{"id":6420,"date":"2013-10-23T08:52:13","date_gmt":"2013-10-22T23:22:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/?p=6420"},"modified":"2013-10-23T08:52:13","modified_gmt":"2013-10-22T23:22:13","slug":"mount-gambier-set-to-be-blitzed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/news\/2013\/10\/23\/mount-gambier-set-to-be-blitzed","title":{"rendered":"Mount Gambier set to be Blitzed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <strong>AO Blitz<\/strong> will appear at the <strong>Mount Gambier Show<\/strong> on <strong>Friday 25 October <\/strong>as the largest participation drive in Australian tennis history arrives in South Australia.<\/p>\n<p>The AO Blitz is a national competition that allows people who play tennis \u2013 and those who have never picked up a racquet \u2013 the chance to win major prizes and have an <strong>Australian Open 2014<\/strong> player represent their local town.<strong><\/p>\n<p><\/strong>The AO Blitz is comprised of two parts \u2013 free community tennis days and an online interactive competition at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aoblitz.com.au\/\">www.aoblitz.com.au<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In the lead-up to Australian Open 2014 the AO Blitz will be visiting communities in every state and territory of the country, encouraging Australians of all ages and tennis abilities to pick up a racquet and have a hit.<\/p>\n<p>This Friday the AO Blitz will visit the <strong>Mount Gambier Show, Mount Gambier Showground, Fifth Avenue, Mount Gambier <\/strong>from <strong>9:00am &#8211; 5:00pm.<\/p>\n<p><\/strong>Locals will have the chance to participate in a range of free tennis activities including:<strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Photo opportunities with the Australian Open trophies \u2013 the <strong>Norman Brookes Challenge Cup <\/strong>(men\u2019s singles trophy) and <strong>Daphne Akhurst Memorial Cup<\/strong> (women\u2019s singles trophy)<\/li>\n<li><strong>MLC Tennis Hot Shots<\/strong> \u2013 modified tennis designed especially for children<\/li>\n<li><strong>Cardio Tennis<\/strong> \u2013 new tennis fitness workout<\/li>\n<li>Plus fun giveaways to take home<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>**At the Mount Gambier AO Blitz stop we will be fundraising for our charity partners the <strong>National Breast Cancer Foundation<\/strong> and <strong>Prostate Cancer Foundation of Australia<\/strong>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The AO Blitz will visit the Mount Gambier Show on Friday 25 October<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5915,"featured_media":6421,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6420","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\/6420","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=6420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6420\/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=6420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}