{"id":5444,"date":"2014-05-21T13:05:28","date_gmt":"2014-05-21T03:35:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/?p=5444"},"modified":"2014-05-21T13:05:28","modified_gmt":"2014-05-21T03:35:28","slug":"ja-visits-darwin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/news\/2014\/05\/21\/ja-visits-darwin","title":{"rendered":"JA visits Darwin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Australian tennis great and the current Federal Member for Bennelong in New South Wales, John &#8220;JA&#8221; Alexander OAM \u00a0MP \u00a0was on hand at AWOF Sports to have a hit and provide some tips to some of Darwin&#8217;s aspiring junior players.<\/p>\n<p>Alexander is currently in Darwin for the Tourism and Transport Forum.<\/p>\n<p>John Alexander, better know as &#8220;JA&#8221; had \u00a0a professional tennis career spanning from the late 1960s to the mid 1980s. In that time he reached a carer-high ranking of No.4 in 1975 and claimed two Grand Slam doubles titles at the Australian Open in &#8217;75 (with Phil Dent) and &#8217;82 (with John Fitzgerald).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/files\/2014\/05\/JAc.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-5448\" alt=\"JAc\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/files\/2014\/05\/JAc-72x72.jpg\" width=\"72\" height=\"72\" \/><\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/files\/2014\/05\/JA.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-5445\" alt=\"JA\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/files\/2014\/05\/JA-72x72.jpg\" width=\"72\" height=\"72\" \/><\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/files\/2014\/05\/JAa.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-5446\" alt=\"JAa\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/files\/2014\/05\/JAa-72x72.jpg\" width=\"72\" height=\"72\" \/><\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/files\/2014\/05\/JAb.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-5447\" alt=\"JAb\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/files\/2014\/05\/JAb-72x72.jpg\" width=\"72\" height=\"72\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australian tennis great and the current Federal Member for Bennelong in New South Wales, John &#8220;JA&#8221; Alexander OAM \u00a0MP \u00a0was on hand at AWOF Sports to have a hit and provide some tips to some of Darwin&#8217;s aspiring junior players. Alexander is currently in Darwin for the Tourism and Transport Forum. John Alexander, better know [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5924,"featured_media":5447,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[8,181],"class_list":["post-5444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-awof-sports","tag-john-alexander"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5444","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=5444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5444\/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=5444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}