{"id":5995,"date":"2015-03-30T10:34:46","date_gmt":"2015-03-30T01:04:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/?p=5995"},"modified":"2015-03-30T10:34:46","modified_gmt":"2015-03-30T01:04:46","slug":"5995","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/news\/2015\/03\/30\/5995","title":{"rendered":"Barra’s victorious in JTL Grand Final"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Grand Final of the Junior Tennis League<\/em><\/strong><\/span> was looming to be a great encounter between the Buffalo\u2019s, who had been on top of the ladder for the duration of the minor rounds and the Barra\u2019s, who had sat at the bottom for most of the competition.<\/p>\n

The Barra\u2019s got an early lead in the opening round singles with Liam Franklin<\/span> and Rebecca Rayner<\/span> claiming their matches in straight sets, while the other two singles were drawn at one set all. \u00a0\u00a0The Boy\u2019s and Girl\u2019s doubles were also undecided with each team winning one set. Going into the mixed doubles the Buffalo\u2019s needed to win both matches in straight sets for a count back.\u00a0 However the Barra\u2019s could\u00a0taste the victory, claimed both matches with Franklin<\/span> and Rayner<\/span> combining to defeat Peter Politis<\/span> and Rosie Henderson<\/span> 4-1 4-1 while Nicholas Carmichael<\/span> and Grace Henderson<\/span> defeated Callum Saunders<\/span> and Stephanie Rayner<\/span> 4-3 4-1 for a four rubbers to nil victory and the first Junior Tennis League Premiership.<\/p>\n

BARRA’S<\/span> defeated BUFFALO’S<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/h5>\n

4-12-55 (4 drawn) 0-4-32<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Liam Franklin<\/span> d Oscar Ferdinands 4-0 3-0 ret
\nNicholas Carmichael drew Callum Saunders 1-4 4-2
\nRebecca Rayner<\/span> d Rosie Henderson 4-1 4-3
\nGrace Henderson drew Stephanie Rayner 4-2 1-4
\nFranklin\/Carmichael drew Politis\/Saunders 4-1 3-4
\nR.Rayner\/G.Henderson drew R.Henderson\/S.Rayner 3-4 4-1
\nFranklin\/R.Rayner<\/span> d Politis\/R.Henderson 4-1 4-1
\nCarmichael\/G.Henderson<\/span> d Saudners\/S.Rayner 4-3 4-1<\/p>\n

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Third and Fourth play-off was a closely contested encounter between the Croc\u2019s and the Frillie\u2019s.\u00a0 The Croc\u2019s had the early lead after the singles with Kenneth Prete<\/span> and Eilis Kruger<\/span> winning their respective singles. Frillie\u2019s number 2, Coen Hutt<\/span> keep them within reach with his 4-0 4-2 win over Ashley Setterfield<\/span>. Hutt<\/span> then teamed with Kyle O\u2019Donoghue-Ellis<\/span> to take the Boy\u2019s doubles and level the score. Going into the mixed doubles the score was level at 2 rubbers all; either side had the chance to win. Hutt<\/span> claimed his third win of the evening, teaming with Serena Adams<\/span> for a 4-1 4-0 win over Setterfield<\/span> and Lauren Riggall<\/span>. However, Prete<\/span> and Kruger<\/span> claimed the other mixed for the Croc\u2019s and levelling the score a three rubbers all. The count back came down to games with the Frillie\u2019s coming out on top 41 games to 40 games over the Croc\u2019s.<\/p>\n

FRILLIE’S<\/span> defeated CROC’S<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/h5>\n

3-8-41 (2 drawn) 3-8-40<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Kyle O’Donoghue-Ellis lt Kenneth Prete<\/span> 1-4 1-4
\nCoen Hutt<\/span> d Ashley Setterfield 4-0 4-2
\nJaimee Murphy lt Eilis Kruger<\/span> 0-4 1-4
\nSerena Adams drew Lauren Riggall 4-0 3-4
\nO’Donoghue-Ellis\/Hutt<\/span> d Prete\/Setterfield 4-3 4-1
\nMurphy\/Adams drew Kruger\/Riggall 4-1 1-4
\nO’Donoghue-Ellis\/Murphy lt Prete\/Kruger<\/span> 1-4 1-4
\nHutt\/Adams<\/span> d Setterfield\/Riggall 4-1 4-0<\/p>\n

Check out the Tennis NT\u00a0results page<\/a> for the full results and draws.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Grand Final of the Junior Tennis League was looming to be a great encounter between the Buffalo\u2019s, who had been on top of the ladder for the duration of the minor rounds and the Barra\u2019s, who had sat at the bottom for most of the competition. The Barra\u2019s got an early lead in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5924,"featured_media":5996,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[11,208,6,210,212],"class_list":["post-5995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-gardens-tennis","tag-jtl","tag-junior-tennis-league","tag-liam-franklin","tag-rosie-henderson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5995","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=5995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5995\/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=5995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}