Tennis Victoria is pleased to announce the selected clubs for the upcoming 2015 Tennis Victoria Premier League season. Commencing on Saturday 14 March and concluding on Sunday 19 April, the season will feature\u00a0five rounds, semi finals and\u00a0finals.<\/p>\n
Clubs will compete for the the $5000 winners cheque and $2000 runners up cheque in both the men\u2019s and women\u2019s leagues, an increase in prize money from 2014.<\/p>\n
The league will feature a quality field of players with ITF Pro Tour level players Dane Propoggia, Andrew Whittington, Rubin Statham and former Davis Cup player Peter Luczak headlining the men\u2019s competition. The women\u2019s draw will see Viktorija Rajicic, Alison Bai, Destanee Aiava and Sally Peers highlighting the standard of\u00a0Premier League\u00a0in Victoria.<\/p>\n
Tennis Victoria\u2019s Competitions Manager Jeff Downes is excited by the competition ahead \u201cthe schedule has been specifically designed to\u00a0avoid clashes with the ITF Pro Tour and AMT Platinum\u2019s to attract higher level players. The quality of players assembling is promising for the competition and local tennis communities. It is\u00a0one of the most prestigious months on the Tennis Victoria calendar\u201d.<\/p>\n
Grace Park has returned to defend their title in the Men’s competition, and the MCC Tennis Section are hoping to\u00a0go\u00a0one better in 2015 after a narrow loss to Kooyong Lawn Tennis Club in the 2014 women’s final.<\/p>\n
View<\/a> all clubs selected to compete, the super round fixture and team\u00a0listings\u00a0on the Premier League<\/a> website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Tennis Victoria is pleased to announce the selected clubs for the upcoming 2015 Tennis Victoria Premier League season. Commencing on Saturday 14 March and concluding on Sunday 19 April, the season will feature\u00a0five rounds, semi finals and\u00a0finals. Clubs will compete for the the $5000 winners cheque and $2000 runners up cheque in both the men\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5907,"featured_media":12030,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5907"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13505\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}