{"id":14132,"date":"2017-12-15T11:13:10","date_gmt":"2017-12-15T00:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/?p=14132"},"modified":"2017-12-15T11:13:10","modified_gmt":"2017-12-15T00:43:10","slug":"bryan-brothers-to-kick-off-wtc-city-of-playford-kids-tennis-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/news\/2017\/12\/15\/bryan-brothers-to-kick-off-wtc-city-of-playford-kids-tennis-day","title":{"rendered":"Bryan brothers to kick off WTC City of Playford Kids Tennis Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the world\u2019s most successful doubles pairings of all time, <strong>Bob and Mike Bryan<\/strong>, are set to headline the <strong>WTC City of Playford Kids Tennis Day<\/strong> at the <strong>City of Playford Tennis International<\/strong> on Sunday 7 January.<\/p>\n<p>The Bryan brothers spent a record 438 weeks as the co-world No.1s in doubles, capturing 114 titles in 169 finals.<\/p>\n<p>Together the brothers have won 16 Grand Slam titles and are the only team in the Open Era to have held all four Grand Slam titles at the same time.<\/p>\n<p>The WTC City of Playford Kids Tennis Day to be held from 9.30 am-10.30 am at the brand-new $8.9 million Playford City Tennis Centre, followed by the men\u2019s and women\u2019s singles finals of the City of Playford Tennis International.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are thrilled that the Bryan brothers will be joining us on finals day at the City of Playford Tennis International,\u201d said Tennis SA CEO <strong>Steven Baldas. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe encourage all kids to visit the WTC City of Playford Kids Tennis Day for their opportunity to meet Bob and Mike, as well as watch some fantastic tennis on Centre Court afterwards,\u201d Baldas added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a major coup for the City of Playford and we couldn\u2019t be more excited to be welcoming one of the most successful doubles pairs of all time to visit our region,\u201d said Playford Mayor<strong> Glenn Docherty.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Following their appearance at the City of Playford Tennis International, the Bryan Brothers will take their place in Team USA alongside legend <strong>Andre Agassi<\/strong> and up-and-coming youngster <strong>Frances Tiafoe<\/strong> at the <strong>World Tennis Challenge<\/strong> to be held at Memorial Drive from 8 to 10 January 2018.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the world\u2019s most successful doubles pairings of all time, Bob and Mike Bryan, are set to headline the WTC City of Playford Kids Tennis Day at the City of Playford Tennis International on Sunday 7 January. The Bryan brothers spent a record 438 weeks as the co-world No.1s in doubles, capturing 114 titles [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5736,"featured_media":14133,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14132","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\/14132","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=14132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14132\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}