{"id":5114,"date":"2014-01-22T13:39:36","date_gmt":"2014-01-22T04:09:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/?p=5114"},"modified":"2014-01-22T13:39:36","modified_gmt":"2014-01-22T04:09:36","slug":"alice-springs-ready-for-blockbuster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/news\/2014\/01\/22\/alice-springs-ready-for-blockbuster","title":{"rendered":"Alice Springs Ready for Blockbuster!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #0091d2\"><b><i>Alice Springs<\/i><\/b> <\/span>will be cheering loudly for Andy Murray on Day 10 of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ausopen.com\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\"><i>Australian Open 2014<\/i><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Murray headlines tonight&#8217;s Rod Laver Arena night session, where he plays 17-time Grand Slam\u00ae champion Roger Federer for a semi-final berth.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0091d2\"><em><strong>Alice Springs<\/strong> <\/em><\/span>tennis coach Matt Roberts admitted it was a tough draw for their <a href=\"http:\/\/aoblitz.com.au\/\" target=\"_blank\"><i>AO Blitz<\/i> <\/a>player.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<i>It is an absolute blockbuster of a match<\/i>,&#8221; he said. &#8220;<i>I&#8217;m actually feeling a bit nervous. Federer was back to his old form in the fourth round and Andy struggled a little bit<\/i>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Roberts said the match would have the town residents glued to their televisions and on the edge of their seats.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<i>Everyone in Alice Springs is watching whenever Andy is playing<\/i>,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<i>We are so lucky to have drawn someone like Andy, a three-time Australian Open finalist. His style of play suits the courts and he has a good history in the tournament, so there is no reason why he can&#8217;t beat Federer<\/i>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<i>Fingers crossed he can get through, because we have the cinema booked for Friday night so we can all watch the semi-final on the big screen together<\/i>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Murray is the last remaining player in the draw representing a Northern Territory town.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<i>It is not just for Alice Springs, he is now flying the flag for all of the Northern Territory<\/i>,&#8221; Roberts said. &#8220;<i>Three wins to go and the town party is ours<\/i>.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alice Springs will be cheering loudly for Andy Murray on Day 10 of the Australian Open 2014. Murray headlines tonight&#8217;s Rod Laver Arena night session, where he plays 17-time Grand Slam\u00ae champion Roger Federer for a semi-final berth. Alice Springs tennis coach Matt Roberts admitted it was a tough draw for their AO Blitz player. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5924,"featured_media":5115,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[61,163,154,150,10],"class_list":["post-5114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-alice-springs-tennis-association","tag-andy-murray","tag-ao-blitz","tag-australian-open-2014","tag-tennis-alice-springs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5114","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=5114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5114\/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=5114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}