{"id":474481,"date":"2026-02-12T06:12:21","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T06:12:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/474481\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T06:12:21","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T06:12:21","slug":"gallery-one-point-slam-champion-crowned-at-tennis-victoria-country-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/474481\/","title":{"rendered":"Gallery | One Point Slam champion crowned at Tennis Victoria Country Week"},"content":{"rendered":"

It was all in good fun though, as high spirits and energy filled the crowd and players partaking in the latest tennis wave.<\/p>\n

The extreme pressure tournament is exactly how it sounds – no games or sets for victory, just one singular point to advance.<\/p>\n

15 to love, and you move on.<\/p>\n

Registrations for the tournament were capped after the first day of sign-ups released and even in sweltering evening heat before Wednesday night\u2019s cool change, a strong crowd had turned out at Mooroopna to witness the action.<\/p>\n

Ultimately there could only be one person left standing, with Bendigo\u2019s Vijay claiming the thirst-quenching prize of a year\u2019s worth of beer, going faultless in the do or die tournament.<\/p>\n

\u201cI felt very thrilled and very excited \u2013 having all the people watching was incredible,\u201d Vijay said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s very similar to the rest of Country Week, everyone gets around you.<\/p>\n

\u201cI met a lot of people. It\u2019s a great atmosphere.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ll be back next year, I can\u2019t wait.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tennis Victoria chief executive officer Kim Kachel reiterated the success of the one point tournament.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe 1 Point POP Slam captured exactly what Country Week is about \u2013 competitive spirit, great atmosphere and bringing people together,\u201d Kachel said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere was incredible energy courtside, plenty of laughs and ultimately one deserving champion.\u201d<\/p>\n

Country Week continued on Thursday with semi-final match-ups, before the deciders are played on Friday.<\/p>\n

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\n Bendigo’s Sid Vijay releases relief and ecstasy after winning the one point slam.
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\n Rechelle Zammit<\/p>\n

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\n Bendigo’s Sid Vijay won the one point slam.
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\n Rechelle Zammit<\/p>\n

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\n Altona’s Alex Milanese watches as the ball flies by to end his run.
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\n Rechelle Zammit<\/p>\n

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\n Zach Kangelaris fends with the racquet.
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\n Rechelle Zammit<\/p>\n

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\n Altona’s Mark Separovic hustles to the right to keep his chances alive.
\n Photo by
\n Rechelle Zammit<\/p>\n

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\n Altona’s Mark Separovic awaits a return.
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\n Rechelle Zammit<\/p>\n

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\n Shepparton Lawn’s Robbie Mifka watches the serve.
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\n Rechelle Zammit<\/p>\n

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\n Bathurst’s Guy Fletcher prepares to make a desperate swing at the ball.
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\n Rechelle Zammit<\/p>\n

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\n Shepparton Lawn’s Robbie Mifka puts all his force into the forehand.
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\n Rechelle Zammit<\/p>\n

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\n Altona’s Aleks Jankovic positions himself for a match-winner.
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\n Rechelle Zammit<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It was all in good fun though, as high spirits and energy filled the crowd and players partaking…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":474482,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":["post-474481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=474481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474481\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/474482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=474481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=474481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=474481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}