{"id":3795,"date":"2011-12-16T14:39:50","date_gmt":"2011-12-16T05:09:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/?p=3795"},"modified":"2011-12-16T14:39:50","modified_gmt":"2011-12-16T05:09:50","slug":"neta-orange-ball-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/news\/2011\/12\/16\/neta-orange-ball-finals","title":{"rendered":"Orange Ball shows no signs of slowing down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Story submitted by Jason Todd.<\/p>\n<p>The first official season of\u00a0North Eastern Tennis Association (NETA) Orange Hot Shots was completed yesterday with a fantastic finals day. 37 players completed represented Tea Tree Gully, Golden Grove, Salisbury Recreation Precinct, Broadview and The\u00a0Grove.<\/p>\n<p>A great time was had by all with some fantastic matches and many great rallies witnessed. With parents, granparents, siblings and competitors, there were at least 100 people at the Tea Tree Gully Tennis Club to take part in this event. The atmosphere was great.<\/p>\n<p>NETA\u00a0Orange Ball Coordinator &amp;\u00a0Tea Tree Gully Head Coach Jason Todd &#8211; &#8220;Without the modified tennis enabled by the MLC Tennis Hot Shots, none of these kids would be\u00a0ready for club competition. As a result of this program, many of them will graduate into club tennis with great confidence when the winter season begins&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>A special thanks should go out to all the parents that have made this program a fantastic success.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The next season of the\u00a0NETA Orange Ball Competition\u00a0begins on Sunday\u00a05\u00a0 February and we will\u00a0see numbers expand from 36 to around 60 competitors.<\/p>\n<p>There are also tournaments available for Hot Shots players at the Tea Tree Gully Tennis Club on the 9th and 11th of January for those looking for a fun, challenging day or two\u00a0duting the holidays.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inaugural North Eastern Tennis Association (NETA) Orange Hot Shots season a huge success!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5915,"featured_media":3796,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3795","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\/3795","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=3795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3795\/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=3795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}