In 2012\u201313 Tennis Australia will transition from a pilot National Tennis League to the Asia-Pacific Tennis League (ATL).\u00a0 The ATL is a new and innovative tennis league that will bring together teams of men and women from across the Asia-Pacific region. The league will provide players with the opportunity to play regular paid high-level matches.<\/p>\n
<\/strong>Domestically, the ATL will consist of five conferences (SA, WA Vic, NSW\/ACT and Qld) made up of 28 men\u2019s and 28 women\u2019s teams competing for their conference championship during November 2012.<\/p>\n Conference champions progress to the ATL Play-offs, which will be hosted at Melbourne Park during the second week of the Australian Open.<\/p>\n In its inaugural season, the ATL is working with the Asia-Pacific region to host three teams from outside Australia at the ATL Play-offs.\u00a0 Thus, the eight-team play-offs for both the men\u2019s and women\u2019s competitions will feature players from around the Asia-Pacific region.<\/p>\n > Take a look at the FAQs to learn more about the ATL<\/a><\/p>\n All players have the opportunity to nominate themselves for the league. There are no pre-requisites for players to participate in the league, however, based on the pilot competition conducted in 2011\u201312, the majority of players:<\/p>\n > Nominate for the Asia-Pacific Tennis League<\/a> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In 2012\u201313 Tennis Australia will transition from a pilot National Tennis League to the Asia-Pacific Tennis League (ATL).\u00a0 The ATL is a new and innovative tennis league that will bring together teams of men and women from across the Asia-Pacific region. The league will provide players with the opportunity to play regular paid high-level matches. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5915,"featured_media":3918,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4579","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\/4579","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=4579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4579\/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=4579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}How do I join a team?<\/h3>\n
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