The Women\u2019s grade five Grand Final between Doveton and Kooyong Lawn wasn\u2019t your average game of tennis.<\/p>\n
In an unusual event, the Kooyong team was made up of not one but two sets of twins. Coincidentally, both sets were born within a week of each other.<\/p>\n
Elle and Paris Dagres, and Madeleine and Alexandra Bailey, are all fifteen years old and played the majority of the 2012 season together. They formed a formidable combination along with their fifth player, Ifeoma Donnellan, to reach the Grand Final.<\/p>\n
Alexandra said although they had the occasional argument, there were some definite advantages of playing alongside her twin sister.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s really good playing with someone you’re really close with because you\u2019re not afraid to tell them anything, so she can tell me things I\u2019m doing wrong and I can tell her things she\u2019s doing wrong,\u201d said Alexandra.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s just easier playing together, we can communicate better … it\u2019s easier to talk to each other,\u201d added Madeleine.<\/p>\n
When asked who the better player was, Madeleine quickly responded with: \u201cOh me, definitely, I beat her on the weekend\u201d.<\/p>\n
Much like their appearance, the two were hard to separate in their match, with Madeleine scraping home 7-5 in a tiebreaker.<\/p>\n
The girls\u2019 mother Marcia said the twin factor had its ups and downs.<\/p>\n
\u201cSometimes they can think the same thing and they can both go for the ball or both miss the ball,\u201d said Marcia.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut most of the time, they do work together,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n
On the day, Doveton ended the fairy tale run, defeating the twin team four rubbers to two.<\/p>\n
Photo (left to right): Paris Dagres, Alexandra Bailey, Elle Dagres, Madeleine Bailey & Ifeoma Donnellan<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Women\u2019s grade five Grand Final between Doveton and Kooyong Lawn wasn\u2019t your average game of tennis. In an unusual event, the Kooyong team was made up of not one but two sets of twins. Coincidentally, both sets were born within a week of each other. Elle and Paris Dagres, and Madeleine and Alexandra Bailey, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5907,"featured_media":7990,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7989","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\/7989","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=7989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7989\/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=7989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}