{"id":19242,"date":"2024-03-18T16:08:26","date_gmt":"2024-03-18T05:08:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/?p=19242"},"modified":"2024-03-18T16:16:15","modified_gmt":"2024-03-18T05:16:15","slug":"beach-tennis-makes-another-splash-in-canberra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/news\/2024\/03\/18\/beach-tennis-makes-another-splash-in-canberra","title":{"rendered":"Beach Tennis Makes Another Splash in Canberra"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"\">\n<h4 class=\"_1mf _1mj\">Tennis ACT was delighted to host another massively successful Beach Tennis come &amp; try event on Sunday 17 March.<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-standard-landscape wp-image-19243\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/files\/2024\/03\/0318-700x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/files\/2024\/03\/0318-700x450.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/files\/2024\/03\/0318-360x230.jpg 360w, https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/files\/2024\/03\/0318-200x128.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>24 Canberrans of all ages and abilities hit the sand across 4 beach volleyball courts on Sunday morning to try out the fast-growing sport.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Always played in doubles, Beach Tennis is a lively and social form of tennis played on sand with a lower compression ball and special stringless paddles. There\u2019s a no bounce rule meaning the point ends as soon as the ball hits the sand. This creates plenty of frantic scrambles and fast-paced rallies &#8211; not to mention a few dives into the sand!<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-standard-landscape wp-image-19244\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/files\/2024\/03\/0318_1-700x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/files\/2024\/03\/0318_1-700x450.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/files\/2024\/03\/0318_1-360x230.jpg 360w, https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/files\/2024\/03\/0318_1-200x128.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Find out about upcoming Beach Tennis events by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/eepurl.com\/ixFB5Q\">signing up<\/a> for the Tennis ACT newsletter.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tennis ACT was delighted to host another massively successful Beach Tennis come &amp; try event on Sunday 17 March. 24 Canberrans of all ages and abilities hit the sand across 4 beach volleyball courts on Sunday morning to try out the fast-growing sport. Always played in doubles, Beach Tennis is a lively and social form [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6356,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19242","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\/6356"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19242\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}