{"id":29335,"date":"2023-01-17T12:49:40","date_gmt":"2023-01-17T01:49:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/?p=29335"},"modified":"2023-01-17T13:06:12","modified_gmt":"2023-01-17T02:06:12","slug":"vicsattheao-lewis-murray","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/news\/2023\/01\/17\/vicsattheao-lewis-murray","title":{"rendered":"#VicsAtTheAO \u2013 Lewis Murray"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lewis Murray is a ballkid at this year\u2019s Australian Open from Castlemaine, Central Victoria!<\/p>\n

Lewis has had a massive January already, starting off by representing Loddon Campaspe at the 2023 Tennis Victoria Inter-regional Country Championships at Yarrawonga Lawn Tennis Club and winning the 14\/U Boys Singles Title and a finalist in the 14\/U Doubles.<\/p>\n

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Throughout the Australian Open, Lewis is a ball kid and pictured here with Rhys Bergman in 2022, the two will complete their second AO in 2023.<\/p>\n

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Lewis and Rhys were the first two Indigenous Ballkids at the AO last year. This year, there is a dedicated pathway through the First Nations Ballkid program with 14 First Nations Ballkids across Australia taking part.<\/p>\n

Additionally, Lewis was named the 14\/U National Indigenous Champion in August 2022 in Darwin at the National Indigenous Tennis Carnival!<\/p>\n

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Lewis is excited to be part of the 2023 Australian Open \u00a0\u201cIt is really exciting to be a First Nations Ballkid for the 2023 AO because I get to give balls to my favourite players and see how they hit such a good ball\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cSome of my highlights being a Ballkid are probably making new friends, watching my favorite players close up and getting to bond with the fellow First Nations Ballkids\u201d<\/p>\n

You\u2019ll find Lewis in the Ballkid team from 9am to 6pm each day, Ballkids are required to be on court for 45 minutes before having a 45 minute break, then back to it again.<\/p>\n

Enjoy the AO, Lewis!<\/p>\n

#VicsAtTheAO<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Lewis Murray is a ballkid at this year\u2019s Australian Open from Castlemaine, Central Victoria! Lewis has had a massive January already, starting off by representing Loddon Campaspe at the 2023 Tennis Victoria Inter-regional Country Championships at Yarrawonga Lawn Tennis Club and winning the 14\/U Boys Singles Title and a finalist in the 14\/U Doubles. Throughout […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6366,"featured_media":29336,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29335","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\/29335","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\/6366"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29335\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}