{"id":5656,"date":"2012-02-17T16:30:15","date_gmt":"2012-02-17T06:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/?p=5656"},"modified":"2012-02-17T16:30:15","modified_gmt":"2012-02-17T06:30:15","slug":"new-records-set-as-country-week-declared-a-smash-hit-for-swan-hill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/news\/2012\/02\/17\/new-records-set-as-country-week-declared-a-smash-hit-for-swan-hill","title":{"rendered":"New records set as Country Week declared a smash hit for Swan Hill"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tandara\u2019s women\u2019s A grade team has set a new record, winning their sixth straight title at the 31st<\/sup> Tankworld-Rebound Ace Sports Victorian Country Tennis Association (VCTA) Country Week, which concluded in Swan Hill today.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re happy to have won again. The whole team played well and we look forward to coming back next year,\u201d said Danielle Bowles from Tandara.<\/p>\n

On the men\u2019s side, The Lecontes from Geelong took home the A grade title with a convincing 4-6-41 to 0-1-30 defeat of Mud Island.<\/p>\n

Earlier, the event was declared a success by the players, the Swan Hill Lawn Tennis Club, the Sports Minister, Hugh Delahunty and local Swan Hill businesses.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve enjoyed it immensely,\u201d said Anthony Slattery from Hay who attended Country Week for the first time.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a credit to all involved who put in the man hours to get the tournament up and running. We\u2019re coming back. We\u2019re propping up the bottom of the ladder, but we don\u2019t care. Tennis is the winner.\u201d<\/p>\n

In contrast, Sandra Allen from the Wodonga Whiskers team has been coming to Country Week for 30 years, having only missed the first event in 1982, and said it was the tennis, the camaraderie, the sociability and the friends she has made over the years that keeps her coming back.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe keep coming because we have so much fun,\u201d said Allen.<\/p>\n

Trevor Holt, the President of the Swan Hill Lawn Tennis Club said it had been a great week for the club and they would be looking to apply for the event again in the future.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s been sensational,\u201d said Holt.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe weather has been great, the tennis has been great and the people have been fantastic – it\u2019s what Country Week is.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThe club tries very hard to do the right thing by the players by pricing things accordingly and I think they reciprocate by supporting the club.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s too good an event for both the club and the town to not put in for it. It doesn\u2019t matter how much work is involved. That\u2019s irrelevant.\u201d<\/p>\n

Java Spice is one of the local businesses who has benefited greatly from having Country Week in Swan Hill, with owner Peter Morrison declaring it their biggest week of the year.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt has a massive impact because February is traditionally a very quiet time,\u201d said Morrison.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a really big boost for us. In terms of the money that we turn over, Country Week would be a bigger week than our busiest week in December.<\/p>\n

As the biggest grasscourt tournament in Australia, the Tankworld-Rebound Ace Sports Victorian Country Tennis Association (VCTA) Country Week saw 197 men\u2019s and women\u2019s teams and more than 1200 people compete in the round-robin format tournament.<\/p>\n

Each team consisted of a minimum of four men or four women (with a maximum of eight players per team), who played in 24 grades ranging from A to C.<\/p>\n

The 2013 event will be played at the Wodonga Tennis Centre from 11-15 February, 2013.<\/p>\n

See full finals results<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Download high resolution photos from Country Week<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tandara\u2019s women\u2019s A grade team has set a new record, winning their sixth straight title at the 31st Tankworld-Rebound Ace Sports Victorian Country Tennis Association (VCTA) Country Week, which concluded in Swan Hill today. \u201cWe\u2019re happy to have won again. The whole team played well and we look forward to coming back next year,\u201d said […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5907,"featured_media":5657,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5656","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\/5656","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=5656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5656\/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=5656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}