{"id":3928,"date":"2012-10-24T13:14:35","date_gmt":"2012-10-24T03:44:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/?p=3928"},"modified":"2012-10-24T13:14:35","modified_gmt":"2012-10-24T03:44:35","slug":"grand-slam-opportunity-for-alice-springs-officials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/news\/2012\/10\/24\/grand-slam-opportunity-for-alice-springs-officials","title":{"rendered":"Grand Slam Opportunity for Alice Springs Officials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Northern Territory will have its first taste of the elite tennis world when two Alice Springs line umpires, Gary Bigg and Leanne Usher travel to Melbourne for the <span style=\"color: #0091d2\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.australianopen.com\/en_AU\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">2013 Australian Open <\/a><\/strong><span style=\"color: #000000\">(14 &#8211; 27 Jan).<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>This is a giant step from their local Pro Tour, the <span style=\"color: #0091d2\"><em>Alice Springs Tennis International<\/em><\/span>, but Bigg and Usher are no strangers to the big stage;<\/p>\n<p>Bigg called lines for John McEnroe and Henri Leconte at the 2012 <a href=\"http:\/\/worldtennischallenge.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong><span style=\"color: #0091d2\">World Tennis Challenge<\/span><\/strong> <\/a>in Adelaide while Usher was at the 2012 Caloundra Challenger in Queensland, calling lines for future Australian stars; Sam Groth, Marinko Matosevic and Luke Saville.<\/p>\n<p>Usher will also get the chance to warm up the vocals and hand signals before the Australian Open when she attends the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brisbaneinternational.com.au\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong><span style=\"color: #0091d2\">Brisbane International<\/span><\/strong> <\/a>(30 Dec &#8211; 6 Jan) which forms part of the Australian Open Series leading into the first Grand Slam\u00ae of the year.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3930\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/files\/2012\/10\/Bigg.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"205\" height=\"178\" \/><br \/>\n<strong>Gary Bigg<\/strong> in action at the 2012 <span style=\"color: #0091d2\"><em>Alice Springs Tennis International<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3931\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/files\/2012\/10\/Usher.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"205\" height=\"153\" \/><br \/>\n<strong>Leanne Usher<\/strong> in action at the 2012 <em><span style=\"color: #0091d2\">Caloundra Challenger<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Northern Territory will have its first taste of the elite tennis world when two Alice Springs line umpires, Gary Bigg and Leanne Usher travel to Melbourne for the 2013 Australian Open (14 &#8211; 27 Jan). This is a giant step from their local Pro Tour, the Alice Springs Tennis International, but Bigg and Usher [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5924,"featured_media":2335,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[61,66,101,127,10],"class_list":["post-3928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-alice-springs-tennis-association","tag-alice-springs-tennis-international","tag-australian-open-2013","tag-officials","tag-tennis-alice-springs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5924"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3928\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}