{"id":19196,"date":"2018-08-31T10:37:06","date_gmt":"2018-08-31T00:37:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/?p=19196"},"modified":"2018-08-31T10:37:06","modified_gmt":"2018-08-31T00:37:06","slug":"pennant-gears-up-for-huge-finish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/news\/2018\/08\/31\/pennant-gears-up-for-huge-finish","title":{"rendered":"Pennant gears up for huge finish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tennis Victoria Pennant is set for a big conclusion with the Grade 1 men&#8217;s and women&#8217;s finals to be held at Royal South Yarra Lawn Tennis Club this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Centre Court Indoor will be aiming to claim both Grade 1 titles with the women&#8217;s team ready to defend their 2017 flag. While the Centre Court Indoor men&#8217;s team has come into the final after a tight finish against Glenburn TC (3-7-75 to 3-6-71).<\/p>\n<p>MCC Glen Iris Valley TC will be looking to spoil the party for Centre Court Indoor following a strong win over Bundoora TC (3-7-48 to 2-5-47).<\/p>\n<p>Royal South Yarra LTC will hope to capitalise on their home ground advantage when they tackle Centre Court Indoor. A comprehensive victory over Heatherdale in the semi-finals will have the home side eager to perform in front of their fans.<\/p>\n<p>The event will be open for spectators to come and watch, which will showcase some of the competition&#8217;s best players.<\/p>\n<p>Other Grades will also have the opportunity to claim titles at various destinations with Kooyong LTC, Dendy Park TC and Yallambie TC all hosting Grade finals.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2018 TENNIS VICTORIA PENNANT GRADE FINALS &#8211; SATURDAY 1 SEPTEMBER<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Royal South Yarra Tennis Club, 11 am:\n<ul>\n<li>Women\u2019s Grade 1, MCC Glen Iris Valley v Centre Court Indoor<\/li>\n<li>Men\u2019s Grade 1, Royal South Yarra v Centre Court Indoor<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Kooyong Tennis Club, 9 am:\n<ul>\n<li>Women\u2019s Grade 2, Bundoora v Essendon<\/li>\n<li>Women\u2019s Grade 3, Mt. Eliza v Knox City<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Dendy Park Tennis Club, 11 am:\n<ul>\n<li>Men\u2019s Grade 7, Maccabi No.1 v Kings Park<\/li>\n<li>Men\u2019s Grade 10, Mayfield Park v Glencairn<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Yallambie Tennis Club, 11:30 am:\n<ul>\n<li>Men\u2019s Grade 9, Yallambie No.1 v Yallambie No.2<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Due to weather delays on the opening weekend of finals, the entire competition is due to finish by next weekend.<\/p>\n<p>For further information on Tennis Victoria Pennant, including: fixtures, ladders and results, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/players\/competitions\/pennant\">CLICK HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2018 season nears conclusion with fireworks expected for Grade 1 finals<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6038,"featured_media":19198,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19196","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\/19196","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=19196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19196\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}