{"id":2389,"date":"2011-05-15T11:04:06","date_gmt":"2011-05-15T01:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/?p=2389"},"modified":"2011-05-15T11:04:06","modified_gmt":"2011-05-15T01:04:06","slug":"13th-australian-masters-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/news\/2011\/05\/15\/13th-australian-masters-games","title":{"rendered":"13th Australian Masters Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/files\/2011\/05\/AMG.png\"><\/a>The 13th Australian Masters Games will be held in Adelaide from 7-16 October 2011.<\/p>\n<p>The Games provide the opportunity for participation and competition for everyone, regardless of background or ability with the aim of encouraging lifelong participation in sport. The only requirement is that you meet the minimum age for the sport, which for Baseball is 30 years old for women and 35 years old for men.<\/p>\n<p>The Games are expected to attract more than 10,000 competitors who will take part in more than 60 sports that are available. While competition is important, one of the key attractions of this unique event is the social interaction and spirit of camaraderie experienced by participants.<\/p>\n<p>A special feature of this year\u2019s Games will be the City of Adelaide Games Village, which will be located in central Adelaide (Memorial Drive Tennis Complex, War Memorial Drive, North Adelaide) and will be the hub of activity throughout the Games. The village will host an entire social program the Opening and Closing ceremonies as well as house the accreditation centre and various other games services like the Games expo, Games administration, volunteer hub and much more.<\/p>\n<p>There is so much on offer this Masters Games so get the team together, get to the website and get in the game!<\/p>\n<p>To register or for more information about the Games go to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.australianmastersgames.com\/\">www.AustralianMastersGames.com<\/a> or call (08) 8409 1900.<\/p>\n<p>Important Dates<br \/>\n7 August \u2013 Registrations close<br \/>\n7 October \u2013 first day of competition commences<br \/>\n8 October \u2013 Opening Ceremony<br \/>\n15 October \u2013 Closing Ceremony<br \/>\n16 October \u2013 final day of competition<\/p>\n<p>Facebook:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/#!\/AustralianMastersGames\">http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/#!\/AustralianMastersGames<\/a><br \/>\nTwitter:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/13AMG\">http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/13AMG<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 13th Australian Masters Games will be held in Adelaide from 7-16 October 2011. The Games provide the opportunity for participation and competition for everyone, regardless of background or ability with the aim of encouraging lifelong participation in sport. The only requirement is that you meet the minimum age for the sport, which for Baseball [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5910,"featured_media":2397,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2389","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\/2389","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\/5910"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2389\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}