{"id":9766,"date":"2016-11-01T15:33:43","date_gmt":"2016-11-01T04:33:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/?p=9766"},"modified":"2017-01-16T14:09:56","modified_gmt":"2017-01-16T03:09:56","slug":"masur-visits-canberra-international","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/news\/2016\/11\/01\/masur-visits-canberra-international","title":{"rendered":"Masur visits Canberra Pro Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Canberra tennis great, former World No. 15 and 2016 inaugural inductee to the recently installed<em> Tennis ACT Walk of Fame<\/em>, <strong>Wally Masur<\/strong>, visited the new historical landmark he is now a part of today and watched some of the live action at the <strong>Apis Canberra International<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Masur raved about the Canberra tennis community and the redeveloped centre in Lyneham.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I was young, playing tennis in Canberra, it was a really strong tennis scene,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs a kid I played a lot of tennis at Lyneham,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s taken a lot of years, but we\u2019ve got a world class facility in Canberra.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Masur also said\u00a0it\u2019s nice to check in on Australian players he\u2019s familiar with, such as World No. 99 <strong>Jordan Thompson <\/strong>(NSW) and World No. 164 <strong>James Duckworth <\/strong>(NSW), as well as emerging players like <strong>Max Purcell<\/strong> (NSW).<\/p>\n<p>When asked how he felt to be inducted into the <em>Tennis ACT Walk of Fame<\/em>, he was determined to talk about the support he\u2019s received from the Canberra tennis community over the years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would have to say that the city of Canberra was pretty beneficial,\u201d he said. \u201cMore than just moral support, there was financial support. So, the fact that I ended up having a good career and I\u2019ve got a star in the Walk of Fame, I\u2019ve got a lot to thank Canberra for.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Masur has high hopes for the future of tennis in Canberra, commenting on the successes of Canberra locals, World No. 13 <strong>Nick Kyrgios<\/strong> and 13-year-old junior talent\u00a0<strong>Annerly Poulos<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s kind of like a big country town,\u201d he said about Canberra. \u201cI think it\u2019s a really good place to nurture sporting talent.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Part of the Australian Pro Tour series, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/tournaments\/pro-tournaments\/australian-pro-tour\/canberra\">Apis Canberra International<\/a> is on now at the Canberra Tennis Centre in Lyneham until Sunday November 6.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/news-and-events\/events\/walk-of-fame\"><em>Tennis ACT Walk of Fame<\/em><\/a> is located at the entrance to the redeveloped Canberra Tennis Centre. The permanent legacy celebrates the rich sporting history of tennis in the ACT and its significance to the nation\u2019s capital.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canberra tennis great, former World No. 15 and 2016 inaugural inductee to the recently installed Tennis ACT Walk of Fame, Wally Masur, visited the new historical landmark he is now a part of today and watched some of the live action at the Apis Canberra International. Masur raved about the Canberra tennis community and the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5993,"featured_media":9770,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9766","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\/9766","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=9766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9766\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}