{"id":6448,"date":"2013-10-28T14:30:23","date_gmt":"2013-10-28T05:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/?p=6448"},"modified":"2013-10-28T14:30:23","modified_gmt":"2013-10-28T05:00:23","slug":"is-gawler-home-to-australias-fastest-serve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/news\/2013\/10\/28\/is-gawler-home-to-australias-fastest-serve","title":{"rendered":"Is Gawler home to Australia\u2019s fastest serve?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <strong>AO Blitz<\/strong> will appear at the <strong>Gawler Village Fair<\/strong> on <strong>Saturday 2 November <\/strong>as the largest participation drive in Australian tennis history continues 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>On Saturday the AO Blitz will visit <strong>Gawler Village Fair, Pioneer Park, Murray Street, Gawler <\/strong>from <strong>9.00am \u2013\u00a0 2.30pm<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Locals will have the chance to participate in a range of free tennis activities including:<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <strong>MLC Tennis Hot Shots<\/strong> \u2013 modified tennis designed especially for children<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <strong>Cardio Tennis<\/strong> \u2013 new tennis fitness workout<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Speed Serve<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Plus fun giveaways to take home<\/p>\n<p><em>**At the Gawler 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><br \/>\n&#8211; ends &#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Visit Gawler Village Fair, Pioneer Park, Murray Street, Gawler from 9.00am \u2013  2.30pm <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5915,"featured_media":6449,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6448","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\/6448","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=6448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6448\/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=6448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}