{"id":6531,"date":"2013-11-18T15:29:14","date_gmt":"2013-11-18T05:59:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/?p=6531"},"modified":"2013-11-18T15:29:14","modified_gmt":"2013-11-18T05:59:14","slug":"is-murray-bridge-home-to-australias-fastest-serve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/news\/2013\/11\/18\/is-murray-bridge-home-to-australias-fastest-serve","title":{"rendered":"Is Murray Bridge home to Australia\u2019s fastest serve?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <strong>AO Blitz<\/strong> will arrive in <strong>Murray Bridge <\/strong>on<strong> Friday 22 November <\/strong>in search of the nation\u2019s fastest serve.<\/p>\n<p>If you have what it takes to hit the fastest serve, come along to win an opportunity to clock your speed on Rod Laver Arena during <strong>Australian Open 2014<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The AO Blitz is the largest participation drive in Australian tennis history, and offers both experienced players and those who have never picked up a racquet the chance to win major prizes and have an Australian Open 2014 player represent their local town.<\/p>\n<p>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>This Friday the AO Blitz will be visiting:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lutheran Tennis Club, Christian Reserve, Recreation Avenue <\/strong>from <strong>3:30pm \u2013 7:00pm.<\/p>\n<p><\/strong>Locals will have the chance to participate in a range of tennis activities including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0A schools MLC Tennis Hot Shots tournament will be taking place from 11am-2pm (entries have already closed)<\/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>Speed serve<\/li>\n<li>Exhibition match between Jess Moore (high world ranking of 132) and SA\u2019s top ranked junior Chloe Hule \u2013 starting at 6pm.<\/li>\n<li>Plus fun giveaways to take home<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>**At the Murray Bridge AO Blitz we will also 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>AO  Blitz arrives into Murray Bridge on Friday 22 November<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5915,"featured_media":6532,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6531","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\/6531","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=6531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6531\/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=6531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}