{"id":7550,"date":"2024-01-15T05:58:03","date_gmt":"2024-01-14T20:28:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/?page_id=7550"},"modified":"2024-12-04T09:25:52","modified_gmt":"2024-12-03T23:55:52","slug":"officiating","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/competitive-play\/tournaments\/officiating","title":{"rendered":"Officiating"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tennis officials play a crucial role in our sport and we are always on the look-out for more people to join our crew of officials in the NT. There are volunteer and paid opportunities for officials year-round at community tennis tournaments all the way to professional standard tournaments. We are proud to say that one of our local officials, Greg Dickson, is a nominee for the Official of the Year award at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/news\/2024\/11\/20\/three-nt-finalists-are-in-the-running-for-the-2024-australian-tennis-awards-newcombe-medal\">2024 Australian Tennis Awards<\/a> to be held in December.<\/p>\n<h3>WHO CAN BECOME AN NT OFFICIAL?<\/h3>\n<p>We are looking for enthusiastic people who fit the following criteria:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Aged 15+<\/li>\n<li>Have a passion for tennis<\/li>\n<li>Have a good general knowledge of tennis or are happy to do training to gain more knowledge<\/li>\n<li>Share the values of Tennis Australia, which are Imagination, Collaboration, Excellence &amp; Humility<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/learn\/ballkids-officials-coaches-and-volunteers\/officiating\/types-of-tennis-official\">Click here to learn about the different types of officials.<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>HOW DO I BECOME AN OFFICIAL?<\/h3>\n<p>Getting started is easy, and we\u2019re welcoming new people all the time. Get in touch with us at tennisnt@tennis.com.au to find out about opportunities, which roles are volunteer versus which are paid, and to have a chat about what your development will look like in action.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Step 1<\/strong>:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/learn\/ballkids-officials-coaches-and-volunteers\/officiating\/training-courses\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Complete a Tennis Officiating Program<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Step 2:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/learn\/ballkids-officials-coaches-and-volunteers\/officiating\/membership\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Become a Tennis Australia Officiating Member<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Step 3<\/strong>: Gain your Accreditation<\/p>\n<p><strong>Step 4<\/strong>: Continue to develop and improve your skills while servicing the sport and helping to grow the game of tennis.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-7564\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/files\/2024\/01\/352755995_731496105645608_6616829466235147598_n-1-700x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"528\" height=\"340\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/files\/2024\/01\/352755995_731496105645608_6616829466235147598_n-1-700x450.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/files\/2024\/01\/352755995_731496105645608_6616829466235147598_n-1-200x128.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 528px) 100vw, 528px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tennis officials play a crucial role in our sport and we are always on the look-out for more people to join our crew of officials in the NT. There are volunteer and paid opportunities for officials year-round at community tennis tournaments all the way to professional standard tournaments. We are proud to say that one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6376,"featured_media":8339,"parent":7504,"menu_order":20,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-7550","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6376"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7550\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7504"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}