{"id":8095,"date":"2018-06-27T16:43:02","date_gmt":"2018-06-27T06:43:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/tas\/?p=8095"},"modified":"2018-06-27T16:43:02","modified_gmt":"2018-06-27T06:43:02","slug":"tennis-in-launceston-receives-2-million-boost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/tas\/news\/2018\/06\/27\/tennis-in-launceston-receives-2-million-boost","title":{"rendered":"Tennis in Launceston receives $2 million boost"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Tasmanian Government has committed to delivering $2 million to help upgrade the Launceston Tennis Community and Events Centre.<\/p>\n

“This project has the capacity to\u00a0\u00a0deliver key benefits for Tasmania and the Launceston region – economically, socially, physically and mentally,” MP Guy Barnett said.<\/p>\n

“It includes new multi-purpose community spaces and provides the current world-class playing facility with greater capacity to successfully attract and operate elite tennis events.”<\/p>\n

The Liberal Member for Lyons was in Launceston on Saturday to make the announcement, where he was joined by Tennis Tasmania chief executive officer Darren Sturgess.<\/p>\n

“It\u2019s a much-needed centre and a much-needed commitment,” Mr Sturgess said.<\/p>\n

Tennis Tasmania has\u00a0also committed $300,000\u00a0to the project. Further support is needed from federal and local government to fund the $4 million project.<\/p>\n

The Launceston Tennis Community and Events Centre hosts the annual Launceston International<\/a> in February, one of three international tennis tournaments staged in the state.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

State Government commits to supporting an upgrade of the Launceston Tennis Community and Events Centre.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6028,"featured_media":8096,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[79,80,78,73],"class_list":["post-8095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-funding","tag-government","tag-launceston","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/tas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8095","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\/6028"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/tas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/tas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8095\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/tas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/tas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/tas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/tas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}