{"id":18164,"date":"2017-12-07T17:00:09","date_gmt":"2017-12-07T06:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/?p=18164"},"modified":"2017-12-07T17:01:20","modified_gmt":"2017-12-07T06:01:20","slug":"tennis-victoria-premier-league-awards-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/news\/2017\/12\/07\/tennis-victoria-premier-league-awards-announced","title":{"rendered":"Tennis Victoria Premier League awards announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tennis Victoria Premier League has concluded for 2017 and although the Grand Final was unable to be played, it hasn\u2019t put a dampener on what was an extremely enthralling season.<\/p>\n<p>The teams that finished on top of their respective ladders walked away with not just a share in $20,000 prize money but the all-important premier\u2019s flag.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Liston Tennis Club<\/strong> went back-to-back on the women\u2019s side and <strong>MCC Glen Iris Valley Tennis Club<\/strong> was able to secure the men\u2019s title.<\/p>\n<p>The Paul Arber Memorial Award \u2013\u00a0named in honour of the late Paul Arber, a well-respected member of the Victorian Tennis community who passed away in 2013 \u2013 has been decided. <strong>Kimberly Birrell (Liston)<\/strong> and <strong>Aaron Addison (MCC Glen Iris Valley)<\/strong> claimed the awards, which is regarded as one of the most prestigious awards in Victorian tennis.<\/p>\n<p>The Ace Award, which is presented to the best performed player(s) across the home and away season, have been won by <strong>Aaron Addison (MCC Glen Iris Valley)<\/strong> on the men\u2019s side and jointly won on the women\u2019s side by <strong>Jaimee Fourlis (MCC Glen Iris Valley)<\/strong> and <strong>Jess Moore (MCC Glen Iris Valley)<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, clubs put on impressive spectacles both on and off the court throughout the 2017 Tennis Victoria Premier League season. This sparked the need to reward clubs that hosted a round which engaged their community in a positive way. This year, Community Engagement Awards were available for both the women\u2019s and men\u2019s competitions.<\/p>\n<p>The Community Engagement Award winners were <strong>Liston Tennis Club (women)<\/strong> for a stellar opening round which was received very well by community. <strong>Bundoora Tennis Club (men)<\/strong> was a standout on the men\u2019s side and was also awarded the Community Engagement Award for the range of activities available during their particular round.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations are extended to all winners and we hope to see you again for Tennis Victoria Premier League in 2018!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Season highlights | Tennis Victoria Premier League\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xoyQ8MHhwKE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Awards have been announced for the 2017 Tennis Victoria Premier League season<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6038,"featured_media":17542,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18164","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\/18164","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=18164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18164\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}