{"id":14080,"date":"2018-10-03T09:44:21","date_gmt":"2018-10-02T23:44:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/?p=14080"},"modified":"2018-10-05T08:35:52","modified_gmt":"2018-10-04T22:35:52","slug":"corporate-hospitality-and-ticket-sales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/news\/2018\/10\/03\/corporate-hospitality-and-ticket-sales","title":{"rendered":"Apis Canberra International bigger and better in 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tennis ACT have launched the 2018 Apis Canberra International<\/strong> at the Canberra Tennis Centre today. Part of The Australian Pro Tour, the next generation of top tennis players are set to compete when the\u00a0Apis Canberra International\u00a0kicks off in Canberra from October 27 \u2013 November 4 with a\u00a0USD$75,000\u00a0ATP Challenger event and\u00a0a USD$60,000\u00a0<\/strong>ITF Women\u2019s\u00a0event.<\/p>\n

Players from the world\u2019s top 200, and a crop of rising tennis stars from Australia and across the globe, will compete for significant prize money and valuable world ranking points, as they look to boost their rankings ahead of the Australian Summer of Tennis.<\/p>\n

This year is shaping up to be bigger than ever, with Tennis ACT today announcing an increase in seating capacity, reserved seating and the introduction of an exclusive corporate hospitality area.<\/p>\n

Tennis ACT CEO, Kim Kachel<\/strong> states \u201cThe Apis Canberra International returns for a fourth year to the world class Canberra Tennis Centre.\u00a0\u00a0 Last year 111 players participated in the tournament from 19 countries. We are excited to once more welcome Australian champions and future international stars of the sport\u201d.<\/p>\n

Kachel continues \u201cThis year\u2019s event promises to be even bigger and better including a larger Kids Tennis Day to be held on Saturday 3 November. Last year\u2019s Kids Tennis Day saw over 2,000 people on site with 100 free tennis racquets given away in seven minutes.\u00a0 We look forward to seeing the vibrant crowds and international fan bases from across the ACT and region once more out in force.\u201d<\/p>\n

In 2017 the event saw 11,976 people through the gates over the nine day tournament, making it an iconic Canberra event. Naming rights partner Anthony Honeyman<\/strong> from the Apis Group<\/strong> said the community element plays a key role in the event.<\/p>\n

\u201cApis Group is part of the Canberra community, and it is great to have international events in the nation\u2019s capital. As Canberra\u2019s most successful professional services firm we are very proud to continue to support events of this nature and are excited to see some of the best players in the world compete in our home town of Canberra.<\/p>\n

The Apis Group are excited to partner with Menlink in 2018, and will raise much needed funds for this charity at the Kids Day, Saturday 3 November\u201d, Honeyman added.<\/p>\n

Canberra\u2019s highest ranked female Alison Bai<\/strong> will return to the event which saw her make a memorable run to the semifinals in 2017.\u00a0 The world No.353 is looking forward to playing at home in Canberra, \u201dI am excited to play in my home town, it\u2019s a great opportunity to showcase Canberra to the instate and international players.\u00a0 The Apis Canberra International always has great crowds, and I love having my family and friends at the event and exposing tennis to the Canberra community\u201d.<\/p>\n

Ticketing information<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

Ticketing is now available to purchase for both the reserved seating zone and corporate hospitality. To purchase CLICK HERE.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tennis ACT have launched the 2018 Apis Canberra International at the Canberra Tennis Centre today. Part of The Australian Pro Tour, the next generation of top tennis players are set to compete when the\u00a0Apis Canberra International\u00a0kicks off in Canberra from October 27 \u2013 November 4 with a\u00a0USD$75,000\u00a0ATP Challenger event and\u00a0a USD$60,000\u00a0ITF Women\u2019s\u00a0event. Players from the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5789,"featured_media":14096,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14080","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\/14080","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\/5789"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14080\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}