{"id":7895,"date":"2013-11-12T17:06:29","date_gmt":"2013-11-12T09:06:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/?p=7895"},"modified":"2013-11-12T17:06:29","modified_gmt":"2013-11-12T09:06:29","slug":"7895","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/news\/2013\/11\/12\/7895","title":{"rendered":"Wrap up of Round 1 and 2 of the WA ATL Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/news\/2013\/11\/12\/7895\/attachment\/olympus-digital-camera-35\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7899\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-7899 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/files\/2013\/11\/Mens-Round-12-410x230.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"410\" height=\"230\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The <strong>ATL WA Conference<\/strong> exploded into action on the weekend with double header fixtures for both Men and Women rounds 1 and 2. Enjoying balmy weather on Friday evening, the <strong>Wembley Wizards<\/strong> hosted the Women\u2019s teams with spectators loving the exciting tennis and an awesome sunset. \u00a0The <strong>Cottesloe Cubs<\/strong> were a depleted team and were unable to take a set from the <strong>City Beach Slammers<\/strong>. The <strong>Wizards vs Midland Mad Dogs<\/strong> was a closer affair with the <strong>Mad Dogs<\/strong> winning 5 rubbers to 1, but with only a 6 game difference.<strong> Joe McCarthy<\/strong> and<strong> Cameron Fenner<\/strong>, the coaches of the two teams, embraced the on-court coaching privilege, standing to chat with the players at every change of ends. These teams are all young players and the girls benefited immensely from the opportunity to take advice.<strong> Anya Dokic\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>said after her win over <strong>Cassie McCloskey<\/strong> \u201cThe format was really exciting, and I had to concentrate so hard that there was no time to get mad\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>At <strong>Higgins Park<\/strong>. the fast format meant that before you could say abracadabra the <strong>Wizards<\/strong> had beaten the <strong>Magic<\/strong> 5 rubbers to 1. <strong>Scott Jones<\/strong>, the 15 year old number 1 was the only <strong>Magic<\/strong> player to conjure a win, beating <strong>Fariz Mohammed<\/strong> 4-3, 4-3.\u00a0\u00a0<strong>Zach Itzstein\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>and <strong>James Studdard<\/strong> played the match of the night, with <strong>Zach winning<\/strong> 4-1,4-3. In the other match the experienced<strong> Peppermint Grove Magpies<\/strong> defeated the young <strong>Sorrento Cheetahs<\/strong>, 5 rubbers to 1. Wildcard for the <strong>Cheetahs<\/strong>, <strong>Marco Benussi<\/strong> from Italy was a valuable addition, beating <strong>Louis Corker<\/strong>, 4-0 in the third set.<\/p>\n<p>Sunday dawned with a forecast of 37 degree heat. The host club <strong>Midland Mad D<\/strong>ogs were given a walkover as the <strong>Cottesloe Cubs<\/strong> suffered too many injuries in State League matches the previous day. The <strong>City Beach Slammers<\/strong> overcame the <strong>Wembley Wizards<\/strong> 5 rubbers to 1.\u00a0\u00a0<strong>Shona Lee, Marisa Gianotti<\/strong> and <strong>Brittany Sheed<\/strong> all won their singles matches, then <strong>Katy O\u2019Shea<\/strong> and <strong>Anya Dokic<\/strong> won their doubles and the last doubles went to a match tie-break with <strong>Shona<\/strong> and <strong>Sheridan Currie<\/strong> victorious 11-9.<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>Peppermint Trees<\/strong> at the Men\u2019s fixture gave the spectators much needed shade while the players sweltered in the heat. This resulted in close matches with the <strong>Magpies<\/strong> beating the <strong>Magic<\/strong> 4-2 after 3 of the singles matches went to 3 sets, and players needing ice and towels to cope with the heat and short breaks. In the other match the <strong>Cheetahs<\/strong> and the <strong>Wizards<\/strong> ended up 3 rubbers each and an additional set to the <strong>Cheetahs<\/strong> from <strong>Marco Benussi\u2019s<\/strong> loss to <strong>Darren Slater<\/strong> gave them the overall win.<\/p>\n<p>An even round ended the weekend, leaving much at stake for round 3.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ATL WA Conference exploded into action on the weekend with double header fixtures for both Men and Women rounds 1 and 2. Enjoying balmy weather on Friday evening, the Wembley Wizards hosted the Women\u2019s teams with spectators loving the exciting tennis and an awesome sunset. \u00a0The Cottesloe Cubs were a depleted team and were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5894,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7895","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\/5894"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7895\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}