{"id":4889,"date":"2013-10-14T13:36:44","date_gmt":"2013-10-14T04:06:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/?p=4889"},"modified":"2013-10-14T13:36:44","modified_gmt":"2013-10-14T04:06:44","slug":"peoples-choice-metro-league-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/news\/2013\/10\/14\/peoples-choice-metro-league-9","title":{"rendered":"People’s Choice Metro League"},"content":{"rendered":"

Grand Final<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Club pride was on the line with an all Gardens Tennis Grand Final in the People’s Choice Metro League<\/em> <\/strong><\/span>Grand Final.<\/p>\n

Gardens Tennis 1:<\/strong>\u00a0 3 Rubbers \/ 8 Sets \/ 74 Games
\nGardens Tennis 2:<\/strong>\u00a0 3 Rubbers \/ 7 Sets \/ 79 Games<\/p>\n

Frank Wallner and Mark Pead got GT2 off to a great start with a convincing 6-1 6-4 win in the #1 Doubles over Harrison Lee-Schell and Ben Scott. GT1 pairing of Michael Shepheard and David Bridges squared everything up with a close fought win over Naomi Fellows and Andrew Hawke 7-6(4) 6-4. Fellows got her revenge in the singles with a gruelling win over youngster Shepheard in a match tie-break 4-6 7-5 10-5. The result was reversed in the #1 singles with Lee-Schell taking out Pead 6-4 2-6 10-4.<\/p>\n

All tied up with two matches to go Steve Lewis-Driver stepped in for GT1 defeating Andrew Hawke 6-3 6-3 in the #4 singles. With GT1 ahead by 3 Rubbers to 2 they only needed one set to clinch victory, GT1 #2 Ben Scott was\u00a0trailing GT2\u00a0Frank Wallner 4-1 in the first set with a count-back looking likely, however Scott dug\u00a0deep to take the next five games to claim the set and ultimately the Grand Final for Gardens Tennis 1.<\/p>\n

Be sure to check out the updated People’s Choice Metro League <\/a><\/strong>section; Honour Roll, Player of the Year, Draws, Results and Photo Gallery.<\/p>\n

For full results and player ratings be sure to check out the Tennis NT Competition webpage<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Grand Final Club pride was on the line with an all Gardens Tennis Grand Final in the People’s Choice Metro League Grand Final. Gardens Tennis 1:\u00a0 3 Rubbers \/ 8 Sets \/ 74 Games Gardens Tennis 2:\u00a0 3 Rubbers \/ 7 Sets \/ 79 Games Frank Wallner and Mark Pead got GT2 off to a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5924,"featured_media":4877,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[11,146,133,119],"class_list":["post-4889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-gardens-tennis","tag-michael-shepheard","tag-peoples-choice-credit-union","tag-peoples-choice-metro-league"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4889","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=4889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4889\/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=4889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}