{"id":16564,"date":"2018-12-18T21:24:04","date_gmt":"2018-12-18T10:54:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/?p=16564"},"modified":"2018-12-18T21:24:04","modified_gmt":"2018-12-18T10:54:04","slug":"henri-leconte-to-visit-city-of-playford-tennis-international-finals-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/news\/2018\/12\/18\/henri-leconte-to-visit-city-of-playford-tennis-international-finals-day","title":{"rendered":"Henri Leconte to visit City of Playford Tennis International Finals Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former world No.5 and crowd favourite, Henri Leconte (FRA), is set to visit the <strong>City of Playford Tennis International Finals Day<\/strong> at Playford City Tennis Centre on Sunday 6 January.<\/p>\n<p>Leconte will be a special guest in the City of Playford Tennis International Kids Racquet Zone and Corporate Hospitality marquee.<\/p>\n<p>Leconte won the French Open men\u2019s doubles title in 1984, reached the men\u2019s singles final at the French Open in 1988 and was a part of the victorious French Davis Cup team in 1991.<\/p>\n<p>The City of Playford Tennis International Kids Racquet Zone is open to children between 5-12 years of age and will be held from Friday 4 to Sunday 6 January at the Playford City Tennis Centre.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are thrilled that Henri Leconte 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 Kids Racquet Zone for their opportunity to meet Henri, as well as watch some fantastic tennis on Centre Court afterwards,\u201d Baldas added.<\/p>\n<p>Following his appearance at the City of Playford Tennis International, Leconte will lead his team, including former world No.1 Victoria Azarenka and current world No.4 Alexander Zverev at the <strong>World Tennis Challenge<\/strong> to be held at Memorial Drive from Monday 7 to Tuesday 8 January 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former world No.5 and crowd favourite, Henri Leconte (FRA), is set to visit the City of Playford Tennis International Finals Day at Playford City Tennis Centre on Sunday 6 January. Leconte will be a special guest in the City of Playford Tennis International Kids Racquet Zone and Corporate Hospitality marquee. Leconte won the French Open [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5736,"featured_media":16566,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16564","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\/16564","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=16564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16564\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}