The City of Playford Tennis International will return to close the Australian Pro Tour calendar for 2019.<\/p>\n
Tennis SA and Tennis Australia, in conjunction with the City of Playford, TennisGear and Playford Tennis Club, will host the Australian Pro Tour event from Monday 28 October 2019 to Sunday 3 November 2019.<\/p>\n
In a coup for the event, the Women\u2019s ITF World Tennis Tour component has been increased to USD$60,000 prizemoney for the first time in the event\u2019s history, to sit alongside the Men\u2019s Challenger tournament taking the total prizemoney pool to over AUD$160,000.<\/p>\n
The event has in the past attracted the likes of current world No.13\u00a0Daniil Medvedev<\/strong> (RUS), former world No.2 Vera Zvonareva<\/strong> (RUS) and South Australia\u2019s very own world No.135\u00a0Alex Bolt. <\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cWe are delighted to host another City of Playford Tennis International at the Playford City Tennis Centre in 2019, a superb venue which the players really enjoy competing at,\u201d said Tennis Australia\u2019s Head of Tournaments and Officiating, Isabelle Gemmel.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n City of Playford Mayor Glenn Docherty<\/strong> says the tournament in the heart of Playford\u2019s Sports Precinct is one of the highlights of the city\u2019s sporting calendar.<\/p>\n \u201cOur Council is excited to be hosting the third City of Playford Tennis International, late in 2019.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThe feedback we received from players, business, tourism operators and attendees was fantastic and local shops enjoyed increased trade and foot traffic during the top-quality sporting event.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cTennis SA is thrilled to confirm that the City of Playford Tennis International will return again in 2019,\u201d said Tennis SA CEO Steven Baldas. <\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cA sincere thank you goes to the City of Playford, TennisGear and Playford Tennis Club for their unwavering support of this tournament. This event continues to go from strength-to-strength and we are excited to see the tournament grow again later this year.\u201d<\/p>\n The field for the City of Playford Tennis International will be announced in October 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The City of Playford Tennis International will return to close the Australian Pro Tour calendar for 2019. Tennis SA and Tennis Australia, in conjunction with the City of Playford, TennisGear and Playford Tennis Club, will host the Australian Pro Tour event from Monday 28 October 2019 to Sunday 3 November 2019. In a coup for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5736,"featured_media":16716,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18228","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\/18228","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=18228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18228\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}