{"id":14749,"date":"2015-12-14T12:14:53","date_gmt":"2015-12-14T01:14:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/?p=14749"},"modified":"2015-12-14T12:14:53","modified_gmt":"2015-12-14T01:14:53","slug":"plenty-and-east-malvern-tennis-clubs-win-the-atl-fastest-serve-promotion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/news\/2015\/12\/14\/plenty-and-east-malvern-tennis-clubs-win-the-atl-fastest-serve-promotion","title":{"rendered":"Plenty and East Malvern Tennis Club&#8217;s win the ATL Fastest Serve Promotion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Plenty and East Malvern Tennis Club&#8217;s have won themselves $500 Club Development Voucher as part of the recent Asian Pacific Tennis League\u00a0Fastest Serve Promotion.<\/p>\n<p>As the state&#8217;s top players warmed up for the ATL\u00a0South Conference final, a select few stepped up to fire off the fastest serve in the hope of winning their allocated Victorian\u00a0club much needed funds.<\/p>\n<p>150 competing Pennant season clubs were placed into a barrel for the opportunity to win a prize, with each of the 8 competing teams nominating\u00a0one player to select a Pennant club from the raffle and then unleash their two fastest serves with a radar gun placed on court and lines umpires in place.<\/p>\n<p>In\u00a0the men\u2019s fastest serve promotion, the Kooyong Classics&#8217; Greg Jones served a thrilling 193km\/h thunderbolt for his selected club <strong>Plenty TC,<\/strong> to secure\u00a0them the $500 voucher.<\/p>\n<p>For the women\u2019s fastest serve promotion, the South Australian Prospect Flames&#8217; Olivia Ley was the winner, with her 158 km\/h serve enough for her selected club East Malvern TC to also win the prize.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPennant is Australia\u2019s largest inter-club competition with 150 clubs playing in 2015 and over 16,000 individual rubbers played across winter, highlighting the enormity of our great competition,&#8221; said\u00a0Tennis Victoria\u2019s Competitions Manager Jeff Downes.\u00a0&#8220;This promotion was a great way to align the Pennant clubs and competition to this high level national league. It was great to see so many club pennant secretaries at the day attending as VIP guests to watch the promotion and some world class tennis.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Men\u2019s Fastest Serve Promotion Selected Clubs from Raffle and Winners<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Winner- Plenty \u00a0TC \u2013 Greg Jones (Kooyong Classics)<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Maidstone TC- Alex Evans (Western Wildlings)<\/li>\n<li>Royal South Yarra Lawn TC- Jeremy Beale (Royal South Yarras)<\/li>\n<li>Tennis Seniors Victoria \u2013 Darren Plokinhorne (NETA Knights)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Women\u2019s Fastest Serve Promotion Selected Clubs from Raffle and Winners<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Winner- East Malvern TC- Olivia Ley (Prospect Flames)<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Coburg TC- Karolina Wlodarczak (Royal South Yarras)<\/li>\n<li>Mayfield Park TC- Eliza Long (MCC Stars)<\/li>\n<li>Overport Park \u2013 Anija Dokic (Western Wildlings)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plenty and East Malvern Tennis Club&#8217;s have won themselves $500 Club Development Voucher as part of the recent Asian Pacific Tennis League\u00a0Fastest Serve Promotion. As the state&#8217;s top players warmed up for the ATL\u00a0South Conference final, a select few stepped up to fire off the fastest serve in the hope of winning their allocated Victorian\u00a0club [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5914,"featured_media":14754,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14749","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\/14749","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\/5914"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14749\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}