{"id":27858,"date":"2022-04-01T10:21:59","date_gmt":"2022-03-31T23:21:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/?p=27858"},"modified":"2022-04-01T10:22:00","modified_gmt":"2022-03-31T23:22:00","slug":"williamstown-bayside-tennis-to-host-lo-no-vision-come-and-try-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/news\/2022\/04\/01\/williamstown-bayside-tennis-to-host-lo-no-vision-come-and-try-day","title":{"rendered":"Williamstown Bayside Tennis to host Lo\/No Vision Come and Try day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Williamstown Bayside Tennis Centre warmly invites all members of the community to their Lo\/No Vision Come and Try day this Sunday, April 3<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">rd<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> from 10am to 12pm.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The day is open to the entire community, <\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">including all levels of vision loss, ages and standards.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Following on from a successful coach education session delivered by Tennis Victoria Coaching Leader Jon Watson, Williamstown Bayside is seeking expressions of interest for the delivery of a Blind and Low Vision Tennis Program in the Hobsons Bay Community.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Williamstown Blind &amp; Low Vision Coaching Session\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VrKsYCWNoc8?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><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The Williamstown coaches donned simulation glasses which allow wearers to experience four different eye conditions. These glasses will also be available for the community to try this Sunday, as well as having a hit with some of the local blind tennis athletes.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Local resident Robert Fletcher currently works with coach James Wong on a weekly basis, and has been a key driver in the creation of the Blind and Low Vision program. Rob speaks highly of the benefits of his coaching session with James \u2013\u00a0noting changes in his health, balance and general wellbeing after taking up tennis.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Read more about Rob\u2019s experiences with tennis in his conversation with Blind Sports &amp; Recreation Victoria <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blindsports.org.au\/news-article\/armchair-travel-with-robert-fletcher-we-joined-in\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">here<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\">.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-standard-portrait wp-image-27859\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/files\/2022\/04\/Screenshot-2022-04-01-100857-330x520.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"330\" height=\"520\" \/><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Williamstown Bayside Tennis Centre warmly invites all members of the community to their Lo\/No Vision Come and Try day this Sunday, April 3rd from 10am to 12pm.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6297,"featured_media":27861,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27858","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\/27858","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\/6297"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27858\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}