{"id":15357,"date":"2016-04-04T16:10:59","date_gmt":"2016-04-04T06:10:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/?p=15357"},"modified":"2016-04-05T09:29:53","modified_gmt":"2016-04-04T23:29:53","slug":"grace-park-hawthorn-and-liston-through-to-premier-league-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/news\/2016\/04\/04\/grace-park-hawthorn-and-liston-through-to-premier-league-final","title":{"rendered":"Grace Park Hawthorn and Liston through to Premier League final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After five rounds of high quality\u00a0tennis, <strong>Grace Park Hawthorn<\/strong> and <strong>Liston<\/strong> have booked themselves a finals berth when the 2016\u00a0Premier League concludes\u00a0at Glen Iris Valley Rec Club this\u00a0Saturday, 9 April at 1.00pm.<\/p>\n<p>In the men&#8217;s competition, an undefeated Grace Park has proven to be\u00a0the powerhouse team. Led by <strong>James Lemke <\/strong>and<strong> Daniel Nolan<\/strong>, the team\u00a0cemented their place on top of the ladder with a 6 rubbers to 0 victory over the Country All Stars on Sunday at Bundoora. The win followed a close match\u00a0against Kooyong\u00a0on Saturday which saw the two teams tie on 3 rubbers each, with Grace Park winning\u00a0on sets.<\/p>\n<p>The team will now face the winner of\u00a0<strong>Kooyong Lawn Tennis Club <\/strong>vs\u00a0<strong>Dingley Tennis Club<\/strong> preliminary final this Thursday night at Royal South Yarra Lawn Tennis Club at 5.00pm.<\/p>\n<p>In the women&#8217;s competition, just three points separate the top two teams of Liston and Mornington with both teams on\u00a04 wins a piece.<\/p>\n<p>However a strong showing against MCC Tennis on Saturday and Royal South Yarra on Sunday secured Liston&#8217;s finals berth.\u00a0<strong>Masa Jovanovic<\/strong> and\u00a0<strong>Monika Rajicic<\/strong>\u00a0paired to win their doubles rubber (6-1 6-0) against Royal South Yarra on Sunday before each winning their singles rubbers without dropping a set.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mornington<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>Tennis Centre<\/strong>\u00a0will\u00a0battle it out against <strong>MCC Tennis Section<\/strong> this Thursday night at 5.00pm.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Results<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Round 4 (Saturday April 2)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Men\u2019s Competition at Grace Park Hawthorn <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Country All Stars 4 def Bundoora 2<\/li>\n<li>Dingley 4 def Royal South Yarra Lawn 2<\/li>\n<li>Grace Park Hawthorn 3 (8) def Kooyong Lawn 3 (7)*<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Women\u2019s Competition at Liston<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mornington 3 (7) def Kooyong Lawn 3 (6)*<\/li>\n<li>Dendy Park 4 def Royal South Yarra Lawn 2<\/li>\n<li>Liston 5 def MCC Tennis 1<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Round 5 (Sunday April 3)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Men\u2019s Competition at Bundoora Tennis Club. <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/media\/set\/?set=a.1091983727528884.1073741878.226514340742498&amp;type=1\" target=\"_blank\">View photo gallery.<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Kooyong Lawn 6 def Royal South Yarra 0<\/li>\n<li>Bundoora 4 def Dingley 2<\/li>\n<li>Grace Park Hawthorn 6 def Country All Stars 0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Women\u2019s Competition at Kooyong Lawn<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Liston 5 def Royal South Yarra 1<\/li>\n<li>Kooyong Lawn 5 def Dendy Park 1<\/li>\n<li>Mornington 3 (7) def MCC Tennis Section 3 (6)*<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>*Team won on sets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After five rounds of high quality\u00a0tennis, Grace Park Hawthorn and Liston have booked themselves a finals berth when the 2016\u00a0Premier League concludes\u00a0at Glen Iris Valley Rec Club this\u00a0Saturday, 9 April at 1.00pm. In the men&#8217;s competition, an undefeated Grace Park has proven to be\u00a0the powerhouse team. Led by James Lemke and Daniel Nolan, the team\u00a0cemented [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5914,"featured_media":15365,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15357","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\/15357","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=15357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15357\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}