{"id":33724,"date":"2023-09-12T00:17:21","date_gmt":"2023-09-11T14:17:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/?p=33724"},"modified":"2023-10-20T23:56:24","modified_gmt":"2023-10-20T12:56:24","slug":"ferntree-gully-tc-and-slamin-tennis-launch-inaugural-mdf-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/news\/2023\/09\/12\/ferntree-gully-tc-and-slamin-tennis-launch-inaugural-mdf-tournament","title":{"rendered":"Ferntree Gully TC and Slamin Tennis launch inaugural MDF tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tennis Australia and all Member Associations &amp; <a class=\"fui-Link ___1eya986 f3rmtva f1ewtqcl fyind8e f1k6fduh f1w7gpdv fk6fouc fjoy568 figsok6 f1hu3pq6 f11qmguv f19f4twv f1tyq0we f1g0x7ka fhxju0i f1qch9an f1cnd47f fqv5qza f1vmzxwi f1o700av f13mvf36 f1cmlufx f9n3di6 f1ids18y f1tx3yz7 f1deo86v f1eh06m1 f1iescvh fhgqx19 f1olyrje f1p93eir f1nev41a f1h8hb77 f1x7u7e9 f10aw75t fsle3fq f17ae5zn\" title=\"https:\/\/www.movementdisordersfoundation.org\/about-mdf\" href=\"https:\/\/www.movementdisordersfoundation.org\/about-mdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Link Movement Disorder Foundation (MDF)\">Movement Disorder Foundation (MDF)<\/a> are working in partnership to ensure more children with a disability become active through participating in tennis.<\/p>\n<p>The inaugural <strong>MDF tournament<\/strong> commenced on Friday 8 September between Ferntree Gully TC (Metro South East) and Slamin Tennis (Metro East) with the first event held at Ferntree Gully TC. The event had a fantastic turnout and players were on court for nearly 2 hours before heading inside the clubhouse for food and drinks.\u00a0<span class=\"ui-provider eo bcv bcw bcx bcy bcz bda bdb bdc bdd bde bdf bdg bdh bdi bdj bdk bdl bdm bdn bdo bdp bdq bdr bds bdt bdu bdv bdw bdx bdy bdz bea beb bec\" dir=\"ltr\">All participants played on a full sized tennis court with a green ball, partaking in a round robin singles and doubles event (non-competitive) up to 8 games. At the tournament&#8217;s conclusion everyone was awarded a participation certificate for their efforts on the evening.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"ui-provider eo crv bpc crw crx cry crz csa csb csc csd cse csf csg csh csi csj csk csl csm csn cso csp csq csr css cst csu csv csw csx csy csz cta ctb\" dir=\"ltr\">A special thank you to <em>Vicki Lee (Slamin Tennis)<\/em> for her fantastic coordination of the event, supported by <em>Prestige Tennis Coach, Mark Brodam<\/em>. Stay tuned for more details about the <strong>second MDF tournament scheduled for January 2024 <\/strong>at Doncaster TC.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The <strong>MDF Cup day<\/strong> is scheduled for 8 October 2023 and will comprise of two event streams &#8211; <em>tabloid<\/em>, a series of modified activities and games for beginners, and <em>competition<\/em>, an intermediate red ball competition using modified equipment.<\/p>\n<p>We look forward to updating you on our fantastic upcoming events in partnership with MDF.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Tennis Australia partners with Movement Disorder Foundation\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9dnCk9uvAeM?start=69&#038;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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The inaugural MDF tournament commenced on Friday 8 September between Ferntree Gully TC (Metro South East) and Slamin Tennis (Metro East).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6373,"featured_media":33727,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,1],"tags":[64],"class_list":["post-33724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-affiliates","category-news","tag-affiliates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33724","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\/6373"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33724\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}