{"id":33452,"date":"2025-04-17T01:52:54","date_gmt":"2025-04-16T16:22:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/?p=33452"},"modified":"2025-04-17T01:53:31","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T16:23:31","slug":"a-record-breaking-2025-blind-and-low-vision-summer-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/news\/2025\/04\/17\/a-record-breaking-2025-blind-and-low-vision-summer-season","title":{"rendered":"A Record Breaking 2025 Blind and Low Vision Summer Season!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The curtain has closed on another exciting season of the Tennis South Australia Blind and Low Vision (BLV) Summer League, with the Red Rhinos claiming the 2025 championship in a nail-biting showdown against the Green Giant Pandas.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Champions &#8211; Red Rhinos<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Reuben Fairbank<\/li>\n<li>Timothy Haggis<\/li>\n<li>Bo Buakhao <em>(Back-to-back champion, won 2024 with the Blue Bison)<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Nick Carozza<\/li>\n<li>Ellie Spofforth<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Season Highlights<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>95 matches<\/strong> played across the summer season<\/li>\n<li>A <strong>historic first-ever draw<\/strong> between two teams<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>Purple Pythons<\/strong> claimed third place with a strong performance in the 3rd-place playoff, knocking last year\u2019s champions, the <strong>Blue Bison<\/strong>, off the podium<\/li>\n<li><strong>15 of 17<\/strong> players from the 2024 season returned, joined by <strong>5 talented newcomers<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The Grand Final was officiated by accredited <strong>Tennis Australia officials<\/strong>, underscoring the league\u2019s growing stature and professionalism<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>South Australians Shine at the BLV Vic Open<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>South Australia\u2019s BLV players also made a strong impression at the recent BLV Victorian Open, bringing home medals and titles in multiple divisions:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Ethan Cook<\/strong> \u2013 Runner-up in both the <strong>B2 Men\u2019s Singles<\/strong> and <strong>B2 Men\u2019s Junior Singles<\/strong>, and <strong>Open B2 Doubles Champion<\/strong> alongside <strong>Mark Haskett<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Leah Glassenburry<\/strong> \u2013 <strong>B3 Women\u2019s Singles Champion<\/strong> and <strong>B3 Women\u2019s Doubles Runner-up<\/strong> with <strong>Madison Kelly<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The curtain has closed on another exciting season of the Tennis South Australia Blind and Low Vision (BLV) Summer League, with the Red Rhinos claiming the 2025 championship in a nail-biting showdown against the Green Giant Pandas. Champions &#8211; Red Rhinos Reuben Fairbank Timothy Haggis Bo Buakhao (Back-to-back champion, won 2024 with the Blue Bison) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6294,"featured_media":33453,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33452","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\/33452","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\/6294"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33452\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}