{"id":9726,"date":"2020-12-17T12:41:38","date_gmt":"2020-12-17T01:41:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/tas\/?p=9726"},"modified":"2020-12-17T12:45:18","modified_gmt":"2020-12-17T01:45:18","slug":"meet-the-board-nick-haddow-tennis-tasmania-director","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/tas\/news\/2020\/12\/17\/meet-the-board-nick-haddow-tennis-tasmania-director","title":{"rendered":"Meet the Board: Nick Haddow, Tennis Tasmania Director"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Hi Nick, can you tell the Tennis Tasmania community a bit about yourself and your background?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am a life-long lover of the game who loves nothing more than having a weekly hit. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>More recently my tennis journey has been as a \u2018tennis parent\u2019 of our twelve-year-old son, Wilkie, an aspiring young player. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Supporting Wilkie through his tennis development over the past five years has also given me an incredible insight into the challenges and opportunities for the sport in Tasmania.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Although starting life in South Australia, I have been a passionate Tasmanian since 2001 when Leonie and I moved here and started Bruny Island Cheese Co. \u2013 which has been the most rewarding experience imaginable. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am someone who values a strong commitment to giving back to my community, and this has led me to holding several board positions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Currently I serve as Chair of the Brand Tasmania Authority, am a director of Wine Tasmania, serve on the Board of the Churchill Fellowship Trust (Tasmania), and now, am also proud to be the newest member of the Tennis Tasmania Board.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>What attracted you to a position on the Tennis Tasmania Board?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Being the father of a young tennis player, I am keen to see tennis in our state reach its potential. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am a big believer in Tasmania\u2019s ability to \u2018punch above its weight\u2019 and would love to see the sport develop more strongly at both a community and an elite level.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Finally, if you could describe your playing style in one word, what would it be?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Terrifying!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I would love to see the sport develop more strongly at both a community and an elite level&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6260,"featured_media":9727,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,258],"tags":[73,259,247],"class_list":["post-9726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-tennis-tasmania-board","tag-news","tag-nick-haddow","tag-tennis-tasmania-board"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/tas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9726","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=9726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/tas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9726\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/tas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/tas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/tas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/tas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}