{"id":5026,"date":"2014-01-10T11:52:34","date_gmt":"2014-01-10T02:22:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/?p=5026"},"modified":"2014-01-10T11:52:34","modified_gmt":"2014-01-10T02:22:34","slug":"jemma-blitzs-the-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/news\/2014\/01\/10\/jemma-blitzs-the-competition","title":{"rendered":"Jemma Blitz’s the Competition"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tennis Palmerston up and coming junior, Jemma Gossow was the highest points earner nationally, based on the player leader board on the AO Blitz website<\/em> <\/strong><\/a>as at 31 December 2013.<\/p>\n

9-year-old Gossow collected an impressive 1,291,005 points in a variety of Challenges to finish atop of the leader board, some 49,000 points ahead of second place. For her efforts she has won two tickets each to the Australia Open 2014<\/strong> <\/em><\/a>Men’s and Women’s final, with accommodation and flights presented by Steggles.<\/p>\n

Gossow’s biggest achievement was raising over $2,200 for the National Breast Cancer Foundation and Prostate Foundation Australia for getting her family and friends to sponsor the waxing of her father’s hairy legs. Overall Gossow raised an incredible $6,290, the second highest individual fundraiser in the country and the youngest fundraiser overall.<\/p>\n

Tennis Palmerston coaches Sam Giess and Daniel Parker (pictured) also got behind Jemma’s fundraising, with both coaches committing to shaving their heads at $2,000 and also their legs at $3,000. Needless to say both coaches will be applying the sunscreen a little bit more this term.<\/p>\n

“I have loved every bit of the AO Blitz, the challenges were awesome and some were hard”<\/em><\/p>\n

Jemma’s local club, Tennis Palmerston<\/strong> <\/em><\/a>also finished atop of the standings in the NT Club with the most points; they finished 6th<\/sup> National and just edged out the Alice Springs Tennis Association<\/strong> <\/em><\/a>who finished in 7th<\/sup> position.<\/p>\n

Top NT\u00a0finishers nationally in the AO Blitz:<\/p>\n

Top Players<\/strong><\/em><\/span>
\n1. Jemma Gossow – Tennis Palmerston
\n19. Jemima Torres – Gardens Tennis
\n26. Nicolas Tremblay – AWOF Sports<\/p>\n

Top Tennis Towns<\/strong><\/em><\/span>
\n7. Alice Springs
\n24. Palmerston
\n37. Coconut Grove<\/p>\n

Top Clubs<\/strong><\/em><\/span>
\n6. Tennis Palmerston
\n7. Alice Springs Tennis Association
\n160. Tennis Alice Springs<\/p>\n

Top Schools<\/strong><\/em><\/span>
\n22. OLSH Traeger Campus, Alice Springs
\n27. Ross Park Primary School, Alice Springs
\n37. OLSH Sadadeen, Alice Springs<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tennis Palmerston up and coming junior, Jemma Gossow was the highest points earner nationally, based on the player leader board on the AO Blitz website as at 31 December 2013. 9-year-old Gossow collected an impressive 1,291,005 points in a variety of Challenges to finish atop of the leader board, some 49,000 points ahead of second […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5924,"featured_media":5027,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[61,154,150,160,161,162,7],"class_list":["post-5026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-alice-springs-tennis-association","tag-ao-blitz","tag-australian-open-2014","tag-national-breast-cancer-foundation","tag-prostate-foundation-australia","tag-steggles","tag-tennis-palmerston"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5026","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=5026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5026\/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=5026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}