{"id":18971,"date":"2018-06-27T17:14:19","date_gmt":"2018-06-27T07:14:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/?p=18971"},"modified":"2018-06-27T17:14:19","modified_gmt":"2018-06-27T07:14:19","slug":"what-inspires-you-to-play-tennis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/news\/2018\/06\/27\/what-inspires-you-to-play-tennis","title":{"rendered":"What inspires you to play Tennis?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As part of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thisgirlcan.com.au\/\">This Girl Can &#8211; VIC<\/a> campaign, we asked participants at the Country Week event in Swan Hill, what inspires and motivates you to play Tennis?<\/p>\n<p>Rose, Helen and Gwenda have amazing stories to tell.<\/p>\n<p>Although these women had doubts about trying something new and whether they were good enough, they gave it a go anyway. They now play tennis to keep active and socialise with friends \u2013 it\u2019s now a big part of their lives!<\/p>\n<p>As Rose says, \u201cIt\u2019s about getting out and having a go and having fun and enjoying the sport, and I just love it\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>You can listen to their stories below:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Story Pods | THIS GIRL CAN VIC\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PaV95gYxoW8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>To find out how you can get involved in tennis go to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/play\">www.tennis.com.au\/play<\/a><\/p>\n<p>To learn more about how everyday women are getting active go to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thisgirlcan.com.au\">www.thisgirlcan.com.au<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s hear from Rose, Helen and Gwenda as they talk about what inspires and motivates them to play Tennis<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6038,"featured_media":18632,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18971","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\/18971","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=18971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18971\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}