{"id":5625,"date":"2014-09-10T16:53:06","date_gmt":"2014-09-10T07:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/?p=5625"},"modified":"2014-09-10T16:53:06","modified_gmt":"2014-09-10T07:23:06","slug":"peoples-choice-metro-league-round-5-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/news\/2014\/09\/10\/peoples-choice-metro-league-round-5-2","title":{"rendered":"People&#8217;s Choice Metro League &#8211; Round 5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Round 5 was &#8216;Club Week&#8217; in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/competitions\/metro-league\"><strong><em><span style=\"color: #0091d2\">People&#8217;s Choice Metro League<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/a> with all three centres hosting home matches.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Gardens Tennis 1 (5-10-68) <\/strong>def Gardens Tennis 2 (1-2-44)<br \/>\nThe top team continue their winning form with a five rubbers to one win over their fellow team-mates. Naomi Fellows and Ben Scott dominating the doubles court with an impressive 6-0 6-3 win over Andrew Hawke and Matt Grassmayr.<\/p>\n<p><strong>AWOF Sports 1 (5-11-78)<\/strong> def AWOF Sports 2 (1-2-47)<br \/>\nAWOF Sports 1 jump into second place on the People&#8217;s Choice Metro League ladder after a convincing five rubbers to one win over their fellow team-mates. Des McLellan and Peter Politis clinched the only rubber for AWOF Sports 2 with a hard fought come from behind and come from match points down win over Mark Pead and Oscar Ferdinands 4-6 7-5 7-6.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tennis Palmerston 2 (4-9-75)<\/strong> def Tennis Palmerston 1 (2-5-61)<br \/>\nOnly match to go against the team numbers with Tennis Palmerston 2 claiming a four rubbers to two win over their fellow team-mates. In an impressive singles display Matt Giess came from a set down to defeat Jonathan Grigg in a marathon match tie-break 3-6 7-6 17-15.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/competitions\/metro-league\/player-of-the-year\"><span style=\"color: #0091d2\"><em><strong>People&#8217;s Choice Metro League Player of the Year<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/a> still remains with Naomi Fellows (GT1) with a seven point lead over Andrew Hawke (GT2) in second place and fellow team-mate Harry Lee-Schell (GT1) another two points behind that.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/competitions\/metro-league\"><span style=\"color: #e10073\"><em><strong>People&#8217;s Choice Junior League<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/a> also saw some close matches between clubs.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Gardens Tennis 2 (3-7-32)<\/strong> def Gardens Tennis 1 (3-6-31)<br \/>\nThe top of the ladder clash didn&#8217;t disappoint with the match coming down to a count back on sets and games after being all square with three rubbers each. Nicholas Carmichael and Coen Hutt came from a set down to claim victory for Gardens Tennis 1 with a 1-4 4-0 4-1 win over Kyle O&#8217;Donoghue-Ellis and Ashley Setterfield.<\/p>\n<p><strong>AWOF Sports 2 (4-9-45)<\/strong> def AWOF Sports 1 (2-5-32)<br \/>\nTwo fabulous come from behind wins in the singles got this match underway and could have led to a completely different final result. Stephanie Rayner (AS1) successfully overcame Eilis Kruger (AS2) in the number one singles 2-4 4-1 4-1, while Aditya Aiyappan (AS2) defeated Kyran Kerr (AS1) 2-4 4-2 4-1 in the number four singles.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Round 6 Draw<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<table border=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center\" colspan=\"4\"><span style=\"color: #0091d2\"><strong>People&#8217;s Choice Metro League<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"color: #0091d2\"><strong>Team 1<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"color: #0091d2\"><strong>Team 2<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"color: #0091d2\"><strong>Venue<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Tennis Palmerston 1<\/td>\n<td>v<\/td>\n<td>AWOF Sports 1<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center\">TP<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>AWOF Sports 2<\/td>\n<td>v<\/td>\n<td>Gardens Tennis 1<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center\">AWOF<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Tennis Palmerston 2<\/td>\n<td>v<\/td>\n<td>Gardens Tennis 2<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center\">TP<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center\" colspan=\"4\"><span style=\"color: #e10073\"><strong>People&#8217;s Choice Junior League<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"color: #e10073\"><strong>Team 1<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"color: #e10073\"><strong>Team 2<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"color: #e10073\"><strong>Venue<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>AWOF Sports 1<\/td>\n<td>v<\/td>\n<td>Gardens Tennis 1<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center\">AWOF<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Gardens Tennis 2<\/td>\n<td>v<\/td>\n<td>AWOF Sports 2<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center\">GT<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Round 5 was &#8216;Club Week&#8217; in the People&#8217;s Choice Metro League with all three centres hosting home matches. Gardens Tennis 1 (5-10-68) def Gardens Tennis 2 (1-2-44) The top team continue their winning form with a five rubbers to one win over their fellow team-mates. Naomi Fellows and Ben Scott dominating the doubles court with [&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":[8,11,133,188,119,7],"class_list":["post-5625","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-junior-league","tag-peoples-choice-metro-league","tag-tennis-palmerston"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5625","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=5625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5625\/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=5625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}