{"id":6297,"date":"2014-10-13T08:54:09","date_gmt":"2014-10-12T22:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/?p=6297"},"modified":"2014-10-13T08:54:09","modified_gmt":"2014-10-12T22:54:09","slug":"win-a-wildcard-melba-tennis-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/news\/2014\/10\/13\/win-a-wildcard-melba-tennis-club","title":{"rendered":"Win A Wildcard &#8211; Melba Tennis Club"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to all players who competed in the Win A Wildcard event held at Melba Tennis Club on Saturday the 11<sup>th<\/sup> of October.\u00a0 The Melba Tennis Club committee and volunteers were out early setting up the venue and preparing to put on a\u00a0fantastic event.\u00a0 Some exceptional tennis skills were on display as players competed for a chance to head to\u00a0Melbourne and play for a Wildcard into the 2015 Australian Open Mixed Doubles.<\/p>\n<p>First up in the morning was the Set Grade (B Grade) event, which was taken out by Asheek Khan and Penny Phung who narrowly defeated Henry Baumeister &amp; Narelle Sykes 4-2 in the final.\u00a0Khan and Phung will now have the chance to compete for the B Grade title in Melbourne. &#8220;We are from Melbourne so we are very excited to head home to compete&#8221; said Phung.<\/p>\n<p>The Match Grade (A Grade) players then took to the court for an exciting afternoon of hard fought tennis. The Match Grade event was won by crowd favourites from Melba Tennis Club, Christian\u00a0Parker and Sarina Kang. Parker and Sang\u00a0defeated Jake Lalliard and Izzy D&#8217;Ambrosio 4-1 in the final. Parker believes &#8220;the competition in Melbourne will be tough&#8221; but\u00a0he is\u00a0looking forward to the challenge.<\/p>\n<p>The Melba event was the first of two tournaments to be held in Canberra, with the second event set to take place on Sunday the 19th October at Mpowerdome in Fadden. Entries are still open for all grades, so for your chance to Win a Wildcard and a great day of mixed doubles &#8211; Enter Now at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.winawildcard.aoblitz.com.au\">www.winawildcard.aoblitz.com.au<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A special thank you<b> <\/b>to the Melba Tennis Club<strong> <\/strong>Committee and Members who did a wonderful job of looking\u00a0after the players and spectators. Thank you for your assistance with the event and for\u00a0providing the fantastic catering and\u00a0venue.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/winawildcard.aoblitz.com.au\/event\/scores\">Click Here for Event Results<\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to all players who competed in the Win A Wildcard event held at Melba Tennis Club on Saturday the 11th of October.\u00a0 The Melba Tennis Club committee and volunteers were out early setting up the venue and preparing to put on a\u00a0fantastic event.\u00a0 Some exceptional tennis skills were on display as players competed for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5910,"featured_media":6308,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6297","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\/6297","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=6297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6297\/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=6297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}