{"id":40087,"date":"2024-12-27T14:00:35","date_gmt":"2024-12-27T03:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/?p=40087"},"modified":"2024-12-23T15:28:12","modified_gmt":"2024-12-23T04:28:12","slug":"the-69th-inter-regional-country-championships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/news\/2024\/12\/27\/the-69th-inter-regional-country-championships","title":{"rendered":"The 69th Inter Regional Country Championships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>The 69th Inter Regional Country Championships<\/strong> will kick off the new year as the first tournament of 2025, taking place from <strong>3 to 5 January<\/strong> at the <strong>Mt Prospect Tennis Association.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">The event will bring together a total of 217 players who will compete from seven country regions in a unique team style playing format.\u00a0Across 500+ matches\u00a0jam-packed into three thrilling days, players will proudly represent their regions. Play is set to commence on Friday 3\u00a0January.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">The 2025 Inter Regional Country Championships will also be the last stop on the road for Daphne and Norm as part of the AO on the Road before they head to the Australian Open. The added presence of the trophies will bring an extra layer of excitement to the event, as players will get a taste of the AO spirit right in their backyard.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Saturday will see the\u00a0Mt Prospect Tennis Association transform into a vibrant community hub with food trucks and live entertainment.\u00a0The weekend will come to a climax in Sunday\u2019s finals, where the champions of this prestigious event will be crowned. With so much high-quality talent and sportsmanship on display, the big question is: Which team will rise to the challenge and claim the coveted title this year?<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Best of luck to all participating players and regions competing across the three days!<\/p>\n<h2>Past Winners:<\/h2>\n<p><strong>2023 &#8211;<\/strong>\u00a0Loddon Campaspe<\/p>\n<p><strong>2022 &#8211;\u00a0<\/strong>Goulburn<\/p>\n<p><strong>2021 &#8211; <\/strong>Barwon<\/p>\n<p><strong>2020 &#8211; <\/strong>Goulburn<\/p>\n<p><strong>2019 &#8211; <\/strong>Goulburn<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 69th Inter Regional Country Championships will see 217 players from seven regions compete in over 500 matches from 3\u20135 January at Mt Prospect Tennis Association.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6423,"featured_media":40091,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,1],"tags":[99],"class_list":["post-40087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-competitive-play","category-news","tag-tournaments"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40087","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\/6423"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40087\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}