{"id":27444,"date":"2025-10-17T14:26:50","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T03:26:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nsw\/?p=27444"},"modified":"2025-10-20T15:19:27","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T04:19:27","slug":"inaugural-all-abilities-week-hits-nsw-tennis-courts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nsw\/news\/2025\/10\/17\/inaugural-all-abilities-week-hits-nsw-tennis-courts","title":{"rendered":"Inaugural All Abilities Week Hits NSW Tennis Courts!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tennis NSW is excited to celebrate and take part in the inaugural All Abilities Week which runs from 20-26 October 2025.<\/p>\n<p>The national initiative marks a dedicated moment in the tennis calendar to celebrate and raise awareness of inclusion in tennis, while creating more opportunities for people with disability both on and off the court.<\/p>\n<p>The week will highlight and expand participation across five streams of play &#8211; wheelchair tennis, blind and low vision tennis, intellectual disability and autism tennis, deaf and hard and hearing tennis and para-standing tennis.<\/p>\n<p>The theme for this year is\u00a0Education and Awareness within the Tennis Community, with a focus on increasing venue accessibility profiles for clubs and venues to complete, delivering immersive play experiences for players with disability and celebrating the inclusive spirit of tennis across the country.<\/p>\n<p>All Abilities Week will shine a light on the coaches, clubs and venues already championing disability inclusion across Australia, while supporting Tennis Australia&#8217;s Game On strategy and our ambition to be Australia&#8217;s most reflective and widely played sport.<\/p>\n<p>Become involved during the week by attending an event at one of the below NSW clubs or venues!<\/p>\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse;width: 100%;height: 387px\">\n<tbody>\n<tr style=\"height: 46px\">\n<td style=\"width: 25%;height: 46px\"><strong>Venue\/Club:<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 25%;height: 46px\"><strong>Date:<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 41.6666%;height: 46px\"><strong>Adaptive Tennis on offer:<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 8.33342%;height: 46px\"><strong>Contact details:<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 295px\">\n<td style=\"width: 25%;height: 295px\">Milton Ulladulla Tennis Centre\/ Clubhouse Tennis<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 25%;height: 295px\" width=\"251\">\n<p>Sunday 19 October<\/p>\n<p>10am-11am (Coaches Workshop)<\/p>\n<p>11am-2pm (Community Open Court)<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 41.6666%;height: 295px\">\n<ul>\n<li>Blind &amp; Low Vision<\/li>\n<li>Wheelchair<\/li>\n<li>Para Standing<\/li>\n<li>Intellectual Disability &amp; Autism<\/li>\n<li>Deaf &amp; Hard of Hearing<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 8.33342%;height: 295px\" width=\"393\">Daniel Jones: daniel@clubhousetennis.com.au<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 23px\">\n<td style=\"width: 25%;height: 23px\">City Community Tennis<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 25%;height: 23px\">\n<p>Saturday 25 October<\/p>\n<p>2-5pm<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 41.6666%;height: 23px\">\n<ul>\n<li>Blind &amp; Low Vision<\/li>\n<li>Wheelchair<\/li>\n<li>Para Standing<\/li>\n<li>Intellectual Disability &amp; Autism<\/li>\n<li>Deaf &amp; Hard of Hearing<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 8.33342%;height: 23px\">Marita Morgan: marita@citycommunitytennis.com.au<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 23px\">\n<td style=\"width: 25%;height: 23px\">Collaroy Tennis Club &amp; Evolve Tennis Academy<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 25%;height: 23px\">Sunday 26 October 12pm onwards\u00a0<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 41.6666%;height: 23px\">\n<ul>\n<li>Blind &amp; Low Vision<\/li>\n<li>Wheelchair<\/li>\n<li>Para Standing<\/li>\n<li>Intellectual Disability &amp; Autism<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 8.33342%;height: 23px\">\n<p>Dave Keogh: david@vida.com.au<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 25%\">Voyager Tennis Willoughby<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 25%\">Sunday October 26<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 41.6666%\">\n<ul>\n<li>Blind &amp; Low Vision<\/li>\n<li>Wheelchair<\/li>\n<li>Para Standing<\/li>\n<li>Intellectual Disability &amp; Autism<\/li>\n<li>Deaf &amp; Hard of Hearing<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 8.33342%\">\n<p>Lochie: lochie@voyagertennis.com<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 25%\">Complete Tennis Wollongong<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 25%\">\u00a0<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 41.6666%\">\u00a0<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 8.33342%\">\n<p>completetennis@optusnet.com.au<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tennis NSW is excited to celebrate and take part in the inaugural All Abilities Week which runs from 20-26 October 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6323,"featured_media":27445,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27444","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\/27444","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\/6323"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nsw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nsw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27444\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nsw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nsw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nsw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nsw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}