{"id":8601,"date":"2014-03-31T12:27:38","date_gmt":"2014-03-31T04:27:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/?p=8601"},"modified":"2014-03-31T12:27:38","modified_gmt":"2014-03-31T04:27:38","slug":"state-league-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/news\/2014\/03\/31\/state-league-finals","title":{"rendered":"State League Finals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8604\" alt=\"SLF\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/files\/2014\/03\/SLF-410x203.jpg\" width=\"410\" height=\"203\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The <strong>State League Finals\u00a0<\/strong>for the 2013\/14 season took place on a rain affected weekend, culminating on Sunday in two close matches. At<strong> City Beach Tennis Club<\/strong>, the team began their match against <strong>Hensman Park<\/strong> in sunshine,\u00a0with the coveted State League shield sparkled invitingly on the grass courts alongside the players.\u00a0Spectators watched<strong> Katy O\u2019Shea (CB)<\/strong> beat <strong>Teiwa Casey<\/strong> 6-1, 6-3 and <strong>Anya Dokic (HP)<\/strong> beat <strong>Marisa Gianotti (CB)<\/strong> 6-0, 7-5. <strong>Brittany Sheed (CB)<\/strong> won her match against <strong>Megan Kauffman<\/strong> 6-3,6-3\u00a0whilst <strong>Georgia Prendergast (HP)<\/strong> beat <strong>Meg Connell<\/strong> 6-0,6-1. The best rainfall\u00a0Perth had seen in months then decided to\u00a0suspended the match until the following morning. The girls returned at 11am to play the doubles with\u00a0<strong>Katy O\u2019Shea<\/strong> and <strong>Robyn Lamb<\/strong> beating <strong>Jade Flindell<\/strong> and <strong>Georgia Prendergast<\/strong> 7-5, 6-3.\u00a0After <strong>Anya Dokic<\/strong> and <strong>Megan Kauffman<\/strong> lost a set to <strong>Marisa Gianotti<\/strong> and <strong>Brittany Sheed<\/strong>, the final was over in favour of <strong>City Beach<\/strong>. Congratulations girls!<\/p>\n<p>The Men\u2019s final between <strong>Greenwood<\/strong> and <strong>Hensman Park<\/strong> was also a close affair, with rain interrupting the fourth singles rubber. Tennis West President <strong>Greg Hutchinson<\/strong>,\u00a0his empathy noted\u00a0for\u00a0the teams due to the terrible timing of the bad weather. The players returned on Sunday morning and <strong>Greenwood<\/strong> took the shield in their first State League season; what a great start to a promising team. Captain <strong>Brad Dyer<\/strong> and President, <strong>David Bickford<\/strong> are thrilled with their success.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The State League Finals\u00a0for the 2013\/14 season took place on a rain affected weekend, culminating on Sunday in two close matches. At City Beach Tennis Club, the team began their match against Hensman Park in sunshine,\u00a0with the coveted State League shield sparkled invitingly on the grass courts alongside the players.\u00a0Spectators watched Katy O\u2019Shea (CB) beat [&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-8601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8601","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=8601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8601\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}