{"id":14916,"date":"2016-01-26T15:54:42","date_gmt":"2016-01-26T04:54:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/?p=14916"},"modified":"2016-01-26T15:54:42","modified_gmt":"2016-01-26T04:54:42","slug":"victorians-march-through-to-atl-playoff-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/news\/2016\/01\/26\/victorians-march-through-to-atl-playoff-finals","title":{"rendered":"Victorians march through to ATL Playoff finals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Of the four Victorian teams in semifinal action today at the Asia-Pacific Tennis League Playoffs, three have progressed through to the final.<\/p>\n<p>Men&#8217;s Final:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kooyong Classics<\/strong> v Tennis Brisbane Chargers<\/p>\n<p>Women&#8217;s Final:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Royal South Yarras<\/strong> v <strong>MCC Stars<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Royal South Yarras were too strong for the Brisbane Sharks winning 3-1 in the singles then taking both doubles matches to win 5-1. The MCC Stars had a tougher fight on their hands eventually defeating Japans Shimazdu by 2 sets (3 rubbers each).<\/p>\n<p>The Kooyong Classics fought hard against the New Zealand Kauris winning 3-1 in the singles. Andrew Whittington and Marc Polmans then combined to take the 4th rubber in the doubles leading the Classics to a 4-2 win. They will meet the Tennis Brisbane Chargers who were too strong for the Royal South Yarras winning the singles 4-0. With a team consisting of Ben Mitchell, Maverick Banes and Gavin VanPeperzeel and John Millman likely to play the final, the Classics have a very tough battle on their hands.<\/p>\n<p>So can Victoria win the Women&#8217;s and Men&#8217;s ATL Playoff? Join the conversation by following us on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/tennisvic\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/tennis_vic\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.instagram.com\/tennisvic\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram<\/a> #ATLTennis<\/p>\n<p>The Finals commence at 5pm on courts 10-15 at Melbourne Park. Entry is with a ground pass ticket purchased from <a href=\"http:\/\/premier.ticketek.com.au\/shows\/show.aspx?sh=AOPENGP16&amp;view=AO\" target=\"_blank\">Ticketek<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Live stream and live scores are available at <a href=\"http:\/\/atl.tennis.com.au\" target=\"_blank\">atl.tennis.com.au<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Of the four Victorian teams in semifinal action today at the Asia-Pacific Tennis League Playoffs, three have progressed through to the final. Men&#8217;s Final: Kooyong Classics v Tennis Brisbane Chargers Women&#8217;s Final: Royal South Yarras v MCC Stars The Royal South Yarras were too strong for the Brisbane Sharks winning 3-1 in the singles then [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5595,"featured_media":14917,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14916","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\/14916","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\/5595"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14916\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}