{"id":12380,"date":"2016-12-09T14:59:39","date_gmt":"2016-12-09T03:59:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nsw\/?p=12380"},"modified":"2016-12-09T14:59:39","modified_gmt":"2016-12-09T03:59:39","slug":"hewitt-masur-stafford-brothers-complete-fast4-tennis-line-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nsw\/news\/2016\/12\/09\/hewitt-masur-stafford-brothers-complete-fast4-tennis-line-up","title":{"rendered":"Hewitt, Masur, Stafford Brothers complete FAST4 Tennis line-up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Australian greats <strong>Lleyton Hewitt<\/strong> and <strong>Wally Masur<\/strong> will serve as team captains for <strong>FAST4 Showdown AUS v WORLD<\/strong>, with world renowned DJ\u2019s the <strong>Stafford Brothers<\/strong> set to entertain the crowd at the International Convention Centre Sydney Theatre on Monday 9 January 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Hewitt, who has faced both <strong>Roger Federer<\/strong> (SUI) and <strong>Rafael Nadal<\/strong> (ESP) in FAST4 Tennis events in Sydney, will guide team Australia\u2019s <strong>Nick Kyrgios<\/strong> (ACT) and <strong>Bernard Tomic <\/strong>(Qld) while Masur will take the reins with team World\u2019s Nadal and <strong>Kei Nishikori<\/strong> (JPN).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s great to be part of FAST4 Tennis in Sydney again,\u201d Hewitt said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know the challenges that come with adapting to the quicker style of play and rule changes. Nick has obviously played FAST4 Tennis before but it will be Bernard\u2019s first time so I\u2019m sure we can give him a few tips before he goes out there.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s such a fun and exciting event to play in, the atmosphere is something else and I\u2019m looking forward to helping the Aussie team out where I can and making sure both they and the crowd have an incredible night.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Masur and Nishikori will be FAST4 Tennis debutants, with Nadal returning for the world team that went down to Australia in January this year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m looking forward to participating in the FAST4 Showdown AUS v WORLD event as the captain of the World team,\u201d Masur said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNadal and Nishikori are both world class athletes and tennis players and it will be an honour to captain them. I\u2019ll be immersing myself in the culture of Spain and Japan over the next few weeks!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Stafford Brothers, made up of Gold Coast DJ brothers Chris and Matt, will keep the crowd entertained between the tennis with a special set from 6.30 pm ahead of the first match, as well during breaks in play.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe had an awesome time this year and we\u2019re stoked to be part of the FAST4 Tennis night again in January,\u201d Chris said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re there to get the crowd ready and pumped and if it\u2019s anything like this year\u2019s event it\u2019s going to be an awesome night.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>FAST4 Showdown AUS v WORLD<\/strong> will take place on Monday 9 January 2017 at the <strong>International Convention Centre<\/strong>, Darling Harbour, with the NSW Government\u2019s tourism and major event\u2019s agency <strong>Destination NSW<\/strong> as strategic partner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australian greats Lleyton Hewitt and Wally Masur will serve as team captains for FAST4 Showdown AUS v WORLD, with world renowned DJ\u2019s the Stafford Brothers set to entertain the crowd at the International Convention Centre Sydney Theatre on Monday 9 January 2017. Hewitt, who has faced both Roger Federer (SUI) and Rafael Nadal (ESP) in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5788,"featured_media":12382,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nsw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nsw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nsw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nsw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5788"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nsw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nsw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12380\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nsw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nsw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nsw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nsw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}