{"id":89,"date":"2009-12-18T21:03:41","date_gmt":"2009-12-18T21:03:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/groveparksquash.org.uk\/wordpress\/?p=89"},"modified":"2010-02-09T23:22:50","modified_gmt":"2010-02-09T23:22:50","slug":"2nd-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/groveparksquash.org.uk\/wordpress\/?p=89","title":{"rendered":"Strong finish to the half"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The First Team finished the first half of the season in second place in the table,\u00a0 just 3 points behind the leaders, New Brighton. They ended with\u00a0 a 3-2 win against a strong Heswall team. The inform, Laurence Delasaux dispatched World No.94 in three comfortable games. .<!--more-->Wins from the Hibberd twins secured the victory. In the process\u00a0 Ky extended his winning streak to an impressive ten matchesYawar Abbas did well to push Chris Truswell into a fifth, but faded towards the end.\u00a0He just missed out\u00a013-11 in a very tight second game. If he had managed to sneak it and take a 2-0 lead, it could have been a different result.<\/p>\n<p>Third placed Northern\u00a0lost ground on the leaders after slipping up against\u00a0 a Lancashire Health &amp; Rackets\u00a0team lead by their former head coach, Pete Billson. However with their resources and strength in depth\u00a0they probably still remain favourites for the title as long as they manage to get out strong sides when Andy Whipp is away on Premier League duty.<a href=\"https:\/\/groveparksquash.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/1st-team_20091.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-97\" title=\"1st-team_2009\" src=\"https:\/\/groveparksquash.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/1st-team_20091.jpg\" alt=\"1st-team_2009\" width=\"600\" height=\"425\" srcset=\"https:\/\/groveparksquash.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/1st-team_20091.jpg 600w, https:\/\/groveparksquash.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/1st-team_20091-200x141.jpg 200w, https:\/\/groveparksquash.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/1st-team_20091-300x212.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The First Team finished the first half of the season in second place in the table,\u00a0 just 3 points behind the leaders, New Brighton. They ended with\u00a0 a 3-2 win against a strong Heswall team. The inform, Laurence Delasaux dispatched World No.94 in three comfortable games. .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/groveparksquash.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/groveparksquash.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/groveparksquash.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/groveparksquash.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/groveparksquash.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=89"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/groveparksquash.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":143,"href":"https:\/\/groveparksquash.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions\/143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/groveparksquash.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/groveparksquash.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/groveparksquash.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}