{"id":9941,"date":"2021-02-17T17:31:57","date_gmt":"2021-02-17T06:31:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/tas\/?p=9941"},"modified":"2021-02-17T17:34:23","modified_gmt":"2021-02-17T06:34:23","slug":"meet-the-board-rob-miller-tennis-tasmania-director","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/tas\/news\/2021\/02\/17\/meet-the-board-rob-miller-tennis-tasmania-director","title":{"rendered":"Meet the Board: Rob Miller, Tennis Tasmania Director"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Hi Rob, can you tell the Tasmanian Tennis Community a bit about yourself and your background?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I first played some tennis at a poor level as a junior before spending most of my younger sporting years competing in different forms of motorsport.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The highlight for me in that area was getting an opportunity to race in a support category to Formula 1 at the Albert Park Grand Prix.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m currently the CEO of SRT Logistics, a Tasmanian transport company.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition to my role with SRT,  I have previous board experience in the sporting sector having served for five years as a Director with Motor Sports Tasmania, the owner of Symmons Plains and Baskerville Raceways.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Over the last six years I have been involved with tennis in the state and nationally through the participation of my daughter Brooke. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I have also participated as an occasional pennant player at the Domain Tennis Centre, competing at a very low standard.<br><br><strong>What attracted you to a position on the Tennis Tasmania Board?<\/strong><br><br>Through Brooke\u2019s participation I have a strong grasp on where junior tennis is in Tasmania, particularly compared to what I have seen travelling the country when she has been competing at other state-level and national events. <br><br>Since joining the Board, junior participation has been a key area of focus. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From my experience gained through my working life, I also try to bring a greater level of commercial perspective to the Board and support the Tennis Tasmania team where possible on relevant and specific tasks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>If you could describe your playing style in one word, what would it be? <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I would describe my tennis playing style as rubbish!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Since joining the Board, junior participation has been a key area of focus.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6260,"featured_media":9945,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,258],"tags":[73,247],"class_list":["post-9941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-tennis-tasmania-board","tag-news","tag-tennis-tasmania-board"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/tas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9941","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=9941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/tas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9941\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/tas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/tas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/tas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/tas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}