{"id":6129,"date":"2014-08-04T09:23:33","date_gmt":"2014-08-03T23:23:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/?p=6129"},"modified":"2014-08-04T09:23:33","modified_gmt":"2014-08-03T23:23:33","slug":"act-umpires-taking-on-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/news\/2014\/08\/04\/act-umpires-taking-on-the-world","title":{"rendered":"ACT Umpires Taking On the World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tennis in the ACT has enjoyed great success on the world stage over the past few months.<\/p>\n<p>Part of this success has been ACT umpire\u2019s selections for international events, including Wimbledon, Manchester, Fiji, US Open and the upcoming Youth Olympics in China.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is such an amazing privilege to have opportunities to officiate at different tournaments across the world\u201d, says Emma Walter, who recently returned from officiating in the UK, including Wimbledon.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe tennis community is so strong here in the ACT and it is so wonderful to be part of it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There are many ways you can get involved as a tennis official \u2013 whether that\u2019s getting out on the lines or being up in a chair to helping out off-court at a local tournament.<\/p>\n<p><strong>To find out how to become a Line Umpire, please come and join our introductory course:<br \/>\nDate: <\/strong><strong>Saturday 16 August 10am to 1pm.<br \/>\nVenue: Melba Tennis Club<br \/>\nBookings &amp; Further Info: Shane &#8211; <a href=\"mailto:smerry@tennis.com.au\">smerry@tennis.com.au<\/a> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For more information on officiating in the ACT visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/learn\/ballkids-officials-coaches-and-volunteers\/officials\">http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/learn\/ballkids-officials-coaches-and-volunteers\/officials<\/a> or to register your interest for the course please go to: <a href=\"https:\/\/officials.wufoo.com\/forms\/officiating-course-sign-me-up\/\">https:\/\/officials.wufoo.com\/forms\/officiating-course-sign-me-up\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tennis in the ACT has enjoyed great success on the world stage over the past few months. Part of this success has been ACT umpire\u2019s selections for international events, including Wimbledon, Manchester, Fiji, US Open and the upcoming Youth Olympics in China. \u201cIt is such an amazing privilege to have opportunities to officiate at different [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5910,"featured_media":6132,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6129","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\/6129","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=6129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6129\/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=6129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}