{"id":15395,"date":"2016-04-07T23:15:56","date_gmt":"2016-04-07T13:15:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/?p=15395"},"modified":"2016-04-07T23:15:56","modified_gmt":"2016-04-07T13:15:56","slug":"kooyong-lawn-and-mcc-tennis-through-to-tennis-victoria-premier-league-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/news\/2016\/04\/07\/kooyong-lawn-and-mcc-tennis-through-to-tennis-victoria-premier-league-final","title":{"rendered":"Kooyong Lawn and MCC Tennis through to Tennis Victoria Premier League final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/files\/2016\/04\/Premier-League-Logo-Updated.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-15396\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/files\/2016\/04\/Premier-League-Logo-Updated.jpg\" alt=\"Premier League Logo\" width=\"460\" height=\"169\" \/><\/a>MCC Tennis and Kooyong Lawn have \u00a0booked themselves a Finals berth after convincing wins against Mornington and Dingleyin the women&#8217;s and men&#8217;s Preliminary Finals respectively.<\/p>\n<p>MCC Tennis, led by rising\u00a0Victorian\u00a0Jaimee Fourlis and the experienced Genevieve Lorbergs and Bojana Bobusic, signalled to their Grand Final opponent Liston, that this will be an epic final and appear to be peaking at the right time of the season.<\/p>\n<p>Last year\u2019s runner up, Kooyong Lawn in the men\u2019s league set up a repeat of last years Final with a determined victory over the youthful Dingley outfit. Kooyong Lawn\u2019s Andrew Whittington continued his rich vein of form after recent back to back ITF Pro Tour event wins to steer them to victory despite some fierce and determined play from Dingley\u2019s unheralded youngsters in Fedja Bilic, Long Nguyen and Omar Fields. It will be an intriguing Final and Kooyong Lawn look well prepared to stop Grace Park Hawthorn from a potential three peat.<\/p>\n<p>The men\u2019s and women\u2019s Finals will both be played at Glen Iris Valley Rec TC on Saturday 9 April commencing at 1:00pm. In one of the highlights of the Tennis Victoria yearly calender there will also be the presentations of the Ace Award for the best performed player in the men\u2019s and women\u2019s leagues and also the announcement of the inaugural <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/news\/2016\/03\/04\/the-late-paul-arber-honoured-with-memorial-award\">Paul Arber Memorial Award<\/a> winning player from both the men\u2019s and women\u2019s leagues.<\/p>\n<p>Another showcase part of the day will be the ANZ Hot Shots League State Gala Day with \u00a0the next generation of tennis stars playing at the venue\u00a0standing side by side with the state\u2019s best players \u00a0throughout the afternoon on\u00a0this\u00a0prestigious day.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tennis Victoria Premier League Finals Day<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Venue:<\/strong> Glen Iris Valley Rec TC<\/p>\n<p><strong>Address:<\/strong> 260-270 High St Rd, Mt Waverley 3149<\/p>\n<p><strong>Time:<\/strong> Official opening presentations at 12:45pm, play commences at 1:00pm<\/p>\n<p><strong>Parking:<\/strong> Limited car parking is available at the club car park, however plenty of parking available in surrounding streets.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Men\u2019s Final<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Grace Park Hawthorn Club v Kooyong Lawn TC<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Women\u2019s Final<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Liston TC v MCC Tennis Section<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Preliminary Final Results from Thursday 7 April 2016<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Men\u2019s \u2013 Kooyong Lawn TC 3-8-66 def Dingley TC 0-4-53<\/p>\n<p>Women\u2019s- MCC Tennis Section 6-12-74 def Mornington TC 0-1-39<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MCC Tennis and Kooyong Lawn have \u00a0booked themselves a Finals berth after convincing wins against Mornington and Dingleyin the women&#8217;s and men&#8217;s Preliminary Finals respectively. MCC Tennis, led by rising\u00a0Victorian\u00a0Jaimee Fourlis and the experienced Genevieve Lorbergs and Bojana Bobusic, signalled to their Grand Final opponent Liston, that this will be an epic final and appear [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5595,"featured_media":15396,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15395","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\/15395","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=15395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15395\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}