{"id":16271,"date":"2018-11-22T09:42:43","date_gmt":"2018-11-21T23:12:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/?p=16271"},"modified":"2018-11-22T09:42:43","modified_gmt":"2018-11-21T23:12:43","slug":"tennisfest-stages-grand-slam-surprise-at-cowell-area-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/news\/2018\/11\/22\/tennisfest-stages-grand-slam-surprise-at-cowell-area-school","title":{"rendered":"TennisFest stages Grand Slam surprise at Cowell Area School"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ten-year-old <strong>Eva Schmucker<\/strong> got the surprise of her life on Friday when <strong>TennisFest <\/strong>paid a surprise visit to <strong>Cowell Area School<\/strong> to announce her as the winner of a TennisFest design competition during a special school assembly.<\/p>\n<p>TennisFest is a 14-day celebration of tennis in South Australia and features 20 events and activations across the state from Thursday 15 to Wednesday 28 November 2018.<\/p>\n<p>The festival aims to showcase the player pathway and provide a variety of opportunities for people of all ages, abilities and backgrounds to get involved in tennis.<\/p>\n<p>Eva Schmucker entered the state-wide competition for five-to-12 year olds who were encouraged to design a TennisFest polo shirt.<\/p>\n<p>As part of the special Grand Slam surprise for Eva and her school, the two <strong>Australian Open trophies<\/strong>, the<strong> Norman Brookes Challenge Cup<\/strong> (men\u2019s singles) and the<strong> Daphne Akhurst Memorial Cup<\/strong> (women\u2019s singles) made a special appearance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen the Tennis SA staff were wearing my polo shirt design, I was amazed. I never knew I could win this competition,\u201d Eva said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I held the trophy for the Australian Open, I felt so lucky.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Travelling from their home at Melbourne Park, Victoria, the two Australian Open trophies were on show for local students to see up close and personal.<\/p>\n<p>Following the school assembly the students took part in an ANZ Tennis Hot Shots School Competition.<\/p>\n<p>ANZ Tennis Hot Shots School Competitions encourage participation in the sport, provide a positive experience playing tennis, grow friendships and give students the opportunity to represent their school in a team environment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are thrilled to have been able to make a special visit to Cowell to surprise Eva,\u201d said Tennis SA CEO, <strong>Steven Baldas. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe loved Eva\u2019s polo shirt design and we were excited to bring it to life.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA sincere thank you to Cowell Area School and Cowell Tennis Club for their support and for helping us bring TennisFest to Cowell.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ten-year-old Eva Schmucker got the surprise of her life on Friday when TennisFest paid a surprise visit to Cowell Area School to announce her as the winner of a TennisFest design competition during a special school assembly. TennisFest is a 14-day celebration of tennis in South Australia and features 20 events and activations across the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5736,"featured_media":16272,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16271","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\/16271","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=16271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16271\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}