{"id":15370,"date":"2018-07-30T11:41:23","date_gmt":"2018-07-30T02:11:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/?p=15370"},"modified":"2018-07-30T11:48:55","modified_gmt":"2018-07-30T02:18:55","slug":"elderton-tennis-classic-it-is-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/news\/2018\/07\/30\/elderton-tennis-classic-it-is-back","title":{"rendered":"Elderton Tennis Classic &#8211; it is back!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Sunday 12 November 2017 Elderton Winery held the inaugural <a href=\"https:\/\/eldertonwines.com.au\/uncategorised\/elderton-tennis-classic-game-set-match-back\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Elderton Tennis Classic<\/a>, a Fast4 event, and it was such a success &#8211; it&#8217;s back on again in 2018!<\/p>\n<p>21 teams participated \u2013 splitting into the two categories of \u2018Here to Win\u2019 and \u2018Here to Wine\u2019. Starting the day at the Nuriootpa Tennis Courts for the first of the \u2018round robin\u2019 qualifying games \u2013 many laughs, some serious faces and a little bit of grunting saw everyone having a great time. We were amazingly lucky with perfect \u2018tennis\u2019 weather, it was hot, but the cloud cover was great with no real \u2018searing\u2019 heat directly from the sun.<\/p>\n<p>Professionally facilitated by Matt Zadow and his team from the Nuriootpa Tennis Club a smooth tournament with fair games ensured everyone had an enjoyable day. With the \u2018round robin\u2019 done we all moved back to \u2018Centre Court\u2019 \u2013 the immaculate grass court at Elderton Cellar Door for the finals to begin.<\/p>\n<p>Local food and delicious Elderton Barossa wines were available, along with coffee, shakes and other refreshments to keep everyone hydrated and fed.<\/p>\n<p>With prizes available for \u2018Best Dressed\u2019 as well as other things meant players who were maybe not quite as serious about the tennis could participate with spirit and enthusiasm.<\/p>\n<p>Come and join in the fun on Sunday 11 November\u00a0 2018 to play or watch \u2013 team registrations are open now and limited \u2013 so find your mixed doubles partner and get practising.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&gt; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/news\/2018\/07\/30\/elderton-tennis-classic-it-is-back\/attachment\/2018-fast4-tennis-poster\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"attachment noopener wp-att-15375\">Event Poster<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&gt; <a href=\"https:\/\/eldertonwines.com.au\/product\/tennis\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Register your team now<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/eldertonwines.com.au\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Elderton Winery<\/a> is a proud sponsor of Tennis SA, providing generous support towards the Ken McGregor Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Sunday 12 November 2017 Elderton Winery held the inaugural Elderton Tennis Classic, a Fast4 event, and it was such a success &#8211; it&#8217;s back on again in 2018! 21 teams participated \u2013 splitting into the two categories of \u2018Here to Win\u2019 and \u2018Here to Wine\u2019. Starting the day at the Nuriootpa Tennis Courts for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5870,"featured_media":15373,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15370","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\/15370","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=15370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15370\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}