{"id":10440,"date":"2017-01-16T12:21:58","date_gmt":"2017-01-16T01:21:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/?p=10440"},"modified":"2017-01-16T14:08:39","modified_gmt":"2017-01-16T03:08:39","slug":"senior-volunteer-still-going-strong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/news\/2017\/01\/16\/senior-volunteer-still-going-strong","title":{"rendered":"Senior Volunteer Still Going Strong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>83-year-old Tennis ACT volunteer <strong>Jane Reynolds<\/strong> [left] is proudly giving back to the Canberra tennis community.<\/p>\n<p>As the most senior member of the volunteer team, the <strong>East Hotel Canberra Challenger 2017 <\/strong>is the second year Jane from Watson has volunteered at the award winning tournament. Pictured with fellow volunteer <strong>Anne Haycock<\/strong>, Jane has enjoyed every minute of the experience and didn\u2019t miss a single day.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEveryone [at the tournament] is very supportive,\u201d Jane said. \u201cIt\u2019s a very nice experience.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou see the players as well as assisting with the drinks and clean towels and anything else they need. It\u2019s interesting, and there\u2019s a good team spirit. You get to know all the other people. It\u2019s very enjoyable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A big tennis fan, Jane has been a member of the newly refurbished Canberra Tennis Centre in Lyneham for 15 years, where she plays three times a week and sometimes on a Sunday \u2013 if it\u2019s not too hot.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have a veteran team. I\u2019m one of the oldest,\u201d she said. \u201cIf you\u2019re over 80 we call ourselves the OBE\u2019s \u2013 Over Bloody Eighties.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Growing up in England, Jane was a big hockey fan, exploring her love of tennis after immigrating to Australia in 2002.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs you get older [hockey is] a bit strenuous, so tennis is a good game when you\u2019re getting older,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Winning the <strong>Minister for Sport &amp; Recreation\u2019s Award for Event Excellence <\/strong>at the <strong>2016<\/strong> <strong>CBR Sport Awards<\/strong>, it\u2019s no wonder volunteers like Jane enjoy the experience and return to the events in Lyneham each year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ll go on as long as I can,\u201d Jane said. \u201cI may hang up the tennis racquet in a few years\u2019 time but so far I\u2019m all right.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Upcoming tournaments and volunteer opportunities can be found on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/tournaments\/calendar?tournament_state_country=ACT&amp;tournament_filter=true\">Tennis Australia website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>83-year-old Tennis ACT volunteer Jane Reynolds [left] is proudly giving back to the Canberra tennis community. As the most senior member of the volunteer team, the East Hotel Canberra Challenger 2017 is the second year Jane from Watson has volunteered at the award winning tournament. Pictured with fellow volunteer Anne Haycock, Jane has enjoyed every [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5993,"featured_media":10443,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5993"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10440\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}