{"id":4863,"date":"2013-10-07T11:02:58","date_gmt":"2013-10-07T01:32:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/?p=4863"},"modified":"2013-10-07T11:02:58","modified_gmt":"2013-10-07T01:32:58","slug":"peoples-choice-metro-league-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/news\/2013\/10\/07\/peoples-choice-metro-league-8","title":{"rendered":"People&#8217;s Choice Metro League"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #0091d2\"><em><strong>Semi-Finals Action<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Gardens Tennis 1 cruise into the Metro League Grand Final !<\/p>\n<p><strong>Gardens Tennis 1<\/strong>:\u00a0 5 Rubbers \/ 10 Sets \/ 66 Games<br \/>\n<strong>AWOF Sports:<\/strong>\u00a0 1 Rubber \/ 3 Sets \/ 34 Games<\/p>\n<p>Harrison Lee-Schell and Ben Scott got Gardens Tennis 1 off to a great start with a convincing win in the #1 doubles over Desmond McLellan and Madeleine Murray 6-1 6-1. However McLellan got his revenge in the #1 singles defeating Lee-Schell 6-1 6-2.<\/p>\n<p>David Bridges and Michael Shepheard (GT1)\u00a0didn&#8217;t have it all their own way in the #2 doubles, dropping the first set to Lucas Frichot and Oscar Ferdinands 2-6. The Gardens pairing fought back to take the second set comfortably 6-1 and held onto the match tie-break 10-7.<\/p>\n<p>Gardens Tennis 2 outlast Tennis Palmerston in a struggle !<\/p>\n<p><strong>Gardens Tennis 2:<\/strong>\u00a0 4 Rubbers \/ 9 Sets \/ 79 Games<br \/>\n<strong>Tennis Palmerston 1<\/strong>:\u00a0 2 Rubbers \/ 4 Sets \/ 52 Games<\/p>\n<p>Naomi Fellows and Andrew Hawke rushed through their #2 doubles to give Gardens Tennis 2 an early lead, losing just three games to Darren Jacobson and Bethany Illeman&#8217;s 6-0 6-3. The same can&#8217;t be said for the #1 doubles which saw Daniel Parker and Sam Giess (TP1) clinch victory in a tightly fought match against Darrell Halim and Mark Pead 5-7 7-6 10-4.<\/p>\n<p>Parker also had a battle on his hands in the singles with Halim extending the Palmerston number one 7-5 7-5. Gardens Tennis 2 ran away with the remaining singles with wins to Pead, Fellows and Hawke.<\/p>\n<p>The Grand Final will be a local derby with Gardens Tennis 1 taking on Gardens Tennis 2 for Club bragging rights. The Final will be conducted on Saturday at Gardens Tennis from 3.00pm with a BBQ function and presentation to follow.<\/p>\n<p>For full results, player ratings be sure to check out 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>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Semi-Finals Action Gardens Tennis 1 cruise into the Metro League Grand Final ! Gardens Tennis 1:\u00a0 5 Rubbers \/ 10 Sets \/ 66 Games AWOF Sports:\u00a0 1 Rubber \/ 3 Sets \/ 34 Games Harrison Lee-Schell and Ben Scott got Gardens Tennis 1 off to a great start with a convincing win in the #1 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5924,"featured_media":4864,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[8,11,133,119,7],"class_list":["post-4863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-awof-sports","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\/4863","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=4863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4863\/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=4863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}