{"id":10717,"date":"2017-03-09T17:40:57","date_gmt":"2017-03-09T06:40:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/?p=10717"},"modified":"2017-03-22T14:36:09","modified_gmt":"2017-03-22T03:36:09","slug":"officials-update-and-upcoming-course","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/news\/2017\/03\/09\/officials-update-and-upcoming-course","title":{"rendered":"ACT Officials: upcoming course"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>ACT Officials have had a busy start to 2017, involved in the great success of the <strong>East Hotel Canberra Challenger <\/strong>and many representing the ACT at <strong>Australian Open 2017.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to the following ACT officials who were part of the team of 300 officials from all over Australia and the world, as\u00a0on-court as line umpires at <strong>Australian Open 2017<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mary Collier<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Myles Emery<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>David Hinds<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Lyn Hinds<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Constantine Nikolakopoulos<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Josh Rowland<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Guy Sancataldo<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Paul Simper<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Emma Walter<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Special congratulations to the following officials whose outstanding performance during the tournament saw them selected for finals:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Paul Simper<\/strong> (women\u2019s semis),<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dave and Lyn Hinds<\/strong> (men\u2019s semis and junior and wheelchair finals),<\/p>\n<p><strong>Josh Rowland<\/strong> (women\u2019s final)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Myles Emery<\/strong> (men\u2019s final).<\/p>\n<p>These officials continue the proud legacy of ACT being the smallest membership in Australia but over represents in finals \u2013 producing world class officials right here in Canberra.<\/p>\n<p>If you are interested in joining this team and being on court with some of the world\u2019s best come and join in a FREE<strong>\u00a0Line Umpire Course <\/strong>after the ACT Claycourt International Finals on <strong>Sunday 26 March 2017 <\/strong>from 1-5pm.<\/p>\n<p>Please register your interest <a href=\"https:\/\/officials.wufoo.com\/forms\/r1eiiujj0hw7pih\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For more information about officiating <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/learn\/ballkids-officials-coaches-and-volunteers\/officials\/become-an-official\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0ACT Officials have had a busy start to 2017, involved in the great success of the East Hotel Canberra Challenger and many representing the ACT at Australian Open 2017. Congratulations to the following ACT officials who were part of the team of 300 officials from all over Australia and the world, as\u00a0on-court as line umpires [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5971,"featured_media":10724,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10717","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\/10717","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=10717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10717\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}