Victorian Andrew Whittington has capped off a big week at the Mornington Peninisula Tennis International Pro Tour taking out the singles and men’s doubles finals.<\/p>\n
Combining with fellow Kooyong Lawn Tennis Club player Greg Jones, the pair defeated fellow Aussies Gavin Van Peperzeel and Bradley Mousley in the final 6-3 6-2.<\/p>\n
Returning to the court for the singles final, Whittington again faced Van Peperzeel taking the win again 6-2 6-3.<\/p>\n
We caught up with Whittington recently and asked him some of the lighter questions to learn more about him.<\/p>\n
Tennis Victoria: Favourite Sport other than tennis?<\/strong> If you were on a reality show would it be My Kitchen Rules, So You Think You Can Dance or Australian Idol?<\/strong> Favourite holiday destination?<\/strong> Who would you most like to play doubles with?<\/strong> iPhone or Android?<\/strong> Cats or Dogs?<\/strong> Taylor Swift or Katy Perry?<\/strong> Foo Fighters or One Direction?<\/strong> Salt and vinegar or chicken chips?<\/strong> Favourite AFL Team?<\/strong> Istagram or Twitter?<\/strong> Favourite playing surface?<\/strong> Favourite Easter Tournament?<\/strong> If you were a guest commentator, would it be on Fox Sports, E Fashion Police or the Today Show?<\/strong> Fox Sports<\/p>\n If you could interview anyone in the world who would it be?<\/strong> If you were at the zoo and could safely be up close to any animal what would you choose?<\/strong> Good luck Andrew in the second Mornington International event starting today at the Mornington Tennis Centre. To keep up to date with Pro Tour results follow @oztennisresults<\/a> on twitter. You can also follow Andrew on Instagram<\/a> or Twitter<\/a> to wish him well and keep up with his progress.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Andrew Whittington takes singles and doubles titles at Mornington Peninsula Tennis International<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5595,"featured_media":15315,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15312","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\/15312","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=15312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15312\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nAndrew Whittington: Cricket<\/p>\n
\nMy Kitchen Rules because I can whip up a mean spaghetti bolognaise or 2 minute noodles!<\/p>\n
\nDubai<\/p>\n
\nDjoker because he won\u2019t miss a return.<\/p>\n
\niPhone<\/p>\n
\nDogs<\/p>\n
\nHave you got a third option? Taylor Swift.<\/p>\n
\nFoo Fighters<\/p>\n
\nWhat brand? If it was Kettle id have to go the Honey Soy Chicken. No, I\u2019m going with Salt and Vinegar.<\/p>\n
\nEssendon, sorry I go for Williamstown VFL<\/p>\n
\nInstagram 100% (see Andrew on our instagram <\/a>page)<\/p>\n
\nFast hard court.<\/p>\n
\nSwan Hill<\/p>\n
\nI\u2019d like to interview James Hird.<\/p>\n
\nMeerkat.<\/p>\n