{"id":8678,"date":"2025-09-09T15:25:02","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T05:55:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/?p=8678"},"modified":"2025-09-19T16:34:49","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T07:04:49","slug":"back-2-back-womens-pro-tennis-events-in-darwin-starts-during-school-holidays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/news\/2025\/09\/09\/back-2-back-womens-pro-tennis-events-in-darwin-starts-during-school-holidays","title":{"rendered":"Back-2-Back Women&#8217;s Pro Tennis Events in Darwin Starts During School Holidays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8736\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/files\/2025\/09\/PT-Email-Header.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1875\" height=\"625\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/files\/2025\/09\/PT-Email-Header.png 1875w, https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/files\/2025\/09\/PT-Email-Header-1024x341.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/files\/2025\/09\/PT-Email-Header-768x256.png 768w, https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/files\/2025\/09\/PT-Email-Header-1536x512.png 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1875px) 100vw, 1875px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Darwin tennis fans are set for a fortnight of action with &#8216;HIT after HIT&#8217; of professional women&#8217;s tournaments running from September 28th to October 12th at the Darwin International Tennis Centre in Marrara!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Aspiring professional tennis players will not\u00a0only compete for a portion of the prize money, but also the opportunity to accumulate world ranking points to qualify for wildcards to Grand Slam events \u2013 where you can see them play on the big screen!<\/p>\n<p>beIN sports will also be live streaming the event on their platform. Be sure to keep a look out for the upcoming matches! Australian Pro Tour streaming link\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/connect-au.beinsports.com\/en\/competition\/australian-pro-tour\"><strong>HERE<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A total prize pool of <em><strong>$35,000 USD<\/strong><\/em> in prize money is on offer for each event.<\/p>\n<p>Spectators are welcome to witness &#8216;greats in the making&#8217;, with <em><strong>FREE ENTRY <\/strong><\/em>to watch Live Women&#8217;s Tennis from 3pm daily.<\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The event is also an important opportunity for the NT Ball Kids to gain valuable match experience ahead of selection for the <em><strong>Top Gun Ballkid Program<\/strong> <\/em>held at the 2026 Australian Open.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><strong>Key Dates<\/strong><\/h5>\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse;width: 98.3334%\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 165.852%\" colspan=\"2\"><strong>Darwin International &#8211; September 28 to October 5th<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 26.0755%\">Singles Semi-finals<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 139.777%\">October 4th<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 26.0755%\">Doubles Final<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 139.777%\">October 4th<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 26.0755%\">Singles Final<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 139.777%\">October 5th<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 26.0755%\"><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 139.777%\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 165.852%\" colspan=\"2\"><strong>NT International &#8211; October 5th to September 12th<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 26.0755%\">Singles Semi-finals<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 139.777%\">October 11th<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 26.0755%\">Doubles Final<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 139.777%\">October 11th<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 26.0755%\">Singles Final<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 139.777%\">October 12th<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.itftennis.com\/en\/tournament\/w35-darwin\/aus\/2025\/w-itf-aus-2025-011\/\">Entry &amp; Factsheet<\/a> for the Darwin International (women&#8217;s event)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.itftennis.com\/en\/tournament\/w35-darwin\/aus\/2025\/w-itf-aus-2025-012\/\">Entry &amp; Factsheet<\/a> for the NT International (women&#8217;s event)<\/p>\n<p>A special thanks to our partnered hotel <a href=\"https:\/\/argusaccommodation.com.au\/?gad_source=1&amp;gad_campaignid=20815354923&amp;gclid=EAIaIQobChMI-eqszZ3kjwMVl5GmAx27KzQ2EAAYASAAEgKPMfD_BwE\"><strong>Argus Accommodation Darwin<\/strong><\/a> who are providing discounted rates for travelling players for these upcoming events. If you are interested in staying at Argus Accommodation Darwin, please contact us for the discount code!<\/p>\n<p><strong>There will be other off-court activities and prizes to be won by the public during the Sunday Slam (5th of October, from 1pm).<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>More information available through the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/740581355426915\"><strong>Facebook Event<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Be sure to come down and not miss out!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Darwin tennis fans are set for a fortnight of action with &#8216;HIT after HIT&#8217; of professional women&#8217;s tournaments running from September 28th to October 12th at the Darwin International Tennis Centre in Marrara! Aspiring professional tennis players will not\u00a0only compete for a portion of the prize money, but also the opportunity to accumulate world ranking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8678","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\/6427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8678\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}