parker and Darren Jacobson came back to take the rubber 7-5 6-1. Oscar Ferdinands and Rebecca Rayner won their respective singles and doubles matches for AWOF Sports; however they missed out on taking the vital premiership points by 13 games.<\/p>\n<p>Gardens Tennis 2 outnumber Tennis Palmerston 2<\/p>\n<p><strong>Gardens Tennis 2<\/strong>:\u00a0 3 Rubbers \/ 4 Sets \/ 29 Games<br \/>\n<strong>Tennis Palmerston 2<\/strong>:\u00a0 1 Rubber \/ 3 Sets \/ 34 Games<\/p>\n<p>Darrell Halim and Frank Wallner (GT2) secured the #1 doubles in a match tie-break after dropping the second set to Nicholas Munro and Matt Giess (TP2) 6-4 3-6 10-4. Halim also secured the #1 singles over Munro 6-2.<\/p>\n<p>Daniel Parker (TP1) has taken a commanding lead in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/competitions\/metro-league\/player-of-the-year\"><em><span style=\"color: #0091d2\"><strong>People&#8217;s Choice Metro League<\/strong> <\/span>Player of the Year<\/em> <\/a>with Michael Shepheard (GT1) and David Bridges (GT1) tied in second place.<\/p>\n<p>Gardens Tennis 1 maintain their lead at the top of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/competitions\/metro-league\"><em><span style=\"color: #0091d2\"><strong>People&#8217;s Choice Metro League<\/strong> <\/span>Ladder<\/em><\/a>, 4 points clear of their nearest rivals, Gardens Tennis 2 with two minor rounds left to play before the semi-finals.<\/p>\n<p>Further information can be found on the <a href=\"http:\/\/comps.tennis.com.au\/controls\/3\/home.aspx?save=0&amp;entityid=33003&amp;mode=1\" target=\"_blank\">Tennis NT Competition Webpage<\/a>:<br \/>\n&gt; Results<br \/>\n&gt; Ladder<br \/>\n&gt; Draw<br \/>\n&gt; Player Rating (CTR)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Round Eight Tennis Palmerston 1 clinch a close match against AWOF Sports ! Tennis Palmerston 1:\u00a0 3 Rubbers \/ 6 Sets \/ 56 Games AWOF Sports:\u00a0 3 Rubbers \/ 6 Sets \/ 43 Games Daniel Parker (TP1) was in devastating form in the #1 singles destroying Desmond McLellan (AWOF)\u00a06-0 6-0. McLellan and doubles partner Lucas [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5924,"featured_media":4787,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[8,11,146,133,119,7],"class_list":["post-4786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-awof-sports","tag-gardens-tennis","tag-michael-shepheard","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\/4786","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=4786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4786\/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=4786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}