{"id":16122,"date":"2020-03-13T13:45:15","date_gmt":"2020-03-13T02:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/?p=16122"},"modified":"2020-03-13T13:45:15","modified_gmt":"2020-03-13T02:45:15","slug":"tact-media-statement-canberra-itf-tournaments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/news\/2020\/03\/13\/tact-media-statement-canberra-itf-tournaments","title":{"rendered":"TACT Media Statement &#8211; Canberra ITF Tournaments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Overnight the International Tennis Federation (ITF) announced it is taking the precautionary measure to postpone all ITF-owned and sanctioned events due to the global impact of COVID-19 until at least the week of Monday 20 April.\u00a0 This includes the ACT Claycourt International #1 &amp; #2 that was scheduled to take place at the Canberra Tennis Centre from 16-29 March and the ITF Seniors ACT Open Seniors Tournament from 10-13 April.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe ITF has made this decision in the interests of the health and safety of the players, officials, tournament staff, and spectators,\u201d said Tennis ACT CEO, Kim Kachel.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe ITF will be monitoring the situation closely over the coming weeks and we hope to see tennis return on the professional tours soon,\u201d Kachel added.<\/p>\n<p>The full statement from the ITF is available <a href=\"https:\/\/www.itftennis.com\/en\/news-and-media\/articles\/itf-postpones-all-events-until-20-april\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For up to date information on health advice for COVID-19 specific to Canberra, please visit the ACT Health website &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.health.act.gov.au\">https:\/\/www.health.act.gov.au<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Overnight the International Tennis Federation (ITF) announced it is taking the precautionary measure to postpone all ITF-owned and sanctioned events due to the global impact of COVID-19 until at least the week of Monday 20 April.\u00a0 This includes the ACT Claycourt International #1 &amp; #2 that was scheduled to take place at the Canberra Tennis [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5789,"featured_media":16125,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16122","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\/16122","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=16122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16122\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}