{"id":2783,"date":"2011-07-12T12:40:23","date_gmt":"2011-07-12T03:10:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/?p=2783"},"modified":"2011-07-12T12:40:23","modified_gmt":"2011-07-12T03:10:23","slug":"gawler-orange-ball-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/news\/2011\/07\/12\/gawler-orange-ball-tournament","title":{"rendered":"Adelaide&#8217;s first Orange Ball tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2831\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/news\/2011\/07\/12\/gawler-orange-ball-tournament\/attachment\/orange-ball-gawler-9-7-11-a\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/files\/2011\/07\/Orange-Ball-@-Gawler-9.7.11.a-410x298.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"410\" height=\"298\" \/><\/a><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2831\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/news\/2011\/07\/12\/gawler-orange-ball-tournament\/attachment\/orange-ball-gawler-9-7-11-a\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tennis Australia\u2019s MLC Tennis Hot Shots intro to tennis program has reached new heights with Gawler and District Tennis Association running South Australia\u2019s first Orange Ball tournament as part of their Optus Junior Tournament on Saturday 9<sup>th<\/sup> July 2011.<\/p>\n<p>The extreme fog that swept over the Gawler area on Saturday morning did not cloud enthusiasm with six participants from Eastern and Western Districts Tennis Associations and Gawler and District Tennis Association \u00a0taking part in a first to four games round robin format.<\/p>\n<p>The final was a hard fought tussle with Doni Gashi (Seaside Tennis Club) just getting the edge on Aiden Ponton (Willaston Tennis Club) 4-3.\u00a0 All children performed extremely well with many long rallies demonstrating the modified program is a winner.<\/p>\n<p>Rick Bailey, Hot Shots Coordinator and Vice President at Gawler &amp; Districts TA) said \u201c<em>Since introducing the MLC Tennis Hot Shots in Gawler we have started to create a pathway for the kids and opportunities like the orange ball have really been embraced by the parents and kids.\u00a0 Exciting times ahead\u201d.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>For further information\u00a0please visit the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/players\/mlc-tennis-hot-shots-sa\" target=\"_blank\">MLC Tennis Hots Shots page <\/a>or call Tennis SA on 08 7224 8100 and chat to your Community Tennis Officer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gawler and District Tennis Association hosted as part of the OJT on Saturday 9th July 2011.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5915,"featured_media":2831,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2783","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\/2783","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\/5915"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2783\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}