{"id":10258,"date":"2015-05-18T11:35:16","date_gmt":"2015-05-18T03:35:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/?p=10258"},"modified":"2015-05-18T11:35:16","modified_gmt":"2015-05-18T03:35:16","slug":"pizzey-cup-2015-event-wrap-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/news\/2015\/05\/18\/pizzey-cup-2015-event-wrap-up","title":{"rendered":"Pizzey Cup 2015 – Event Wrap-up"},"content":{"rendered":"

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In extremely cold and wet conditions in Hobart, the WA Pizzey cup team exceeded expectations by narrowly missing Bronze. At the completion of a gruelling week of matches, the fight for third and fourth placing was the closest in Pizzey cup history. Queensland and WA were even on rubbers and sets, with the difference being 24 games over the week\u2019s ties. The team was disappointed, however, proud of their efforts and team spirit.<\/p>\n

 
\nManagers Andrea Rundle, Simon Cockburn and Alison Kirk were extremely impressed with \u201cTeam Swannies” and repeated many times across the week that the enthusiasm and encouragement shared by all team members was outstanding. The group\u2019s camaraderie was benefitting their results on court. Leading by example, the fearless three Captains, Meg Connell, Tim Gray and Ben Webster rallied around the players with team chants, dances and encouragement at all times. An example of team spirit came when Meg Connell defeated Victoria\u2019s Danielle McIntosh, who hadn’t lost a Pizzey Cup singles in her 4 years of competition. Another highlight of the week was Tom Hann\u2019s match against Tasmania. On and off the court over many hours due to rain and minus 2 degree temperature, Tom was in a must win position to defeat the home state. Tom won in convincing style and put the team in medal winning contention. Earlier in the day, team Tasmania, had an imposing lead of 8 rubbers to 4 over \u201cTeam Swannies\u201d but WA fought back in style against Tassie\u2019s strongest team in years.
\nDuring the week all players also competed in the Australia Cup singles. Tim Gray had the best results in the main draw gaining 7th position.
\nNot only were Captains Meg, Tim and Ben outstanding at their duties, all three received the honour of being chosen onto the All Australian Team.
\nAndrea Rundle was awarded a School Sport Australia Service Award for her ten years of organising Pizzey and Bruce Cups. WA tennis players are lucky to have Andrea to organise and travel with teams.<\/p>\n

 
\nSpecial mention of Meg Connell, Sally Partington, Lachlan Napier and Marcus Bouckaert who were the only Year 12 students in the team and will be sadly missed next year.<\/p>\n

 
\nHighlights off the court was the team trip to freezing Mount Wellington, the Cadburys factory, numerous dinners at the Hope and Anchor, socialising with opposition teams at the Presentation night, kidnapping other States mascots, and the sought after team dance.<\/p>\n

 
\nSchool Sport WA would like to Thank Tennis West and Women in Tennis for their ongoing support of the Pizzey Cup event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In extremely cold and wet conditions in Hobart, the WA Pizzey cup team exceeded expectations by narrowly missing Bronze. At the completion of a gruelling week of matches, the fight for third and fourth placing was the closest in Pizzey cup history. Queensland and WA were even on rubbers and sets, with the difference being […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5812,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5812"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10258\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}