{"id":15066,"date":"2016-02-17T15:01:30","date_gmt":"2016-02-17T04:01:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/?p=15066"},"modified":"2016-02-19T08:46:30","modified_gmt":"2016-02-18T21:46:30","slug":"tandara-and-the-lecontes-take-out-vcta-country-week-titles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/news\/2016\/02\/17\/tandara-and-the-lecontes-take-out-vcta-country-week-titles","title":{"rendered":"Tandara and The Lecontes take out VCTA Country Week titles"},"content":{"rendered":"

The greatest community sporting event has come to a close with the culmination of the VCTA Country Week 2016 event in Wodonga and Albury on Friday.<\/p>\n

191 teams comprising 1500 players competed in the event across 23 grades using 90 permanent and temporary grass courts. The stories of the week of tennis, fun, friendships and competition will be remembered for years to come. View photo album<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Pat Flynn (Wangaratta) played in his 53rd<\/sup> Country Week having competed at every event, excluding two, since 1962. He missed one due to a dust storm in Melbourne and another that was hosted in Benalla that at the time he and his teammates thought was too close to home.<\/p>\n

The Sunbury Sippers, comprising players from three generations with mum June playing with her daughter Jodie and Jodie\u2019s daughter Maddie, won their first Country Week title in the C5 ladies division. To celebrate they emulated Jim Courier by jumping in the river.<\/p>\n

The Ballarat Bilbys, with an average team age of 77, are looking forward to next year\u2019s event in Yarrawonga when they will celebrate their 20th<\/sup> anniversary of attending.<\/p>\n

The Lecontes and Tandara took out the A Grade sections with both matches going down to the wire. Going into the final set, Mud Island only needed four games to win. At two all they only needed another two but The Lecontes weren\u2019t backing down going on to win the set 8-2 and the title overall.<\/p>\n

The results from all finals were as follows:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Men\u2019s A Grade<\/td>\nThe Lecontes\u00a0def\u00a0Mud Island<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Women\u2019s A Grade<\/td>\nTandara\u00a0def\u00a0Swan Hill Legionaire\u2019s<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Men\u2019s B1 Special<\/td>\nPhillip Island\u00a0def\u00a0Tatura Longhorns<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Men\u2019s B1<\/td>\nAlbury Sharks\u00a0def\u00a0Wangaratta Green<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Women\u2019s B1 Special<\/td>\nAlbury \u2013 Wangaratta\u00a0def\u00a0Shepparton Sistas<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Women\u2019s B1<\/td>\nMt Prospect Firecrackers\u00a0def\u00a0Mt Prospect Ange\u2019s Angels<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Men\u2019s B2 Special<\/td>\nSpring Gully Bulls\u00a0def\u00a0Cobram Tigers<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Women\u2019s B2 Special<\/td>\nRochester \u2013 LBU Girls\u00a0def\u00a0Phillip Island Aces<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Men\u2019s B2<\/td>\nEuroa Green\u00a0def\u00a0Wangaratta F Troop<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Women\u2019s B2<\/td>\nInveloch\u00a0def\u00a0Gippy Fillies<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Men\u2019s B3<\/td>\nPyramid Hill\u00a0def\u00a0Mt Prospect Hackers<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Women\u2019s B3<\/td>\nBuninyong\u00a0def\u00a0Rochester Revellers<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Women\u2019s C1 Special<\/td>\nGippy Guns\u00a0def\u00a0Euroa Purple<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Men\u2019s C1<\/td>\nJindera Falcons\u00a0def\u00a0Hay Wanderers<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Women\u2019s C1<\/td>\nRushy Gippers\u00a0def\u00a0BTA Panthers<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Women\u2019s C2 Special<\/td>\nMud Island\u00a0def\u00a0Buninyong<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Men\u2019s C2<\/td>\nRiverside\u00a0def\u00a0Wodonga Wombats<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Women\u2019s C2<\/td>\nBacchus Marsh Ballerinas\u00a0def\u00a0Wonthaggi<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Women\u2019s C3 Special<\/td>\nBacchus Marsh Stayers\u00a0def\u00a0Shepparton Sapphires<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Men\u2019s C3<\/td>\nEuroa Purple\u00a0def\u00a0Castlemaine Bootleggers<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Women\u2019s C3<\/td>\nKilmore Golden Girls\u00a0def\u00a0Bacchus Marsh Smokin Aces<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Women\u2019s C4<\/td>\nSouth Gisbourne Bubbles\u00a0def\u00a0South Gisbourne Sisterhood<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Women\u2019s C5<\/td>\nSunbury Sippers\u00a0def\u00a0Korumburra Burratons<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

VCTA Country Week 2016 is over for another year. What a week it was!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5595,"featured_media":15067,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15066","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\/15066","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=15066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15066\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}