{"id":16298,"date":"2020-05-29T08:30:22","date_gmt":"2020-05-28T22:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/?p=16298"},"modified":"2020-06-19T15:38:01","modified_gmt":"2020-06-19T05:38:01","slug":"updated-community-tennis-guidelines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/news\/2020\/05\/29\/updated-community-tennis-guidelines","title":{"rendered":"Updated Community Tennis Guidelines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday 26 May, the ACT Chief Minister announced that from midnight on 29 May 2020, the ACT will enter Phase 2.1 of recommencement for community sporting activity.<\/p>\n<p>The major changes applicable to tennis include the following<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Groups of up to 20 are now permitted.<\/li>\n<li>Coaching \u2013 up to 20 participants <strong><u>plus <\/u><\/strong>the coach are permitted.\u00a0 Spectators for minors are not considered part of the groups under Phase 2, so junior coaching groups can be up to 20 participants (plus coach).\u00a0 Only one parent\/guardian should accompany a minor and should be separated from participants and maintain physical distancing from other spectators of at least 1.5m.<\/li>\n<li>Clubhouses still remain closed.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As a result, the Community Tennis Guidelines have now been updated and the new version will come into effect Saturday 30 May, 12.00am \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/?p=16193\">https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/?p=16193<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Please ensure you read the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/?p=16193\">Community Tennis Guidelines, ACT<\/a>\u00a0prior to play and adhere to the following at all times<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Stay 1.5 metres apart<\/li>\n<li>Follow the one person per 4 square metres rule.<\/li>\n<li>Practice good hand hygiene before and after playing<\/li>\n<li>If you are unwell, please stay home<\/li>\n<li>Groups of no more than 20 people<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Tennis encourages all participants to download the COVIDSafe app to help speed up the process of identifying anyone who has been in close contact with someone diagnosed with COVID-19.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The tennis court is the perfect place to exercise safely.<br \/> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/toddwoodbridge?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@toddwoodbridge<\/a> and John Fitzgerald take us through some simple steps for healthy hitting.<br \/> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/TheCourtIsCalling?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#TheCourtIsCalling<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ZDAM32Yq5w\">pic.twitter.com\/ZDAM32Yq5w<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; TennisAustralia (@TennisAustralia) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TennisAustralia\/status\/1265529438307061761?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 27, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday 26 May, the ACT Chief Minister announced that from midnight on 29 May 2020, the ACT will enter Phase 2.1 of recommencement for community sporting activity. The major changes applicable to tennis include the following Groups of up to 20 are now permitted. Coaching \u2013 up to 20 participants plus the coach are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5789,"featured_media":16303,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16298","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\/16298","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=16298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16298\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}