CWTA president Rod Shurdington said the change of format and additional sides had created plenty of intrigue in the association\u2019s top-level competition.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe two larger clubs, Central Park and Horsham Lawn, have put an extra team up each,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s on the basis that both those clubs have done well in A Special as well in the past couple of years.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think Central Park won the grand final in A Special the past two seasons and Horsham Lawn have been runner-up the past two years, as well as having a second team in the top four.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo instead of having four and four in pennant, by going back to three and three it means that we\u2019ve got enough depth to have two pennant teams each from those clubs, plus Kalkee and St Michaels, which is good.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mr Shurdington said A Special, which now includes five teams, would feature four players a side with the number one and two male and female players each playing a singles rubber, while the numbers three and four will play an extra doubles rubber.<\/p>\n
He said the association\u2019s junior competition, which commences with match-play sections five and six on Friday, October 9, followed by the remaining junior divisions the following day, was looking strong.<\/p>\n
\u201cOverall the competition looks pretty healthy,\u201d he said. \u201cWe\u2019re getting plenty of numbers through our lower juniors in the match-play five and six grades, which is good.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cAll the junior co-ordinators are doing a great job there.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe beauty of the competition is that we\u2019ve got players coming from Nhill, from Hamilton, from Stawell, from Donald, from Warracknabeal, from Dimboola.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo even though it\u2019s a Central Wimmera competition and most of the players are from predominantly Horsham, there\u2019s all points of the compass represented.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s really pleasing and certainly keeps the competition quite vibrant.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mr Shurdington said bird damage at some of Central Park\u2019s tennis courts would prevent their use early in the season.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere are still eight or nine courts usable, so there is a little bit of damage, but it doesn\u2019t knock the whole facility out,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cCentral Park is working closely with the council to try and get a solution to that as quickly as possible.\u201d<\/p>\n
Pennant competition commences on Saturday with Central Park Blue playing Horsham Lawn O\u2019Connor at Haven, Central Park White playing Horsham Lawn Savage at Haven and Kalkee hosting St Michaels at Kalkee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CWTA president Rod Shurdington said the change of format and additional sides had created plenty of intrigue in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":910520,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":["post-910519","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\/910519","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=910519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/910519\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/910520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=910519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=910519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=910519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}