{"id":27255,"date":"2022-01-04T16:31:11","date_gmt":"2022-01-04T05:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/?p=27255"},"modified":"2022-01-04T16:33:59","modified_gmt":"2022-01-04T05:33:59","slug":"can-barwon-go-back-to-back-the-2022-inter-regional-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/news\/2022\/01\/04\/can-barwon-go-back-to-back-the-2022-inter-regional-preview","title":{"rendered":"Can Barwon go back to back? The 66th Inter-Regional Country Championships Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>12 months ago, Barwon Tennis Region lifted the trophy for the 65th Inter-Regional Championships in Warrnambool, ending the 4<sup>th<\/sup> straight Inter-Regional win by the Goulburn region.<\/p>\n<p>Fast forward 12 months and seven other Country Regions, including Goulburn are ready to chase down the Barwon Region as they embark on Horsham this weekend!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Teams Competing in 2022:<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2><strong>DOWNLOAD YOUR TEAM GRAPHIC HERE TO SHOW SUPPORT FOR YOUR REGION!<\/strong><\/h2>\n<!-- see gallery_shortcode() in functions.php -->\n\t\t<div class=\"gallery__container\"><ul><li id=\"27256\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span data-picture  data-title=\"Barwon\" data-alt=\"Barwon\" data-description=\"Barwon\" data-img=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/files\/2022\/01\/Barwon-768x768.jpg\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span 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alt=\"Mornington Peninsula\" \/><\/noscript>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/li><li id=\"27262\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span data-picture  data-title=\"SouthWest\" data-alt=\"SouthWest\" data-description=\"South West\" data-img=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/files\/2022\/01\/SouthWest-768x768.jpg\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span data-src=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/files\/2022\/01\/SouthWest-175x175.jpg\"><\/span><span data-src=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/files\/2022\/01\/SouthWest-350x350.jpg\" data-media=\"(min-width:768px)\"><\/span><!--[if (lt IE 9) & (!IEMobile)]><span data-src=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/files\/2022\/01\/SouthWest-175x175.jpg\"><\/span><![endif]--><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/files\/2022\/01\/SouthWest-175x175.jpg\" alt=\"South West\" \/><\/noscript>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/li><li id=\"27263\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span data-picture  data-title=\"Wimmera\" data-alt=\"Wimmera\" data-description=\"Wimmera\" data-img=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/files\/2022\/01\/Wimmera-768x768.jpg\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span data-src=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/files\/2022\/01\/Wimmera-175x175.jpg\"><\/span><span data-src=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/files\/2022\/01\/Wimmera-350x350.jpg\" data-media=\"(min-width:768px)\"><\/span><!--[if (lt IE 9) & (!IEMobile)]><span data-src=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/files\/2022\/01\/Wimmera-175x175.jpg\"><\/span><![endif]--><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/files\/2022\/01\/Wimmera-175x175.jpg\" alt=\"Wimmera\" \/><\/noscript>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/li><\/ul><\/div>\n<p><strong>Who should we be looking out for this weekend?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The strength of Barwon will be boosted by\u00a0<strong>Nicole Mullen<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 who has a UTR of 8.69 and <strong>James Brushfield<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 who has a UTR of 10.96.<\/p>\n<p>Goulburn will be looking to re-capture their form which saw them win 4 championships in a row to close the 2010s! Their campaign will be boosted by <strong>Eliza Long<\/strong>\u00a0(UTR 9.14) and <strong>David Poole<\/strong> (UTR 10.02).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Some other players to watch are Loddon Campaspe\u2019s <strong>Isabella Crossman<\/strong> (UTR 8.31), Central Highlands <strong>James O\u2019Sullivan<\/strong> (UTR 10.88) and East Gippsland\u2019s <strong>Mitchell Allman<\/strong> (UTR 10.94).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Inter Regional Country Championships start on Friday in Horsham. See all information and updated results\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/tournaments.tennis.com.au\/tournament\/A63940F9-0383-478E-B327-D8E78C45F875\">here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Good luck to all Regions participating this weekend!<\/p>\n<p><strong>66th Inter-Regional Country Championships<\/strong><strong><br \/>\nFriday January 7 \u2013 Sunday January 9<br \/>\nHorsham Lawn Tennis Club<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The 2022 Inter-Regional Country Championships are supported by Horsham Rural City Council.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>12 months ago, Barwon Tennis Region lifted the trophy for the 65th Inter-Regional Championships in Warrnambool, ending the 4th straight Inter-Regional win by the Goulburn region. Fast forward 12 months and seven other Country Regions, including Goulburn are ready to chase down the Barwon Region as they embark on Horsham this weekend! Teams Competing in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6293,"featured_media":27265,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27255","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\/27255","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\/6293"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27255\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}