{"id":5125,"date":"2011-11-28T15:26:57","date_gmt":"2011-11-28T05:26:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/?p=5125"},"modified":"2011-11-28T15:26:57","modified_gmt":"2011-11-28T05:26:57","slug":"national-tennis-league-victorian-division-to-kick-off-tomorrow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/news\/2011\/11\/28\/national-tennis-league-victorian-division-to-kick-off-tomorrow","title":{"rendered":"National Tennis League \u2013 Victorian Division to kick off tomorrow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sally Peers, Viktorija Rajicic and James Lemke\u00a0are among the players who will take to the courts tomorrow when the National Tennis League \u2013 Victorian Division (NTL-Vic) kicks off tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>A pilot competition, the NTL-Vic will consist of four men\u2019s\u00a0and\u00a0four women\u2019s teams with\u00a0four players per team. There can be a maximum of\u00a0six players per team nominated for each tie.<\/p>\n<p>Australian Fed Cup team member Sally Peers said she is looking forward to representing Kooyong in the NTL-Vic.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI enjoy playing team tennis for Kooyong and it will be interesting to trial the different format,\u201d said Peers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m really looking forward to playing in the pilot competition. After winning the recent Premier League competition for Kooyong, the girls are keen for another title.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ties will consist of\u00a0four singles and\u00a0two doubles matches. The match formats will be\u00a0an eight\u00a0game \u2018pro\u2019 set or the best of\u00a0two sets \u2013 the first to\u00a0four games each set, with a\u00a0third set tiebreaker if required.<\/p>\n<p>The 2011 pilot NTL-Vic will consist of\u00a0three rounds plus a final (1 v 2). The dates are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Round\u00a01 &#8211; Tuesday 29 November, 2011<\/li>\n<li>Round 2 &#8211; Thursday 1 December, 2011\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Round 3 &#8211; Wednesday 7 December, 2011<\/li>\n<li>Final &#8211; Friday 9 December, 2011\u00a0at Melbourne Park<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The\u00a0two teams from NTL-Vic final held in December, will also go on to represent Victoria in a National Championships event to be held during the second week of Australian Open 2012 at Melbourne Park.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #e10073\"><strong><em>Round 1 \u2013 Tuesday 29 November<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Men\u2019s*<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Kooyong Lawn v Allied Team, matches commence at 2 pm<\/li>\n<li>Dingley v Grace Park, matches commence at 11 am<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><em>Women\u2019s*<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Kooyong Lawn v Dendy Park, matches commence at 2 pm<\/li>\n<li>Geelong Lawn v Grace Park, matches commence at 2 pm<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>* The team listed first is the home team. A full list of players can be found below.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #e10073\"><strong><em>NTL-Vic<\/em><\/strong><strong><em> \u2013 Round 1 &#8211;\u00a0Nominated Teams <\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0091d2\"><strong><em>Men\u2019s<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Kooyong Lawn<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>John Peers<\/li>\n<li>Richard Fromberg<\/li>\n<li>Jay Salter<\/li>\n<li>Andrew Whittington<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>Dingley<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>David Vukasinec<\/li>\n<li>Alan Poric<\/li>\n<li>Rob Phillips<\/li>\n<li>Matt Carroll<\/li>\n<li>Andrew Poustie<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>Grace Park<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>James Lemke<\/li>\n<li>Dane Propoggia<\/li>\n<li>Ryan Thomas<\/li>\n<li>Josh Tran<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Allied Team<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>John Hampson<\/li>\n<li>Stuart Brown<\/li>\n<li>James Sheppard<\/li>\n<li>Aaron Tran<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0091d2\"><strong><em>Women\u2019s<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>Kooyong Lawn<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Sally Peers<\/li>\n<li>Karolina Wlodarczak<\/li>\n<li>Molly Polak<\/li>\n<li>Kate Antosik<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Geelong Lawn<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Viktorija Rajicic<\/li>\n<li>Alenka Hubacek<\/li>\n<li>Brianna Bateup<\/li>\n<li>Abbie Walker<\/li>\n<li>Phillipa Tepper<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Grace Park<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Monique Adamczak<\/li>\n<li>Alison Bai<\/li>\n<li>Kristen Van Elden<\/li>\n<li>Gussie O\u2019Sullivan<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Dendy Park<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Nicolette Proctor<\/li>\n<li>Stephanie Skaras<\/li>\n<li>Jade Viccars<\/li>\n<li>Adrianna Pavlekovic<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sally Peers, Viktorija Rajicic and James Lemke\u00a0are among the players who will take to the courts tomorrow when the National Tennis League \u2013 Victorian Division (NTL-Vic) kicks off tomorrow. A pilot competition, the NTL-Vic will consist of four men\u2019s\u00a0and\u00a0four women\u2019s teams with\u00a0four players per team. There can be a maximum of\u00a0six players per team nominated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5907,"featured_media":5126,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5125","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\/5125","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=5125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5125\/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=5125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}