{"id":18544,"date":"2018-03-13T11:19:34","date_gmt":"2018-03-13T00:19:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/?p=18544"},"modified":"2018-03-13T11:22:31","modified_gmt":"2018-03-13T00:22:31","slug":"tennis-hoping-to-ace-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/news\/2018\/03\/13\/tennis-hoping-to-ace-awards","title":{"rendered":"Tennis hoping to ace awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 2017 Victorian Sport Awards are set to be announced on Wednesday 14 March with a number of tennis individuals named as finalists.<\/p>\n<p>Of the 19 awards to be presented on the night, nine of them will have a Victorian tennis identity in contention.<\/p>\n<p>The Victorian Sport Awards intend on honouring Victorians that have made a significant contribution to sport as an individual or team, administrators, coaches and volunteers.<\/p>\n<p>The list of tennis finalists are below:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Victorian Community Coach of the Year (Vicky Lee)<\/li>\n<li>Sports Administrator of the Year (Belinda Kleverlaan)<\/li>\n<li>Victorian Community Sporting Club of the Year (Boroondara Tennis Centre)<\/li>\n<li>Victorian Masters Sport Award (Glenn Busby)<\/li>\n<li>Victorian Young Team of the Year (14s National Champions team)<\/li>\n<li>Victorian Young Athlete of the Year (Destanee Aiava)<\/li>\n<li>Victorian Male Athlete of the Year (John Peers)<\/li>\n<li>Victorian Sport Development Initiative of the Year (Book a Court)<\/li>\n<li>Victorian Service to Community Sport and Recreation (David Stobart)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>With many of the finalists awarded Victorian Tennis Awards last year, this proves what a sensational 12 months these individuals have had.<\/p>\n<p>We would like to congratulate all of the finalists and wish them the very best for the night.<\/p>\n<p>The awards will be held at the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre. For more information, <a href=\"https:\/\/vicsport.com.au\/awards\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victorian tennis hoping to make a big impact at the upcoming Victorian Sport Awards<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6038,"featured_media":18547,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6038"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18544\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}