Sam Groth, Dayne Kelly, John Peers, James Lemke, Olivia Rogowska\u00a0and Viktorija Rajicic are among the players who will headline Tennis Victoria\u2019s Premier League competition in 2011.<\/p>\n
Grace Park\u2019s No.1 player, James Lemke, said he was attracted to playing in the competition because of the team aspect.<\/p>\n
“It\u2019s fun to play team tennis,” said Lemke, who is playing in the competition for the first time.<\/p>\n
“There are a couple of other players from the Pro Circuit in the team as well so it should be fun.”<\/p>\n
Nominated for their respective tennis clubs, the players will compete in the five rounds plus finals competition commencing on Sunday 2 October.<\/p>\n
“It is great to see such highly ranked players nominated to play and supporting the competition,” said Chris Larkin, Open Competitions and Tournaments Manager at Tennis Victoria.<\/p>\n
In the inaugural year of competition in 2010, Liston Tennis Club won the men\u2019s title and Kooyong Lawn Tennis Club won the women\u2019s.<\/p>\n
“There have been some changes to the teams from last year, but all the clubs competing have named strong teams that feature some of Victoria\u2019s best juniors and touring players who will be in Australia at this time of the year,” said Larkin.<\/p>\n
R1<\/strong> \u2013 Sunday 2 October from 11.30 am R2 \u2013 Saturday 8 October from 11.30 am \u2013 (double header) As an added incentive for players and clubs, the top four finishing teams will be invited to take part in a National Tennis League – Victorian Division pilot in late November. More information about the National Tennis League is available at tennis.com.au\/competitions\/national-tennis-league<\/a>.<\/p>\n See the media release for a full list of players<\/a>\u00a0and the Premier League<\/a> page for more information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Sam Groth, Dayne Kelly, John Peers, James Lemke, Olivia Rogowska\u00a0and Viktorija Rajicic are among the players who will headline Tennis Victoria\u2019s Premier League competition in 2011. Grace Park\u2019s No.1 player, James Lemke, said he was attracted to playing in the competition because of the team aspect. “It\u2019s fun to play team tennis,” said Lemke, who […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5907,"featured_media":3634,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4422","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\/4422","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\/5907"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4422\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nR2<\/strong> \u2013 Saturday 8 October from 11.30 am \u2013 (double header)
\nR3<\/strong> \u2013 Sunday 9 October from 11.30 am \u2013 (double header)
\nR4<\/strong> \u2013 Sunday 16 October from 11.30 am R5 \u2013 Wednesday 19 October from 2.30 pm (afternoon\/twilight game)
\nR5<\/strong> \u2013 Wednesday 19 October from 2.30 pm (afternoon\/twilight game)
\nSemifinals<\/strong> (2 vs 3) \u2013 Sunday 23 October from 11.30 am Final \u2013 (1 vs winner of semifinals) \u2013 Sunday 6 November from 11.00 am
\nFinal<\/strong> \u2013 (1 vs winner of semifinals) \u2013 Sunday 6 November from 11.00 am<\/p>\n