{"id":10550,"date":"2017-02-06T13:24:59","date_gmt":"2017-02-06T02:24:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/?p=10550"},"modified":"2017-02-09T15:00:28","modified_gmt":"2017-02-09T04:00:28","slug":"free-tennis-for-charity-at-the-pines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/news\/2017\/02\/06\/free-tennis-for-charity-at-the-pines","title":{"rendered":"Free tennis for charity at the Pines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday 25 February, The Pines Tennis Club in Chisholm is set to hold <strong>Tennis Carnivale,\u00a0<\/strong>a free tennis day for the community to\u00a0raise money for <strong>Ronald McDonald Children&#8217;s House<\/strong> Canberra.<\/p>\n<p>Over the past three years, the club has gone through an important transition phase, including court resurfacing, LED lighting and more recently, a new state of the art electronic gate access system. The system allows members to access the club and it&#8217;s facilities 24\/7 after booking a court, with a simple access code.<\/p>\n<p>Together with Canberra School of Tennis, the club delivers\u00a0successful coaching programs, social tennis, pennant competitions on a regular basis\u00a0and has\u00a0further plans to expand the facility. The 2016 Tennis Carnivale event at The Pines\u00a0attracted over 350 people.<\/p>\n<p>Whether you\u2019re coming to the free tennis day alone or with friends there will plenty of opportunities for a social hit with <strong>Free Play<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Tennis Carnivale\u00a02017 will offer:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>ANZ Tennis Hot Shots<\/strong>, where\u00a0players use smaller courts, smaller racquets and low-compression tennis balls. A modified introductory form of tennis for kids, ANZ Tennis Hot Shots is a great fun way to get children rallying right from their first hit;<\/li>\n<li>Looking for a workout? Try a <strong>Fitbit Cardio Tennis<\/strong> session. Bringing together a variety of cardio workouts and a range of fun tennis drills, Fitbit Cardio Tennis is all about quick fitness and great tunes;<\/li>\n<li>Free tennis clinics for adults and junior players;<\/li>\n<li>Serve your best and have a hit in front of the <strong>speed serve<\/strong> radar;<\/li>\n<li>Free court hire;<\/li>\n<li>Coaching and membership discount offers;<\/li>\n<li>Free family activities including\u00a0a giant slide, face painting, jumping castle, plus a visit from Ronald McDonald.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>Details <\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong>Date:<\/strong> Saturday 25 February 2017<\/p>\n<p><strong>Start time:<\/strong>\u00a01:30pm<\/p>\n<p><strong>Address:<\/strong> Corner of Goldstein Crescent &amp; Norriss Street, Chisholm, ACT<\/p>\n<p><strong>Website<\/strong>:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pinestennisact.com\/\">www.pinestennisact.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>#GetCourtUp<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday 25 February, The Pines Tennis Club in Chisholm is set to hold Tennis Carnivale,\u00a0a free tennis day for the community to\u00a0raise money for Ronald McDonald Children&#8217;s House Canberra. Over the past three years, the club has gone through an important transition phase, including court resurfacing, LED lighting and more recently, a new state [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5971,"featured_media":10569,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10550","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\/10550","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\/5971"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10550\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}