{"id":15572,"date":"2016-04-29T14:57:45","date_gmt":"2016-04-29T04:57:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/?p=15572"},"modified":"2016-04-29T14:57:45","modified_gmt":"2016-04-29T04:57:45","slug":"133rd-tennis-victoria-pennant-season-begins-this-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/news\/2016\/04\/29\/133rd-tennis-victoria-pennant-season-begins-this-weekend","title":{"rendered":"133rd Tennis Victoria Pennant season begins this weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend will see thousands of tennis enthusiasts jump back on court as the <strong>133rd Tennis Victoria Pennant<\/strong> season gets underway.<\/p>\n<p>In 2016, 140 clubs will compete, involving over 4,000 players and an incredible 15,000+ rubbers played at clubs and centres across the greater Melbourne area.<\/p>\n<p>As the longest running and largest interclub competition in Australia, Tennis Victoria Pennant caters to a wide range of playing formats, including the traditional singles and doubles formats, Men\u2019s Open Doubles and the Men\u2019s Masters 45+ Doubles.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe tried and tested format of Tennis Victoria\u2019s Pennant continues to ensure that playing competitive tennis is a lifelong pursuit,\u201d said Tennis Victoria\u2019s Executive Manager \u2013 Tennis Operations Nick Hinneberg.<\/p>\n<p>Returning to the competition for his 43rd year is Grace Park Hawthorn\u2019s <strong>Terry Stone<\/strong>. Stone is a stalwart of Tennis Victoria\u2019s Pennant, regularly promoting the competition to junior players and in 2015 captained the team who were awarded the Kevin Howard Award for best performing Men\u2019s Masters 45+ Doubles outfit.<\/p>\n<p>Beginning on April 30, the season is played over 14 weeks culminating in a bumper few weekends of finals in September.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would like to thank participating clubs, administrators, volunteers, players, parents and officials for their on-going support of Tennis Victoria\u2019s Pennant, and wish everyone the best of luck for an enjoyable and successful 2016 Pennant season,\u201d said Hinneberg.<\/p>\n<p>To view 2016 Pennant results and fixtures head to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/players\/competitions\/pennant\">Tennis Victoria website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Players can download the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/files\/2016\/04\/Final-Tennis_Pennant-Handbook_2016.pdf\">Tennis Victoria Pennant Handbook here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend will see thousands of tennis enthusiasts jump back on court as the 133rd Tennis Victoria Pennant season gets underway. In 2016, 140 clubs will compete, involving over 4,000 players and an incredible 15,000+ rubbers played at clubs and centres across the greater Melbourne area. As the longest running and largest interclub competition in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5914,"featured_media":15574,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15572","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\/15572","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=15572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15572\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}