{"id":5033,"date":"2014-01-13T12:46:54","date_gmt":"2014-01-13T03:16:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/?p=5033"},"modified":"2014-01-13T12:46:54","modified_gmt":"2014-01-13T03:16:54","slug":"murray-to-represent-alice-springs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/news\/2014\/01\/13\/murray-to-represent-alice-springs","title":{"rendered":"Murray to represent Alice Springs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>He may never have been to Alice Springs but World number four, Andy Murray (GBR) will be playing for Alice Springs at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ausopen.com\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong><em>Australian Open 2014<\/em><\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Alice Springs finished seventh on the <em>Top Tennis Towns<\/em> leader board for the <a href=\"http:\/\/aoblitz.com.au\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>AO Blitz<\/strong><\/em><\/a>, an interactive online competition that invites individuals, schools and clubs to take on a series of fun challenges and win great prizes. The town with the winning Men&#8217;s and Women&#8217;s Champions will receive a community party for the entire town, while the leading point&#8217;s earner from the town will receive a $10,000 ANZ Access Advantage Account.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0091d2\"><strong>NT towns being represented at the Australian Open 2014 include<\/strong><\/span>:<br \/>\n<strong>Palmerston<\/strong>: represented by Women&#8217;s 12th seed Roberta Vinci of Italy<br \/>\n<strong>Coconut Grove<\/strong>: represented by Men&#8217;s 19th seed Kevin Anderson of South Africa<br \/>\n<strong>Nhulunbuy<\/strong>: represented by Women&#8217;s player Mirjana Lucic-Baroni of Croatia<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #e10073\">Day 1 action, Monday 13 January:<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n[12] Roberta Vinci (Palmerston) v Jie Zheng (Loxton, SA)<br \/>\n[19] Kevin Anderson (Coconut Grove) v Jiri Vesely (Duncraig, WA)<br \/>\nMirjana Lucic-Baroni (Nhulunbuy) v [15] Sabine Lisicki (Picton, NSW)<br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color: #e10073\">Day 2 action, Tuesday 14 January:<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n[4] Andy Murray (Alice Springs) v\u00a0Go Soeda (Alfred Cove, WA)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He may never have been to Alice Springs but World number four, Andy Murray (GBR) will be playing for Alice Springs at the Australian Open 2014. Alice Springs finished seventh on the Top Tennis Towns leader board for the AO Blitz, an interactive online competition that invites individuals, schools and clubs to take on a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5924,"featured_media":5036,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[61,154,150,10,72,7],"class_list":["post-5033","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-tennis-alice-springs","tag-tennis-gove","tag-tennis-palmerston"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5033","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=5033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5033\/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=5033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}