{"id":17656,"date":"2017-08-09T17:50:00","date_gmt":"2017-08-09T07:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/?p=17656"},"modified":"2017-08-09T17:50:00","modified_gmt":"2017-08-09T07:50:00","slug":"pennant-grade-finals-schedule-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/news\/2017\/08\/09\/pennant-grade-finals-schedule-released","title":{"rendered":"Pennant Grade Finals schedule released"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After a pulsating weekend of Sectional Finals, this weekend will see the winning Sectional Finals teams advance to the next stage of the Grade Finals series.<\/p>\n<p>Tennis Victoria has finalised the rankings of the Sectional Final winners in each Grade and the 2017 Tennis Victoria Grade Finals series will begin this Saturday across the men\u2019s and women\u2019s competition categories.<\/p>\n<p>The higher advancing team within a Section is automatically allocated a \u2018rank\u2019 and a home final in the first week. The other lower finishing Sectional Finals winner from the Section are placed on the opposite side of the draw.<\/p>\n<p>The Grade Finals series will be played throughout August with the advancing teams facing knockout finals each weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Tennis Victoria\u2019s Competitions Manager, Jeff Downes, is looking forward to the next month of tennis action.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe month of August is one of the real highlights of Tennis Victoria\u2019s yearly calendar with our competition\u2019s coveted Grade Final series,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith the scheduling of our Grand Finals, we do our best to group as many at one venue to ensure a real vibrant finals atmosphere and we look forward, with great anticipation, to what lies ahead over the next few weekends as clubs chase that prestigious pennant flag.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To view this weekend\u2019s schedule of Grade Finals matches, click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/doc\/pgfs17w2\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>To view the Grade Finals Draws, click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/doc\/gfs17draw\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>All matches can be viewed in Match Centre, click <a href=\"http:\/\/leagues.tennis.com.au\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tennis Victoria has released the schedule for this weekend&#8217;s Pennant Grade Finals series<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6038,"featured_media":17662,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17656","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\/17656","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=17656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17656\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}