{"id":11525,"date":"2016-10-28T15:56:24","date_gmt":"2016-10-28T05:26:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/?p=11525"},"modified":"2016-10-28T15:56:24","modified_gmt":"2016-10-28T05:26:24","slug":"tennisfest-official-ambassador-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/news\/2016\/10\/28\/tennisfest-official-ambassador-announced","title":{"rendered":"TennisFest Official Ambassador announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tennis SA is thrilled to welcome <strong>The Right Honourable The Lord Mayor of Adelaide, Martin Haese<\/strong> as the\u00a0Official Ambassador for TennisFest.<\/p>\n<p>Martin was elected as Lord Mayor in 2014. As a city resident, entrepreneur and educator, he is committed to serving the City of Adelaide\u2019s residential, commercial and visitor communities.<\/p>\n<p>At 27 years of age, Martin opened his first retail store in the city and grew the business into a successful national enterprise with 220 employees. Martin studied an MBA and later became the General Manager of the Rundle Mall Management Authority.<\/p>\n<p>He co-founded the Entrepreneurs\u2019 Organisation in SA and has served on several boards including South Australian Youth Arts, Rundle Mall, Adelaide Convention Bureau and the Property Council Mainstreet Committee.<\/p>\n<p>Martin was the Chairman of the world\u2019s largest historic motoring event &#8211; The Bay to Birdwood \u2013 and, the national Chair of the Council of Capital City Lord Mayors in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Martin has also worked as a lecturer for MBA students, has travelled widely and done business internationally.<\/p>\n<p>Martin believes that technology will provide many of the solutions for many of today\u2019s problems and opportunities. As Lord Mayor, he is focused on enhancing Adelaide\u2019s reputation as a smart, sustainable and innovative city where \u2018good things happen first\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Martin\u2019s immediate goal is for Adelaide to become a smart, green, livable and creative city. The ultimate goal is to become the world\u2019s most livable city.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am thrilled to be announced as the Official Ambassador of Tennis SA\u2019s TennisFest,&#8221; Mr Haese said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;TennisFest is set to showcase a full spectrum of tennis events from 18-24 November.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;TennisFest is an excellent opportunity for current tennis players to get involved, but will also offer new events to cater for people of all ages, abilities and backgrounds.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As the Official Ambassador I am excited to be a part of such an innovative and inclusive event,\u201d Mr Haese added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tennis SA is thrilled to welcome The Right Honourable The Lord Mayor of Adelaide, Martin Haese as the\u00a0Official Ambassador for TennisFest. Martin was elected as Lord Mayor in 2014. As a city resident, entrepreneur and educator, he is committed to serving the City of Adelaide\u2019s residential, commercial and visitor communities. At 27 years of age, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5736,"featured_media":11542,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5736"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11525\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}