There is a lot at stake for a number of competing teams in the final round of the Central Wimmera Tennis Association season this weekend.
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Horsham Lawn will be playing for a finals spot in both A Special and A Grade with a simple equation: win and they're in.
In A Special, Homers will be the club hoping they slip up, while Natimuk are a distant chance if there is a serious turnaround in percentage.
Horsham Lawn would consider themselves favourites in their match against Noradjuha who have only won two matches this season. But Horsham Lawn's captain Maree Thompson and talented youngster Tahlia Thompson will be unavailable.
Maree said the team had gotten used to a rotating roster of players and hoped they could still get the win.
"We need to win to stay in, it's that simple," she said.
"All season we haven't had a settled team, we've had players in and out. This week we will have some more out but there's no reason why we can't do the job on Saturday regardless."
Homers meanwhile face a must-win match against the favoured Central Park Red. Central Park Red will be playing for the minor premiership against Homers, as a percentage boosting win could push them above Brimpaen and into first place.
But Brimpaen will also be expecting a percentage boost against bottom placed Haven.
It should be a similarly hotly contested finish in A Grade, with Horsham Lawn, Haven and Kalkee vying for the final two spots in the top four.
Kalkee are two points behind both sides and face the toughest task against minor premiers Central Park. Haven also have a challenge against St Michael's, while Horsham Lawn will go in favourites against sixth placed Quantong.
Maree Thompson said it was exciting to have so many hypothetical possibilities at this stage of the season.
"Until it's all played on Saturday night nobody is going to know, which is how it should be," she said.
Meanwhile the top four places are all wrapped-up in pennant tennis, with some lopsided percentages allowing for little movement in the final round.
Telangatuk East will have their last chance this season to win their first pennant contest in the club's history against the ladder-leading St Michael's.