{"id":4068,"date":"2012-11-23T11:26:16","date_gmt":"2012-11-23T01:56:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/?p=4068"},"modified":"2012-11-23T11:26:16","modified_gmt":"2012-11-23T01:56:16","slug":"proposed-atl-format-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/news\/2012\/11\/23\/proposed-atl-format-competition","title":{"rendered":"Proposed ATL Format Competition ?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tennis NT is proposing a similar mid-week modified competition to the <span style=\"color: #0091d2\"><strong>Asia-Pacific Tennis League <\/strong><\/span>in the first half of 2013:<\/p>\n<p>&gt; 4 player teams<br \/>\n&gt; Best of three sets [first to 4 games]<br \/>\n&gt; one singles &amp; one doubles<br \/>\n&gt; no-ad scoring and a variety of other innovative concepts, which will be revealed in the lead-up to the competition, all driven at making the game exciting for both the players and the spectators<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0091d2\"><strong>Background Information<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<span style=\"color: #0091d2\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/competitions\/asia-pacific-tennis-league\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #0091d2\"><strong>Asia-Pacific Tennis League<\/strong> <\/span><\/a><\/span>or <strong><span style=\"color: #0091d2\">ATL<\/span><\/strong> consists of five conferences (NSW\/ACT, QLD, SA, VIC and WA) made up of 28 Men\u2019s and 28 Women\u2019s teams competing for their conference championship during November 2012.<\/p>\n<p>Conference champions progress to the ATL Play-offs, which will be hosted at Melbourne Park during the second week of the Australian Open.<\/p>\n<p>To learn more about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/competitions\/asia-pacific-tennis-league\" target=\"_blank\">ATL check out the website <\/a>which includes:<br \/>\n&gt; Information on conferences and fixtures<br \/>\n&gt; Results and Statistics<br \/>\n&gt; News and FAQs<br \/>\n&gt; Terms and Conditions<\/p>\n<p>You can also check out the weekly wrap up,\u00a0<span style=\"color: #0091d2\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/competitions\/asia-pacific-tennis-league\/videos\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>The <\/strong><strong>ATL Show\u00a0<\/strong><\/a><\/span>with Peter Marcato and David Bidmeade (Finalist 2012 SKYCITY Darwin Open)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tennis NT is proposing a similar mid-week modified competition to the Asia-Pacific Tennis League in the first half of 2013: &gt; 4 player teams &gt; Best of three sets [first to 4 games] &gt; one singles &amp; one doubles &gt; no-ad scoring and a variety of other innovative concepts, which will be revealed in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5924,"featured_media":4069,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[138],"class_list":["post-4068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-atl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4068","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=4068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4068\/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=4068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}