{"id":7088,"date":"2016-04-06T15:59:59","date_gmt":"2016-04-06T05:59:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/tas\/?p=7088"},"modified":"2016-04-06T16:17:52","modified_gmt":"2016-04-06T06:17:52","slug":"angie-cunningham-an-inspirational-tassie-girl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/tas\/news\/2016\/04\/06\/angie-cunningham-an-inspirational-tassie-girl","title":{"rendered":"Angie Cunningham &#8211; an inspirational Tassie girl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Angie was a hugely talented tennis player as a young girl.\u00a0At 14, she moved from Tasmania to the AIS to start her\u00a0tennis career. By 18 she&#8217;d picked up a World Junior Doubles ranking of 3, soon after she became a two times finalist of the Australian Open Junior Doubles, a Finalist of Wimbledon Junior Doubles and represented Australia on numerous occasions.<\/p>\n<p>Angie\u00a0is now in a wheelchair and can&#8217;t move anything but her eyes due to Motor Neurone Disease (MND).<\/p>\n<p>Read Angie&#8217;s story in an interview with\u00a0Hamish McLachlan, her long-time friend.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.heraldsun.com.au\/news\/hamish-mclachlan-interviews-angie-cunningham-about-her-mnd-battle-over-five-months\/news-story\/d19023efd697cb0124963051add6e028\" target=\"_blank\">An interview with Angie Cunningham<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/tas\/files\/2016\/04\/Angie-Cunningham-family.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-standard-landscape wp-image-7089\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/tas\/files\/2016\/04\/Angie-Cunningham-family-700x450.jpg\" alt=\"Angie-Cunningham-&amp;-family\" width=\"700\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/tas\/files\/2016\/04\/Angie-Cunningham-family-700x450.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/tas\/files\/2016\/04\/Angie-Cunningham-family-360x230.jpg 360w, https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/tas\/files\/2016\/04\/Angie-Cunningham-family-200x128.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center\"><em>(Above) Angie Cunningham with husband Pat and daughters Sophie and Maggie<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center\"><em>(Below) Angie as a Junior player<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/tas\/files\/2016\/04\/1024-Angie-Cunningham.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-standard-portrait wp-image-7094\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/tas\/files\/2016\/04\/1024-Angie-Cunningham-330x520.jpg\" alt=\"1024-Angie-Cunningham\" width=\"330\" height=\"520\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Angie was a hugely talented tennis player as a young girl.\u00a0At 14, she moved from Tasmania to the AIS to start her\u00a0tennis career. By 18 she&#8217;d picked up a World Junior Doubles ranking of 3, soon after she became a two times finalist of the Australian Open Junior Doubles, a Finalist of Wimbledon Junior Doubles [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5828,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/tas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/tas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/tas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/tas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5828"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/tas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/tas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7088\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/tas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/tas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/tas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}