{"id":9584,"date":"2020-11-30T12:00:20","date_gmt":"2020-11-30T01:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/tas\/?p=9584"},"modified":"2020-11-30T12:11:16","modified_gmt":"2020-11-30T01:11:16","slug":"tennis-north-claims-challenge-day-over-north-west-tennis-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/tas\/news\/2020\/11\/30\/tennis-north-claims-challenge-day-over-north-west-tennis-league","title":{"rendered":"Tennis North claims Challenge over North West Tennis League"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The sun was out for the Tennis North vs North West Tennis League Challenge<\/strong> in Launceston on Saturday 21 October, with almost 100 competitors from a wide range of clubs in the two regions taking to the courts at Tennis World Launceston<\/strong> and the Newstead Tennis and Squash Centre<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Consisting\nof five divisions, the event was taken out by Tennis North, who claimed the\nA-Grade, Ladies and Junior divisions respectively to record a 3-2 win in front\nof strong crowds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

North West Tennis League committee member Shaun Summers<\/strong> hailed the Challenge as a success, highlighting the strong support the day received from players, volunteers and families.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe\nweather was magnificent and everyone had a good day,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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NWTL’s Anna Peake returns serve \/ pic: Paul Scrambler<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

\u201cPlayers have been ringing up and saying how much they enjoyed playing competitive tennis against players they\u2019d never faced before.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tennis North President Craig Boyce<\/strong> echoed Summers\u2019 sentiment, and is optimistic of a similar event including players from the Hobart region together in the near future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe\nfeedback I\u2019ve received from players in all divisions has been very positive,\nand there was a great buzz around both venues, culminating in the social\nbarbeque,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe match\nbetween Ben Barnett and Sam Whitehead was as good as any match I\u2019ve seen in\nTasmania for a long time.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe\u2019re hoping for a similar day involving players from the South of the state this summer.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Tennis North’s Ben Barnett performed strongly \/ pic: Paul Scrambler
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Standout\nplayers from each division on the day were voted on by opposing team captains,\nand were as follows:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

TENNIS NORTH<\/strong>
A-GRADE: Jake Elmer
A-RESERVE: Dave Beattie
LADIES: Ali Lapham
FIFTY-PLUS Mark Munnings
JUNIORS: Arwen Koesmapahlawan<\/p>\n\n\n\n

NORTH WEST TENNIS LEAGUE<\/strong>
A-GRADE: Sam Whitehead
A-RESERVE: Riley Barnard
LADIES: Anna Peake
FIFTY-PLUS: Chris Chandler
JUNIORS: Alex Martin<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Strong crowds were on hand to watch five divisions battle it out in Launceston on 21 November<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6260,"featured_media":9587,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/tas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/tas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/tas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/tas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6260"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/tas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/tas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9584\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/tas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/tas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/tas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/tas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}