{"id":17711,"date":"2017-08-31T17:23:07","date_gmt":"2017-08-31T07:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/?p=17711"},"modified":"2017-08-31T17:23:07","modified_gmt":"2017-08-31T07:23:07","slug":"tennis-victoria-pennant-nears-conclusion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/news\/2017\/08\/31\/tennis-victoria-pennant-nears-conclusion","title":{"rendered":"Tennis Victoria Pennant nears conclusion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 2017 Tennis Victoria Pennant season is nearing conclusion as most Grades see Premiers crowned.<\/p>\n<p>Dendy Park Tennis Club played host to a rain interrupted Grade 1 Grand Final two weeks ago as friends and families braved the initial dubious conditions to witness a full schedule of competition.<\/p>\n<p>Centre Court Indoor was crowned Grade 1 Women\u2019s champions with a four-rubbers-to-one victory over Bundoora Tennis Club. Kooyong Lawn Tennis Club took out the top men\u2019s grade as they emerged with a five-rubbers-to-two win over Glenburn Tennis Club.<\/p>\n<p>The Centre Court Indoor team made up of: Ramona Mataruga, Carolyn Mcgann, Olivia Symons, Kellie Brunger, Jenelle Findlay and Emma Thompson claimed the win following an impressive display.<\/p>\n<p>After splitting the opening doubles rubbers, the Kooyong team of: Greg Jones, David Bidmeade, Jeremy Taylor and Joshua Charlton saluted with a hard-fought win.<\/p>\n<p>Kooyong\u2019s Jeremy Taylor was thrilled with the team\u2019s effort and pleased his team was able to grind out the win.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt turned out to be extremely enjoyable with the Grand Final being very closely contested,\u201d Taylor said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith all four singles matches going down to the wire and being decided in the third set, it was great to be a part of.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCongratulations to Glenburn for an awesome season and thank you for an outstanding final \u2013 played in good spirit,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Other Tennis Victoria Pennant Grades were decided with the following results confirmed:<\/p>\n<p><strong>GRADE TWO (men)<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Heatherdale Tennis Club def Pakenham Regional Tennis Centre<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>GRADE TWO (women)<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Kooyong Lawn Tennis Club def Hawthorn Tennis Club<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>GRADE THREE (women)<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>MCC Glen Iris Valley Tennis Club def Centre Court Indoor<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>GRADE NINE (men)<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Hawthorn Tennis Club def Holy Saviour Tennis Club<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>GRADE TEN (men)<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Taylors Lakes Tennis Club def Langwarrin Tennis Club<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>With plenty of finals still to be played this coming weekend, the 2017 Tennis Victoria Pennant season is set for an action-packed finish.<\/p>\n<p>Following the conclusion of Tennis Victoria Pennant for another season the focus then turns to the 2017 Tennis Victoria Premier League season.<\/p>\n<p>Premier League will commence on Saturday 11 November with the men\u2019s and women\u2019s finals to be played on Saturday 2 December.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2017 Tennis Victoria Pennant season is nearing conclusion as most Grades see Premiers crowned<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6038,"featured_media":17714,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17711","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\/17711","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=17711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17711\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}