{"id":14618,"date":"2018-03-05T09:07:21","date_gmt":"2018-03-04T22:37:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/?p=14618"},"modified":"2018-03-05T09:07:21","modified_gmt":"2018-03-04T22:37:21","slug":"marc-polmans-takes-home-the-renmark-paringa-council-mens-tennis-international-crown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/news\/2018\/03\/05\/marc-polmans-takes-home-the-renmark-paringa-council-mens-tennis-international-crown","title":{"rendered":"Marc Polmans takes home the Renmark Paringa Council Men\u2019s Tennis International crown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Marc Polmans<\/strong> (Vic) is the <strong>Renmark Paringa Council Men\u2019s Tennis International<\/strong> champion, after taking out the title in Renmark on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Polmans defeated <strong>Luke Saville<\/strong> (Cobdogla, SA) 6-1 6-4 to win the event in its first year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think I played all around a good match. Luke came out of the blocks pretty well he broke me first game. I but was just able to hang in that first set and try to get more and more confident. I think overall it was really clean match and we both were playing some pretty good tennis out there,\u201d said Polmans following his match.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe town, the courts, everyone has been pretty involved in the tournament. It was a Futures tournament run really well I thought and hopefully next year I can come back and play again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This is Polmans\u2019 second singles title for 2018, having won the Launceston ATP Challenger in February, and his seventh career ITF Futures title.<\/p>\n<p>The doubles draw has also come to a conclusion with the final played late on Friday afternoon. The unseeded pairing of <strong>Jeremy Beale<\/strong> (Vic) and<strong> Thomas Fancutt<\/strong> (Qld) took the first set 6-3, before <strong>Dayne Kelly <\/strong>(Vic) and <strong>Gavin Van Peperzeel<\/strong> (Qld) took the second 7-6(5) to level it. Beale and Fancutt were crowned the champions, taking the match tiebreak 10-7.<\/p>\n<p>It was a fitting finale for the week-long event which gave local tennis fans the opportunity to get up close to some of the world\u2019s best players as they competed for US$25,000 in prize money and valuable world ranking points.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marc Polmans (Vic) is the Renmark Paringa Council Men\u2019s Tennis International champion, after taking out the title in Renmark on Sunday. Polmans defeated Luke Saville (Cobdogla, SA) 6-1 6-4 to win the event in its first year. \u201cI think I played all around a good match. Luke came out of the blocks pretty well he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5736,"featured_media":14620,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5736"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14618\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}