{"id":23781,"date":"2020-09-03T11:13:16","date_gmt":"2020-09-03T01:13:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/?p=23781"},"modified":"2020-09-03T11:13:41","modified_gmt":"2020-09-03T01:13:41","slug":"around-the-courts-fun-facts-competitions-virtual-lessons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/news\/2020\/09\/03\/around-the-courts-fun-facts-competitions-virtual-lessons","title":{"rendered":"Around the Courts: Fun facts, competitions + virtual lessons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While getting on court has proved challenging with varying restrictions across the state, tennis clubs are keeping busy off the court and and finding innovative ways to virtually engage their players and members.<\/p>\n<p>Check out what some of the clubs have been doing during the lockdown period.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0091d2\"><strong>ALTONA TENNIS CLUB<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Colouring competition anyone? Congratulations to all winners who will each receive a prize pack from the club.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/vidatennisepping\/posts\/2741024959511963<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0091d2\"><strong>COBURG TENNIS CLUB<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Coburg are looking to #BounceBackTogether and have been staying connected by completing challenges, running competitions and sharing fun facts.<\/p>\n<p>Did someone say Virtual Bingo?<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CEfTbvaH-vl\/<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0091d2\"><strong>KARINGAL DRIVE TENNIS CLUB GREENSBOROUGH<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Teaming up with the coaching crew at Gripping Potential, the club has been running colouring competitions, skills challenges and games for coaching students, and &#8216;dress up your tennis racquet&#8217; competitions.<\/p>\n<p>Gripping Potential have also been providing advice around maintaining positive mental health during these tough times and healthy eating tips for the clubs adult members.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-23786\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/files\/2020\/08\/Karingal-Drive-TC.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/files\/2020\/08\/Karingal-Drive-TC.png 700w, https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/files\/2020\/08\/Karingal-Drive-TC-360x230.png 360w, https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/files\/2020\/08\/Karingal-Drive-TC-200x128.png 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0091d2\"><strong>NATIMUK TENNIS CLUB<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Natimuk Tennis Club have received plenty of community sport to assist in upgrades to their facilities, including three locals who have pledged to run a combined 50 kilometres to help raise money to fund dual-line marking of the courts.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/TennisVic\/posts\/3412436252150275<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0091d2\"><strong>WODONGA TENNIS CENTRE<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Wodonga Tennis Centre are excited to open for court bookings while in Stage 3 Restrictions in regional Victoria. The centre has implemented a range of procedures to ensure everyone stays safe.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/WodongaTennisCentre\/posts\/3306639662690299<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Check out what our affiliates have been up to.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6228,"featured_media":23074,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23781","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\/23781","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\/6228"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23781\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}