{"id":8412,"date":"2018-09-24T17:04:22","date_gmt":"2018-09-24T07:04:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/tas\/?p=8412"},"modified":"2018-09-24T17:04:22","modified_gmt":"2018-09-24T07:04:22","slug":"burnie-international-scoops-tasmanian-tennis-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/tas\/news\/2018\/09\/24\/burnie-international-scoops-tasmanian-tennis-award","title":{"rendered":"Burnie International scoops Tasmanian Tennis Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Burnie Tennis Club is celebrating after the Caterpillar Burnie International was named the state\u2019s Most Outstanding Professional Tournament.<\/p>\n<p>Tournament chairman Anthony Johnstone credited the club\u2019s hard-working volunteers as he proudly accepted the award at the 2018 Tasmanian Tennis Awards presentation evening on Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/2PTvpT9\">&gt; Full list of Tasmanian Tennis Awards winners<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s great to get recognition for the hard work that people put in,\u201d he said. \u201cWe are lucky to have a great club environment where people want to get involved.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEven if people have never picked up a tennis racquet themselves, they still put their hand up to help run this great event. This tournament is important for our town, for our club and that is our strength, having people who want to be part of it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The tournament has a proud history of unearthing future champions, with past winners including top Australian players John Millman, Bernard Tomic and Daria Gavrilova, as well as international stars Hyeon Chung and Eugenie Bouchard.<\/p>\n<p>Improved facilities have already proved popular with players, while corporate and social functions during the tournament continue to be well supported and help broaden the event&#8217;s appeal.<\/p>\n<p>The tournament\u2019s future looks even brighter, with a calendar move set to boost player fields. Traditionally the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/tournaments\/pro-tournaments\/australian-pro-tour\/burnie\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Burnie International<\/a> is held in the week after the Australian Open, but from 2019 will be played a week earlier.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re already lucky to get world-class tennis here without having to travel \u2013 and we\u2019re hoping that the earlier start will entice even more big-name players to come down and further strengthen our fields,\u201d Johnstone said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Burnie Tennis Club is celebrating after the Caterpillar Burnie International was named the state\u2019s Most Outstanding Professional Tournament.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6028,"featured_media":8415,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[137,136,73,116],"class_list":["post-8412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-anthony-johnstone","tag-burnie-international","tag-news","tag-tasmanian-tennis-awards"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/tas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8412","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=8412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/tas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8412\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/tas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/tas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/tas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/tas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}