{"id":27846,"date":"2022-04-01T06:55:56","date_gmt":"2022-03-31T19:55:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/?p=27846"},"modified":"2022-04-01T09:30:58","modified_gmt":"2022-03-31T22:30:58","slug":"tennis-victoria-pennant-is-set-for-a-radical-change-ahead-of-round-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/news\/2022\/04\/01\/tennis-victoria-pennant-is-set-for-a-radical-change-ahead-of-round-1","title":{"rendered":"Tennis Victoria&#8217;s Pennant Competition is set for a radical change ahead of Round 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Tennis Victoria\u2019s Pennant competition is set for a radical change ahead of the 2022 season, by altering a scoring rule that the competition has implemented for the last 138 years.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The scoring required to win a game in Pennant will change in 2022, with the third point of each game moving from \u201940\u2019 to \u201945\u2019.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>It\u2019s a large change to the competition, which has previously aligned with other tennis competitions around Australia with scoring of 15, 30, 40 before winning a game.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<em>\u201cWe were going to make this change in the 140th year, but we thought, why not bring it forward 12 months\u201d said a Tennis Victoria Spokesperson<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<em>\u201cIt\u2019s a logical step for the competition, and for tennis &#8211; helping everyone playing to remember their 15 times tables before they win a game\u201d said a Pennant player ready for the upcoming season.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0More to come.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0\u2026.April Fools!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tennis Victoria\u2019s Pennant competition is set for a radical change ahead of the 2022 season, by altering a scoring rule that the competition has implemented for the last 138 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6293,"featured_media":27847,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27846","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\/27846","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=27846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27846\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}