{"id":17510,"date":"2017-07-13T11:55:20","date_gmt":"2017-07-13T01:55:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/?p=17510"},"modified":"2017-07-14T17:11:12","modified_gmt":"2017-07-14T07:11:12","slug":"tennis-victoria-premier-league-set-for-big-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/news\/2017\/07\/13\/tennis-victoria-premier-league-set-for-big-return","title":{"rendered":"Tennis Victoria Premier League set for big return"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The state\u2019s highest level inter-club competition,\u00a0<strong>Tennis Victoria Premier League<\/strong>,\u00a0season will <strong>commence on Saturday, 11 November<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Both the men\u2019s and women\u2019s leagues will feature five rounds with the <strong>final<\/strong> to be played on <strong>Saturday, 2 December<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Tennis Victoria competitions manager, Jeff Downes, is looking forward to welcoming star talent to the state&#8217;s elite competition.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe season schedule aims to best minimise clashes with the ITF Futures Pro Tour calendar, AMT Platinum tournaments, December Showdown and the 18\u2019s Nationals,\u201d Downes said.<\/p>\n<p>Recognising the grassroots club nature of the League and the importance of connecting the competition to the local tennis community, Tennis Victoria has extended its <strong>Community Engagement Award<\/strong> to one winning club in the men\u2019s and women\u2019s competitions also this year<\/p>\n<p>The award will see a men\u2019s and women\u2019s club <strong>rewarded with a $2,000 grant <\/strong>for being the most connected to their local tennis community throughout the competition.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is important that Tennis Victoria and our selected clubs engage their local tennis communities and we look forward to seeing what exciting initiatives they can come up with to create a real buzz at their home venue\u2019s Super Rounds.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>2017\/18 season clubs will battle for the <strong>$20,000 total\u00a0<\/strong><b>prize money<\/b>\u00a0pool.<\/p>\n<p>Following the Grace Park Hawthorn Club (men) and Liston (women) triumphs in December last year, the next Premier League season is set to be a hotly contested competition.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Team club nominations<\/strong> will <strong>close<\/strong> on <strong>Thursday, 5 October<\/strong>, with <strong>selected teams<\/strong> to be <strong>announced<\/strong> on <strong>Wednesday, 11 October<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>For further information\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/players\/competitions\/premier-league\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The state\u2019s highest level inter-club competition,\u00a0Tennis Victoria Premier League,\u00a0season will commence on Saturday, 11 November. Both the men\u2019s and women\u2019s leagues will feature five rounds with the final to be played on Saturday, 2 December. Tennis Victoria competitions manager, Jeff Downes, is looking forward to welcoming star talent to the state&#8217;s elite competition. \u201cThe season [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6038,"featured_media":17511,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17510","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\/17510","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\/6038"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17510\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}