Dan Gardner

Turf tidbits about SHLT&CC's 51 grass courts.

[Tennis Victoria @tennis_vic]

IT’S THAT COUNTRY WEEK MAGIC ✨

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[Dan Gardner @GreatManDan]

@MichaelCWillson Good to hear Mikka! 👍

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Last tournament of the season. 8°C. 7.30am last of dew removal. 42 grass courts already full before sunrise, getting their warm-ups in. Gotta love it!

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Awesome to have Lyndon and Stef from Tennis Lab do some Court Pace Rating testing with the ITF CPR machine during last week's Pro Tour event. Likely the first time Australian grasscouts have been tested in past 30 years.

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@AFD7L To clarify in those pics there are about 90 grass courts. 51 are permanent. The others temporary, laid out for Country Week tennis tournament.

[The First Serve @TheFirstServeAU]

🏆🔥17 year old rising 🇦🇺 Hayden Jones secures his first pro title winning the ITF M25 Swan Hill 🇦🇺 Doubles with 🇳🇿 Ajeet Rai 6-4, 6-4 def 🇦🇺 Delaney / 🇦🇺 Saville (3)

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BACK TO BACK FOR BOLT 🔥🔥

31 year old 🇦🇺 Alex Bolt (1) is the ITF M25 Swan Hill 🇦🇺 singles champion def 🇯🇵 Rio Noguchi (5) 6-1, 6-2.

- 10 wins in a row after winning Mildura last weekend. 25-6 this season

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🏆 23 year old 🇦🇺 Gabriella Da Silva Fick (7) in her first ITF pro singles final is the W35 Swan Hill 🇦🇺 champion coming from a set down to defeat 15 year old fellow 🇦🇺 Emerson Jones.

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Victorian Grasscourts done and dusted. https://t.co/HZFz3sWVLK

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New Tractor Appreciation Day. Happens about once every 20 years. 😉

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Nice little sunrise surprise for the last early start of a long season defined by the early La Nina flooding, 2x two week tournaments of Australian Seniors Championships & Swan Hill International Pro Tours, and now completing our four day Easter 03K J125 Swan Hill Event.🙂

[Dan Gardner @GreatManDan]

@asianturfgrass Very cool Micah, thanks. Verifies the unusual cloud covered wet start we had to the season in Vic, Aus. 👍

[The First Serve @TheFirstServeAU]

ITF Singles title number 2️⃣ for 22 year old 🇦🇺 Tristan Schoolkate (1) def 🇦🇺 Philip Sekulic (4) 4-6, 6-4, 6-3 to lift the M25 Swan Hill 🏆

First since September 21, after being RU in all three finals he played in 2022.

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🇦🇺 Luke Saville is through to his first singles final in more than three years, taking down fellow Aussie and his doubles partner, Tristan Schoolkate 7-6(4), 6-1 to advance to the ITF 25k final in Swan Hill. 👏

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Champions 🏆

In an all-Aussie doubles final at the ITF 25K in Swan Hill, Alexandra Bozovic and Elysia Bolton have come out on top, taking down Olivia Gadecki and Petra Hule in a nail biting final 7-6(3), 2-6, 10-7. 🤝👏💪

It’s a fourth career ITF doubles title for Bozovic and also a fourth career ITF doubles title for Bolton respectively. 🙌

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Three on the trot 🏆🔥

Aussie duo Tristan Schoolkate and Luke Saville have claimed their third-straight ITF doubles title, taking down fellow Aussies Blake Ellis & Matthew Romios 6-3, 6-4 to claim the ITF 25K title in Swan Hill. 👏💪😤

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First title in 7 years 🏆

🇦🇺 Thomas Fancutt has claimed his first professional singles title since 2016, defeating fellow Australian Luke Saville in a nail biting battle in the final of the ITF 25K in Swan Hill. 👏

The 28-year-old continues his rise up the ATP rankings, now on the cusp of the top-400 🙌

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[Dan Gardner @GreatManDan]

@GeeMac_1 We are at about 5mm @GeeMac_1 and growth regulated during peak season.

[Dan Gardner @GreatManDan]

So rewarding to experience last 15 days of #ProTour. Learning about different expectations and wear patterns of the pros playing for 100K. Well done to all involved. 👏