{"id":9964,"date":"2013-02-08T15:39:18","date_gmt":"2013-02-08T05:39:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/?p=9964"},"modified":"2013-02-08T15:39:18","modified_gmt":"2013-02-08T05:39:18","slug":"country-week-to-take-over-wodonga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/news\/2013\/02\/08\/country-week-to-take-over-wodonga","title":{"rendered":"Country Week to take over Wodonga"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 32<sup>nd<\/sup> annual Tankworld-Rebound Ace Victorian Country Tennis Association (VCTA) Country Week is set to take over Wodonga from 11-15 February 2013.<\/p>\n<p>An amazing 178 teams will make up the more than 900 players who will take part in the biggest grasscourt tournament in Australia as the Wodonga Tennis Centre will play host to the yearly event that for many is the highlight on the tennis calendar. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCountry Week is a massive event for the country community,\u201d said Pat Gilchrist, VCTA Administrator.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s the biggest grass court event in the nation, if not the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The event is the perfect mix of competitive tennis in a fun and family environment, with players ranging in age from 18 to 88 taking part across the week of tennis.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe players enjoy the event so much because it is competitive as well as social,\u201d Gilchrist added.<\/p>\n<p>Teams of four men or four women compete across 24 grades ranging from A to C on 80 permanent and temporary grasscourts.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tournament details:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When: 11-15 February<\/p>\n<p>Where: Wodonga Tennis Centre, Dalgleish Street, Wodonga VIC, 3960.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0To keep up to date with Country week results visit the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vcta\/countryweek\">VCTA website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 32nd annual Tankworld-Rebound Ace Victorian Country Tennis Association (VCTA) Country Week is set to take over Wodonga from 11-15 February 2013. An amazing 178 teams will make up the more than 900 players who will take part in the biggest grasscourt tournament in Australia as the Wodonga Tennis Centre will play host to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5907,"featured_media":9965,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9964","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\/9964","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\/5907"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9964\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}