Tennis Victoria is excited to announce the selected clubs for the highly anticipated 2013 Premier League competition to commence on Friday 1 March.<\/p>\n
For the first time ever, the competition will feature a Country Victoria team, the Country All Stars, who will be based in Bendigo.<\/p>\n
\u201dThe All Stars add a new dimension to this competition and ensure that country players have the opportunity to play in a high level competition and spectators have the chance to watch some great tennis without travelling to the city,\u201d said Tennis Victoria\u2019s Competitions Manager Jeff Downes.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe All Stars will have some strong competition from the other clubs, I believe this is the strongest field ever seen in the Premier League competition.\u201d<\/p>\n
Clubs in the men\u2019s competition:<\/p>\n
Grace Park Tennis Club<\/strong> led by Dane Propoggia (Australian Ranking (AR) of 17)<\/p>\n MCC Tennis Club<\/strong> led by former Davis Cup player Peter Luczak<\/p>\n Royal South Yarra Lawn Tennis Club<\/strong> led by David Vukasinec (AR 121)<\/p>\n Kooyong Lawn Tennis Club<\/strong> led by Andrew Coelho<\/p>\n Waverley<\/strong> led by Aaron Leeder-Chard (AR of 48)<\/p>\n Country All Stars<\/strong> led by Ryan Palfrey<\/p>\n Dingley Tennis Club<\/strong> led by Daniel Wendler.<\/p>\n Clubs in the women\u2019s competition:<\/p>\n Delahey Recreation Club<\/strong> led by Viktorija Rajicic (AR of 12)<\/p>\n Dendy Park Tennis Club<\/strong> led by young gun Stephanie Barnett<\/p>\n Grace Park Tennis Club<\/strong> led by Alison Bai (AR of 19)<\/p>\n MCC Tennis Club<\/strong> led by up and comer Zoe Hives (AR of 43)<\/p>\n Royal South Yarra Lawn Tennis Club<\/strong> led by Gussie O\u2019Sullivan (AR of 64)<\/p>\n Frankston Tennis Club<\/strong> led by Storm Sanders (AR of 18)<\/p>\n Kooyong Lawn Tennis Club<\/strong> led by Belinda Woolcock (AR of 33).<\/p>\n For the first time in the competition\u2019s history, the winner and finalist will be awarded $4000 and $1000 respectively in both the men\u2019s and women\u2019s competitions.<\/p>\n Another new initiative includes clubs hosting Super Rounds, as seen during the Asia-Pacific Tennis League. Each club will host a Super Round, where all matches will be played at their venue. Fixtures will be released on Friday 15 February<\/strong>, along with the final approved singles order of merit lists of each team. View the 2013 Premier League Team male<\/a> and female<\/a> squads.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Tennis Victoria is excited to announce the selected clubs for the highly anticipated 2013 Premier League competition to commence on Friday 1 March. For the first time ever, the competition will feature a Country Victoria team, the Country All Stars, who will be based in Bendigo. \u201dThe All Stars add a new dimension to this […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5907,"featured_media":9982,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9981","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\/9981","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=9981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9981\/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=9981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}