{"id":33240,"date":"2025-03-07T04:00:49","date_gmt":"2025-03-06T17:30:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/?p=33240"},"modified":"2025-03-07T04:00:49","modified_gmt":"2025-03-06T17:30:49","slug":"memorial-drive-and-peake-gardens-riverside-claim-2024-25-tennis-sa-state-league-premierships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/news\/2025\/03\/07\/memorial-drive-and-peake-gardens-riverside-claim-2024-25-tennis-sa-state-league-premierships","title":{"rendered":"Memorial Drive and Peake Gardens Riverside Claim 2024-25 Tennis SA State League Premierships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-33242\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/files\/2025\/03\/PMR58710-700x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"628\" height=\"404\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/files\/2025\/03\/PMR58710-700x450.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/files\/2025\/03\/PMR58710-200x128.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 628px) 100vw, 628px\" \/>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Peake Gardens Riverside Tennis Club<\/strong>\u00a0claimed their third consecutive men\u2019s State League title with <strong>Memorial Drive Tennis Club <\/strong>claiming their first in the women\u2019s at the<strong>\u00a0Tennis SA State League<\/strong>\u00a0grand finals took place at\u00a0<strong>The Drive<\/strong>\u00a0last weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Riverside dominated in singles, with key wins taking three of four singles rubbers. In doubles, an incomplete first match ended in a draw. While in the second <strong>Riverside\u2019s <\/strong>pair edged out <strong>Trinity Titans<\/strong> 6-3, 5-7, 6-10<\/p>\n<p>While in the women\u2019s field <strong>Memorial <\/strong><strong>Drive <\/strong>showed their strength early, winning all four singles rubbers with dominant performances. Seacliff fought back in the third and fourth singles matches, but <strong>Memorial Drive<\/strong> sealed the win with commanding doubles performances.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tennis SA Head of Tournaments and Competitions, Dylan Hicks, expressed his excitement in congratulating the winning teams.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are incredibly proud to celebrate our 2024-25 Tennis SA State League champions, Peake Gardens Riverside and The Drive,&#8221; Hicks said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Peake Gardens Riverside\u2019s thrilling victory marks their third consecutive State League title, edging out Trinity Gardens in a nail-biting final. The energy from the crowd was electric, pushing the players to new heights. Meanwhile, The Drive\u2019s triumph was a story of resilience\u2014after falling short in the Grand Final for the past two seasons, they defied the odds, charging from third place on the ladder to claim the title.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Tennis SA extends its gratitude to all clubs, players, officials, and volunteers who contributed to another fantastic State League season. We look forward to seeing everyone back next year.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-33244\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/files\/2025\/03\/PMR58930-700x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"670\" height=\"431\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/files\/2025\/03\/PMR58930-700x450.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/files\/2025\/03\/PMR58930-200x128.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 670px) 100vw, 670px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Tennis SA State Leage Women<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Drive State League 4 &#8211; 9 &#8211; 64 def Phillips Electricians Seacliff 2 &#8211; 5 \u2013 48<\/p>\n<p>S1 &#8211; Kristina Tai def Olivia Collins 6-3 6-0;<\/p>\n<p>S2 &#8211; Rina Fujiwara def Dayna Harrison 6-1 6-1;<\/p>\n<p>S3 &#8211; Olivia Giotis def by Eliza Gauvin 2-6 2-6;<\/p>\n<p>S4 &#8211; Vanessa Cozamanis def by Kate Brzostek 6-4 4-6 1-6;<\/p>\n<p>D1 &#8211; Kristina Tai\/RINA FUJIWARA def Olivia Collins\/Dayna Harrison 6-2 6-1;<\/p>\n<p>D2 &#8211; Olivia Giotis\/Nanami Ottewill def Heidi Evans\/Eliza Gauvin 5-7 7-5 10-2;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-33246\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/files\/2025\/03\/PMR58714-700x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"677\" height=\"435\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/files\/2025\/03\/PMR58714-700x450.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/files\/2025\/03\/PMR58714-360x230.jpg 360w, https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/files\/2025\/03\/PMR58714-200x128.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 677px) 100vw, 677px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Tennis SA State League men<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Copyworld Toshiba Trinity Titans 1 &#8211; 6 &#8211; 60 def by Peake Gardens Riverside Men\u2019s State League 4 &#8211; 8 &#8211; 67<\/p>\n<p>S1 &#8211; Dale Nixon def by Stefan Bianchet 5-7 6-3 4-6;<\/p>\n<p>S2 &#8211; Michael Smith def Bradley Mousley 6-2 6-2;<\/p>\n<p>S3 &#8211; Charlie Nicholas def by Ken Cavrak 3-6 6-2 0-6;<\/p>\n<p>S4 &#8211; Andrew Tavella def by William Clifford 1-6 3-6;<\/p>\n<p>D1 &#8211; Dale Nixon\/Oliver Carroll drew Stefan Bianchet\/Luke Sebastiani Incomplete;<\/p>\n<p>D2 &#8211; Charlie Nicholas\/Michael Smith def by Bradley Mousley\/Daniel Hobart 6-3 5-7 6-10;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Peake Gardens Riverside Tennis Club\u00a0claimed their third consecutive men\u2019s State League title with Memorial Drive Tennis Club claiming their first in the women\u2019s at the\u00a0Tennis SA State League\u00a0grand finals took place at\u00a0The Drive\u00a0last weekend. Riverside dominated in singles, with key wins taking three of four singles rubbers. In doubles, an incomplete first match ended [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6294,"featured_media":33243,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33240","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\/33240","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\/6294"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33240\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}