{"id":9692,"date":"2016-10-24T11:39:50","date_gmt":"2016-10-24T00:39:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/?p=9692"},"modified":"2016-10-24T11:39:50","modified_gmt":"2016-10-24T00:39:50","slug":"local-hot-shot-meets-djokovic-in-shanghai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/news\/2016\/10\/24\/local-hot-shot-meets-djokovic-in-shanghai","title":{"rendered":"Local Hot Shot meets Djokovic in Shanghai"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lucky Canberra local <strong>Caillie Warwick<\/strong> was thrilled when she won a trip to Shanghai to meet world No.1 and six-time <strong>Australian Open<\/strong> champion <strong>Novak Djokovic<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Caillie, a Sacred Heart Primary School student who plays tennis at Weston Creek Tennis Club, flew to China to hit with Djokovic at the Shanghai Rolex Masters after winning a Tennis Australia <strong>ANZ Tennis Hot Shots<\/strong> competition.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI feel so lucky to be the winner of this huge prize,\u201d Caillie said before the trip.<\/p>\n<p>Caillie was joined in Shanghai by fellow <strong>ANZ Tennis Hot Shots<\/strong>\u00a0competition winner <strong>Aston Monteleone<\/strong> (Shepparton, Victoria).<\/p>\n<p>Caillie\u2019s mother <strong>Michelle<\/strong> said the two were the happiest eight-year-olds in the world.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe two have formed a close bond after this experience that few will understand,\u201d said Michelle. \u201cIn fact after a number of hours they were behaving like brother and sister and have connected on Skype since coming home.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Michelle said Djokovic was patient and genuine with Caillie and Aston.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI had a great time having a hit with Aston and Caillie from <strong>ANZ Tennis Hot Shots<\/strong>!\u201d Djokovic said on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>Caillie and Aston were also lucky enough to toss the coin for the match between world No.2 Andy Murray and world No.24 Steve Johnson on centre court.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTennis was also going to be a game for life for me,\u201d said Michelle, \u201cbut I can safely say that it is all but guaranteed into the next generation in our family also.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In 2014, ANZ announced its sponsorship of Tennis Australia\u2019s fast-growing children\u2019s starter program, <strong>ANZ Tennis Hot Shots<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The development program is specifically designed for primary school-aged children between five to 12-years-of-age and is one of Australia\u2019s most popular sports participation programs with a record of 213,883 participants nationwide in 2015\/2016.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hotshots.tennis.com.au\/?gclid=CLvCzL6W8s8CFQqBvQodejsIOA\">Sign up for <strong>ANZ Tennis Hot Shots<\/strong> in Canberra today<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lucky Canberra local Caillie Warwick was thrilled when she won a trip to Shanghai to meet world No.1 and six-time Australian Open champion Novak Djokovic. Caillie, a Sacred Heart Primary School student who plays tennis at Weston Creek Tennis Club, flew to China to hit with Djokovic at the Shanghai Rolex Masters after winning a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5993,"featured_media":9697,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9692","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\/9692","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\/5993"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9692\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}