Community members of all ages joined in the fun at a Rosny Park Tennis Club tennis-a-thon at the weekend.<\/p>\n
The club’s courts were in use for 24 consecutive hours from 8am on Saturday 30 March to 8am on Sunday 31 March. The event also included a special visit from\u00a0City of Clarence mayor Doug Chipman\u00a0to officially open the club’s new covered deck.<\/p>\n
The tennis-a-thon began with ANZ Tennis Hot Shots<\/a> Red Ball matches for beginners and ended with an over 70s social hit. In between, there were exhibition matches featuring some of Tasmania’s best juniors, social play opportunities and a high-energy Cardio Tennis<\/a> session.<\/p>\n Many competitors, including some in fancy dress, braved the cool weather to play through the night.<\/p>\n “The temperature fell to eight degrees, but felt like 5.5,” noted organising committee member Di Mason.<\/p>\n The event raised just over $2,000 for Melanoma Tasmania, which will enable the organisation to raise awareness about this common cancer (the most common in 15-39 year olds) and assist with implementing UV meters across the state.<\/p>\n Congratulations to the Rosny Park Tennis Club members and volunteers, led by president Paul Herczykowski and treasurer Di Fincke, for their involvement. A special mention goes to the organising committee of\u00a0Angie Flynn, Kevin Jones, Di Mason, Kadie Pretyman, Matt Scott, Tony Blom and Marty Nidorfer for their efforts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Rosny Park Tennis Club hosted a successful tennis-a-thon, involving players of all ages. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6028,"featured_media":8787,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[161,73,191,181,190],"class_list":["post-8785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-charity","tag-news","tag-opening","tag-rosny-park-tennis-club","tag-tennis-a-thon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/tas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8785","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=8785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/tas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8785\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/tas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/tas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/tas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/tas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}