{"id":12937,"date":"2017-07-04T11:26:10","date_gmt":"2017-07-04T01:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/?p=12937"},"modified":"2017-07-04T11:31:21","modified_gmt":"2017-07-04T02:01:21","slug":"world-class-centre-opens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/news\/2017\/07\/04\/world-class-centre-opens","title":{"rendered":"World Class Centre Opens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Article by the <a href=\"http:\/\/messenger.newspaperdirect.com\/epaper\/viewer.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Northern Messenger<\/a>, pg 25, June 14<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Playford City Tennis Centre has been described as world class and among the best in Australia by the facility\u2019s new manager.<\/p>\n<p>TennisGear Management has been appointed to operate the Playford City Tennis Centre, which is expected to be officially opened in September. The company\u2019s director, Mark Bloomfield, visited the still-under-construction site last week and said he was excited by the prospect of what the tennis centre can bring to the region.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s absolutely wonderful to see a world-class tennis facility, one of the best I\u2019ve seen in Australia, and I\u2019m absolutely delighted to be operating it,\u201d Mr Bloomfield said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ll be activating a wide range of programs from coaching fixtures to social tennis and school activities to encourage local communities and local groups to visit and use this facility.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As part of the project, The Grove Tennis Club will relocate from the Bicentennial Tennis Centre, which has been sold for the expansion of the Playford City Health Precinct.<\/p>\n<p>In celebration of the new Playford City Tennis Centre, Tennis SA will host a Come &amp; Try Day at the Playford City Tennis Centre, Elizabeth East, 11am &#8211; 1pm on Saturday 15 July. Activities include Fitbit Cardio tennis, Fast4 and social tennis. Free for all ages.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Playford City Tennis Centre\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\n50 Spruance Road<br \/>\nElizabeth East<br \/>\nSA 5112<\/p>\n<p><strong>w:<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/playfordtennis.com.au\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u00a0playfordtennis.com.au<\/a><br \/>\n<strong>e:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:playford@tennisgear.com.au\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">playford@tennisgear.com.au<\/a><br \/>\n<strong>ph:\u00a0<\/strong>08 8252 1900<\/p>\n<p><strong>Facebook:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/PlayfordTennisCentre\/\">www.facebook.com\/PlayfordTennisCentre<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Article by the Northern Messenger, pg 25, June 14 The Playford City Tennis Centre has been described as world class and among the best in Australia by the facility\u2019s new manager. TennisGear Management has been appointed to operate the Playford City Tennis Centre, which is expected to be officially opened in September. The company\u2019s director, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5870,"featured_media":12938,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12937","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\/12937","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\/5870"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12937\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}