{"id":27079,"date":"2021-12-03T14:51:25","date_gmt":"2021-12-03T03:51:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/?p=27079"},"modified":"2021-12-06T14:42:55","modified_gmt":"2021-12-06T03:42:55","slug":"vale-brian-grace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/news\/2021\/12\/03\/vale-brian-grace","title":{"rendered":"Vale Brian Grace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Victorian tennis has lost one it&#8217;s greats \u2013 Brian Grace.<\/p>\n<p>Brian was one of Tennis Australia\u2019s longest-serving officials, starting in 1984 as a line umpire and progressing to Australian Open Chief Umpire from 2017-2019.<\/p>\n<p>Following his sudden passing at age 77, Brian is being remembered for his profoundly positive impact on umpires, officials, players and staff through nearly four decades all across the country.<\/p>\n<p>Brian was also a past recipient of the Victorian Spirit of Tennis Award (in 2010).<\/p>\n<p>Details of his funeral are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heraldsun.com.au\/tributes\/notice\/funeral-notices\/grace-brian-michael\/5851502\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/news\/2021\/11\/26\/tribute-remembering-brian-grace\">Read Tennis Australia&#8217;s Tribute to Brian<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victorian tennis has lost one it&#8217;s greats \u2013 Brian Grace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6293,"featured_media":27080,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27079","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\/27079","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\/6293"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27079\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}