{"id":16651,"date":"2020-10-29T11:38:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-29T00:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/?p=16651"},"modified":"2020-10-29T11:42:53","modified_gmt":"2020-10-29T00:42:53","slug":"friday-night-lights-underway-in-canberra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/news\/2020\/10\/29\/friday-night-lights-underway-in-canberra","title":{"rendered":"Friday night lights underway in Canberra"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Canberra Tennis has sparked an electric atmosphere with the introduction of the Universal Tennis Rating (UTR) Friday Night Lights Canberra.\u00a0 The eight week twilight competition is headlined by the UK\u2019s Brydan Klein (UTR 14.05) and Canberra\u2019s own James Frawley (UTR 12.85).\u00a0 The pair lead the competition which features 10 of Canberra\u2019s up and coming players.<\/p>\n<p>The first two weeks have already progressed with the highly rated pair dominating the competition yet providing a welcome competitive experience for local up and coming players alongside of ACT\u2019s highly rated players.<\/p>\n<p>Tennis Australia National Development Coach \u2013 ACT, Milo Bradley, mentions, \u201cThe objective of UTR Friday Night Lights is to provide more competitive opportunities for our players during a year when these opportunities have been few and far between.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have been fortunate in the Men\u2019s to have some older players stick their hands up to compete to challenge our up and coming players.\u00a0 While in the women, although small in numbers, it was our objective to get some type of competitive opportunity happening.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Playing line up includes:<\/p>\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse;width: 59.4634%;height: 240px\" border=\"1\">\n<tbody>\n<tr style=\"height: 24px\">\n<td style=\"width: 30.5685%;height: 24px\">Men&#8217;s UTR 8.5 and above<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 28.9605%;height: 24px\">Women&#8217;s UTR 7 and above<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 24px\">\n<td style=\"width: 30.5685%;height: 24px\">Brydan Klein<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 28.9605%;height: 24px\">Ashleigh Simes<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 24px\">\n<td style=\"width: 30.5685%;height: 24px\">James Frawley<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 28.9605%;height: 24px\">Alyssa Simoncini<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 24px\">\n<td style=\"width: 30.5685%;height: 24px\">Charlie Camus<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 28.9605%;height: 24px\">Aliyah Dwyer<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 24px\">\n<td style=\"width: 30.5685%;height: 24px\">Charlie Snow<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 28.9605%;height: 24px\">Isabella Andrews<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 24px\">\n<td style=\"width: 30.5685%;height: 24px\">Lachlan Rowing<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 28.9605%;height: 24px\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 24px\">\n<td style=\"width: 30.5685%;height: 24px\">Brendan Middleton<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 28.9605%;height: 24px\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 24px\">\n<td style=\"width: 30.5685%;height: 24px\">Mikey Pribyl<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 28.9605%;height: 24px\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 24px\">\n<td style=\"width: 30.5685%;height: 24px\">Dylan White<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 28.9605%;height: 24px\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 24px\">\n<td style=\"width: 30.5685%;height: 24px\">Anirudh Nallaparaju<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 28.9605%;height: 24px\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 30.5685%\">Phillip Nguyen<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 28.9605%\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Results can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/app.myutr.com\/events\/29266?d=bed4b794-ec33-46d5-bc80-cbf04c28566f&amp;r=0&amp;t=1\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>What is a UTR?\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.myutr.com\/\">Universal Tennis Rating (UTR)<\/a><u>\u00a0<\/u>is an international tennis rating system that connects millions of tennis players around the world to help them find better matches locally. UTR reflects a player\u2019s current skill level based on head-to-head match scores, and rates all players across age, gender and nationality on the same 16-point scale. Every player can have a UTR \u2013 from the pros to juniors to social tennis players.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canberra Tennis has sparked an electric atmosphere with the introduction of the Universal Tennis Rating (UTR) Friday Night Lights Canberra.\u00a0 The eight week twilight competition is headlined by the UK\u2019s Brydan Klein (UTR 14.05) and Canberra\u2019s own James Frawley (UTR 12.85).\u00a0 The pair lead the competition which features 10 of Canberra\u2019s up and coming players. 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