{"id":7976,"date":"2024-07-13T13:00:12","date_gmt":"2024-07-13T03:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/?p=7976"},"modified":"2024-07-13T20:43:08","modified_gmt":"2024-07-13T11:13:08","slug":"nt-juniors-shine-at-the-rafa-nadal-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/news\/2024\/07\/13\/nt-juniors-shine-at-the-rafa-nadal-tour","title":{"rendered":"NT juniors shine at the Rafa Nadal Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are proud of NT locals, Grace HARRIS, who took the winners trophy in the girls 14\/u division, and\u00a0Ethan HARKER who won the award for demonstrating the Rafa Nadal values in the boys 14\/u division. As a result, both HARRIS and HARKER get to play in the Australian Rafa Nadal Masters hosted in Melbourne in January 2025!<\/p>\n<p>The Rafa Nadal Tour was hosted for the third time in Darwin, at the Darwin International Tennis Centre in Marrara. There were boys and girls divisions playing across\u00a0the 12s, 14s &amp; 16s age groups<\/p>\n<p>The Rafa Nadal junior tennis tour launched in Spain in 2014. It is special because it combines tennis with educational activities, focussed on Rafa&#8217;s key values which help players be a better player on the court, and a better person off the court. Those values are: humility, resilience, commitment, sportsmanship.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Rafa Nadal Tour Pathway<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The age group winners from this event are entered into the Australian Rafa Nadal Masters hosted in Melbourne in January 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Also, each gender and age division has a Trophy of Values awarded to a person who demonstrates the Rafa Nadal values on and off the court. The values winners also get an entry into the Australian Rafa Nadal Masters.<\/p>\n<p>From the participants at the Masters event, a select few get the chance to attend the\u00a0Rafa Nadal Academy in Mallorca for two weeks of training and an unforgettable experience later in 2025 (subject to confirmation).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are proud of NT locals, Grace HARRIS, who took the winners trophy in the girls 14\/u division, and\u00a0Ethan HARKER who won the award for demonstrating the Rafa Nadal values in the boys 14\/u division. As a result, both HARRIS and HARKER get to play in the Australian Rafa Nadal Masters hosted in Melbourne in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6380,"featured_media":7979,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7976","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\/6380"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7976\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}