{"id":16131,"date":"2016-09-16T09:57:52","date_gmt":"2016-09-15T23:57:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/?p=16131"},"modified":"2016-09-21T16:31:22","modified_gmt":"2016-09-21T06:31:22","slug":"2016-pennant-player-of-the-year-award-winners-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/news\/2016\/09\/16\/2016-pennant-player-of-the-year-award-winners-announced","title":{"rendered":"2016 Pennant Player of the Year Award Winners Announced"},"content":{"rendered":"

After another outstanding Pennant season, Tennis Victoria is pleased to announce the winners of the 2016 Pennant Player of the Year.<\/p>\n

Over 4000 players competed in the competition across all grades in Australia\u2019s largest inter-club competition, and in many cases the winners competed against over 200 players within their grade for the honour.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis award is a great way to recognise the outstanding season of a number of individual players,\u201d said Tennis Victoria\u2019s Competition Manager Jeff Downes.<\/p>\n

\u201cAcross all grades of Pennant, there have been a number of outstanding individuals who have played consistently well all season and this is a great reward and fitting recognition for these players.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ramona Mataruga from Hepner Place Indoor and Matthew Hicks also from Hepner Place Indoor claimed the Women\u2019s and Men\u2019s Grade 1 Pennant Player of the Year award\u2019s respectively.<\/p>\n

The Geelong Lawn Men\u2019s Masters 45+ Doubles team were crowned as the 2016 Kevin Howard Award winners as the best performing Men\u2019s Masters 45+ Doubles team.<\/p>\n

The 2016 Pennant Player of the Year Presentations will be held at the Tennis Victoria Premier League Finals Day on Sunday 11 December.<\/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\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Pennant Player of Year Award Winners<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nPlayer Name<\/strong><\/td>\nClub<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Women’s<\/u><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Grade 1<\/td>\nRamona Mataruga<\/td>\nHepner Place Indoor<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Grade 2<\/td>\nBrooke Starling<\/td>\nMCC Tennis Section<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Grade 3<\/td>\nMegan Lee<\/td>\nEssendon<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Grade 4<\/td>\nJoanna Wietrzyk<\/td>\nDingley<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Grade 5<\/td>\nSummer Jones<\/td>\nMornington<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Men’s<\/u><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Grade 1<\/td>\nMatthew Hicks<\/td>\nHepner Place Indoor<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Grade 2<\/td>\nTom Ciszewski<\/td>\nEaglemont<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Grade 3<\/td>\nVish Masand<\/td>\nEast Camberwell<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Grade 4<\/td>\nLynton Joseph<\/td>\nEast Coburg<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Grade 5<\/td>\nJames Tsorlinis<\/td>\nGracedale Park<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Grade 6<\/td>\nLloyd Havlik<\/td>\nRoyal South Yarra Lawn<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Grade 7<\/td>\nScott McIvor<\/td>\nEltham<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Grade 8<\/td>\nChristian Thurmer<\/td>\nAshburton Uniting<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Grade 9<\/td>\nNicholas Young<\/td>\nMonash University<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Grade 10<\/td>\nBrodie McGeachy<\/td>\nNorth Ringwood<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Men’s Open Doubles<\/u><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Grade 1<\/td>\nCameron Maccoll<\/td>\nSt Mary’s Greensborough<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Grade 2<\/td>\nBenn Heyme<\/td>\nMitcham<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
* Joint winners<\/td>\nAlex Ubavin<\/td>\nMitcham<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Grade 3<\/td>\nPhil Ryan<\/td>\nMacleod<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Masters 45+ Doubles <\/u><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Grade 1<\/td>\nRobert Black<\/td>\nLegend Park<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Grade 2<\/td>\nRobert Nicholls<\/td>\nGeelong Lawn<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Grade 3<\/td>\nAndrew Simpson<\/td>\nHawthorn<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

To view the Winners and Runners Up List and total points,\u00a0click here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After another outstanding Pennant season, Tennis Victoria is pleased to announce the winners of the 2016 Pennant Player of the Year. Over 4000 players competed in the competition across all grades in Australia\u2019s largest inter-club competition, and in many cases the winners competed against over 200 players within their grade for the honour. \u201cThis award […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5914,"featured_media":16135,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16131","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\/16131","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=16131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16131\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}