{"id":24142,"date":"2020-10-18T13:58:10","date_gmt":"2020-10-18T02:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/?p=24142"},"modified":"2020-10-18T14:08:40","modified_gmt":"2020-10-18T03:08:40","slug":"tennis-victoria-update-18-october-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/news\/2020\/10\/18\/tennis-victoria-update-18-october-2020","title":{"rendered":"Tennis Victoria Update 18 October 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The below message was sent to Tennis Victoria Affiliates on Sunday 18 October 2020.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Dear Affiliate,<\/p>\n<p>We are delighted to have some good news for those of you in Melbourne.<\/p>\n<p>Following announcements by Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews today, limited outdoor tennis coaching and recreational play can return in Metropolitan Melbourne from midnight tonight.<\/p>\n<p>As always, we must await the Sport and Recreation Victoria (SRV) legal directions before we can provide the Return to Tennis Guidelines with full details, but <strong>here is what we know currently<\/strong>,<\/p>\n<p><strong>Metro Melbourne <u>from Midnight tonight<\/u>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Outdoor tennis courts can reopen \u2013 clubhouses must remain closed (we expect toilets will be able to open and will confirm as soon as possible)<\/li>\n<li>Groups of up to 10 are allowed from a maximum of 2 households. We don\u2019t yet know if this is per court or per venue and whether or not a coach will be included in the 10.<\/li>\n<li>You can travel up to 25km from your home to a court, but no further.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ol>\n<li>It is likely local councils will require a COVIDSafe plan before a venue can reopen. You can find a link to the Business Victoria COVIDSafe Plan template <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coronavirus.vic.gov.au\/covidsafe-plan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>. Some councils may accept a completed Tennis Victoria Return to Tennis Checklist as a COVIDSafe Plan \u2013 you can find this on our website <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/news-and-events\/covid-19-information-tennis-toolkit\/tennis-toolkit-metro-melbourne\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>Metro Melbourne <u>from 1 Nov<\/u> \u2013 as above PLUS:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Competition will return<\/li>\n<li>Indoor centres can open for under 18s only \u2013 no detail yet on numbers of players or spectators allowed<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Regional Victoria from <u>Midnight tonight<\/u>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>No change other than hospitality arrangements have changed, please assess the impact for your venue <a href=\"https:\/\/www.business.vic.gov.au\/__data\/assets\/pdf_file\/0007\/1934989\/Industry-Restart-Guidelines-Hospitality.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Regional Victoria from <u>1 Nov<\/u>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Indoor centres can open for under 18s only \u2013 no detail yet on numbers of players or spectators allowed<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>We are now seeking clarity on the detail of all of the above from State Government SRV and will send this as soon as we have it.\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It has been incredibly challenging for us all and we are so grateful for your patience as we slowly reopen tennis.\u00a0 Thank you for all your hard work and support \u2013 we are almost there and we can\u2019t wait to see the tennis courts in Melbourne open again.<\/p>\n<p>Warm Regards,<br \/>\nTennis Victoria<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This message was sent to Tennis Victoria Affiliates on Sunday 18 October 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6228,"featured_media":24099,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24142","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\/24142","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=24142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24142\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}