{"id":13284,"date":"2017-09-04T09:00:33","date_gmt":"2017-09-03T23:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/?p=13284"},"modified":"2017-09-04T12:20:25","modified_gmt":"2017-09-04T02:50:25","slug":"term-4-anz-tennis-hot-shots-match-play-orange-ball-competitions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/news\/2017\/09\/04\/term-4-anz-tennis-hot-shots-match-play-orange-ball-competitions","title":{"rendered":"Term 4 ANZTHS Match Play Orange Ball Competitions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tennis SA are excited to be running two <a href=\"https:\/\/hotshots.tennis.com.au\/about\/match-play\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ANZ Tennis Hot Shots Match Play<\/a> Orange ball competitions in Term 4, 2017. With the success and positive feedback received over the last 12 months in regards to these orange ball competitions we are thrilled to be able to offer this opportunity again to all Western Districts and Glenelg Districts clubs in Term 4 2017.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Season structure<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Matches will take place Saturday mornings at 10:30am throughout Term 4 with both competitions commencing on October 28. First round matches will be at a centralised location (venue TBC) to allow for a 10 minute parent information session prior to the beginning of matches. Both competitions will conclude on Saturday December 16 and will both take place, again, at a centralised location (venue TBC) to create a carnival atmosphere and allow for presentations and a BBQ to take place. A home and away fixture will be utilised for all other rounds.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Team and match formats<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Teams will consist of three players each week with each player playing one singles match and two doubles matches. Each match will be one set first to 4 games with matches timed at 25 minutes. This ensures each player is always playing matches as well as all matches being completed within a 90 minute time frame.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Court set up and balls<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>All matches will be played using orange balls and courts will be set out using Orange Ball guidelines.\u00a0 Parents\u2019 attendance and support at matches helps to ensure games are enjoyable, run smoothly and a family atmosphere is created.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Why Join?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>All matches will be played using orange balls and courts will be set out using Orange Ball guidelines. Parents\u2019 attendance and support at matches helps to ensure games are enjoyable, run smoothly and a family atmosphere is created.<\/p>\n<p>&gt; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/doc\/glenelg-matchplay-term-4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-12576 noopener\">Glenelg ANZTHS Match Play Orange Ball nomination and information form<\/a>\u00a0*Due by Friday\u00a020 October<\/p>\n<p>&gt; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/doc\/western-districts-term-4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-12577 noopener\">Western ANZTHS Match Play Orange Ball nomination and information form<\/a>\u00a0*Due by Friday 20 October<\/p>\n<p>For further details or if you have any questions please contact Karl Button, Leagues Coordinator at Tennis SA (<a href=\"mailto:kbutton@tennis.com.au\">kbutton@tennis.com.au<\/a> or 08 7224 8123).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tennis SA are excited to be running two ANZ Tennis Hot Shots Match Play Orange ball competitions in Term 4, 2017. With the success and positive feedback received over the last 12 months in regards to these orange ball competitions we are thrilled to be able to offer this opportunity again to all Western Districts [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5870,"featured_media":12664,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13284","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\/13284","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=13284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13284\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}