{"id":17069,"date":"2017-05-10T10:44:34","date_gmt":"2017-05-10T00:44:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/?page_id=17069"},"modified":"2026-02-16T09:54:00","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T22:54:00","slug":"countryweek","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/countryweek","title":{"rendered":"Country Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Tennis Victoria Country Week is a week-long tennis event held in Country Victoria in early February of each year. Over 1300 players participate in this annual event, playing tennis on 100 grass courts (permanent and temporary). Tennis Victoria Country Week is the largest grass court tournament in the world. It\u2019s not to be missed.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Players converge on the host town to participate in tennis on the court and social activities off the court for the week-long event. All tennis is played on natural grass courts. The near 100 courts comprise permanent grass courts and neighbouring football ovals.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s fun, it&#8217;s social, it&#8217;s competitive &#8211; it&#8217;s the biggest grass court tournament in the world.*<\/p>\n<p><em>*As declared by us.<\/em><\/p>\n<h3><strong>2026 Country Week<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>The results and ladder can be viewed by clicking <a href=\"https:\/\/iframes.leagues.tennis.com.au\/281\/index.html\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Read the full wrap up article on Country Week 2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/competitive-play\/2026\/02\/13\/closing-the-curtain-on-a-record-breaking-country-week\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here.<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"table\">\n<h3><strong>Country Week Legends<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Every year Tennis Victoria will recognise the true legends of Country Week. The people that keep the teams coming back each year, introduce new players to this great event, and when you think of Country Week, you think of this person.<\/p>\n<p>Click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/news\/2026\/02\/09\/introducing-the-country-week-legends-for-2026\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a> to see who was inducted as a Country Week legend in 2026.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h3><strong>2026 Country Week Rules<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/?p=43286\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a> to view the updated Country Week rules for 2026.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Player 2026 Country Week FAQs<\/strong><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<p>Click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/?p=43446\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a> to view the 2026 Country Week FAQs.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Player Handbook<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/doc\/country-week-2026-handbook\">here<\/a> to view the 2026 Country Week Player Handbook<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Key contacts<\/strong><\/h3>\n<div class=\"table\">\n<table style=\"width: 415px;height: 72px\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"2\"><a href=\"mailto:countryweek@tennis.com.au\">countryweek@tennis.com.au<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<h3><strong>Relive Country Week 2026<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Rewatch the best of last year&#8217;s Country Week by clicking the links below &#8211;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/DUpKDPyD58P\/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&amp;igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">One Point Pop Slam\u00a0<\/a><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/DUrJwp-k01_\/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&amp;igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gilchrist Pearce Award<\/a><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/DUfgFaBjyLJ\/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&amp;igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Opening Night<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-43399\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/files\/2026\/02\/image-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"200\" \/><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tennis Victoria Country Week is the greatest community tennis event. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5595,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":1927,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-modules.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-17069","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5595"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17069\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}