{"id":9524,"date":"2020-11-16T08:48:08","date_gmt":"2020-11-15T21:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/tas\/?p=9524"},"modified":"2020-11-18T16:51:59","modified_gmt":"2020-11-18T05:51:59","slug":"australian-summer-of-tennis-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/tas\/news\/2020\/11\/16\/australian-summer-of-tennis-update","title":{"rendered":"Australian Summer of Tennis, tournament calendar update"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>To the Tasmanian Tennis Community,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Following months of extensive discussions with governments across the country and multiple scenarios considered, unfortunately due to the many logistical challenges created by the pandemic the Australian Summer of Tennis will be played in Victoria in 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This decision has been made because of the restrictions in every State and Territory which make it impossible for the players to prepare properly and for us to run our normal summer program in Tasmania.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt is with sadness we confirm the <strong>Hobart International<\/strong> will not go ahead in 2021,&#8221; <strong>Darren Sturgess, Tennis Tasmania General Manager<\/strong> said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The <strong>Australian Pro Tour events<\/strong> in <strong>Launceston<\/strong> and <strong>Burnie <\/strong>will also not take place.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAs you can imagine the logistical challenge created by the pandemic has forced us to make this decision.&#8221; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We look forward to planning a big Hobart International and the rest of our tournament calendar for 2022.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>More information on the Summer of Tennis calendar will be available soon. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victoria will host the Australian Summer of Tennis in 2021, including Tasmanian events<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6260,"featured_media":9525,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/tas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9524","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\/6260"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/tas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/tas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9524\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/tas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/tas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/tas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/tas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}