{"id":11337,"date":"2016-07-06T09:53:31","date_gmt":"2016-07-06T01:53:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/?p=11337"},"modified":"2016-07-06T10:00:15","modified_gmt":"2016-07-06T02:00:15","slug":"asia-pacific-tennis-league-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/news\/2016\/07\/06\/asia-pacific-tennis-league-update","title":{"rendered":"Asia-Pacific Tennis League Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As recently advised by Tennis Australia, the Asia-Pacific Tennis League (ATL) will not be held in the foreseeable future.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Tennis Australia, along with its Member Associations, recently conducted a review of all current programs, products and strategic priorities. This review highlighted a significant opportunity to focus investment into grassroots team tennis.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>After careful consideration, it was decided the current investment into the ATL would be re-directed into these future generations. The long-term opportunities and benefits of supporting our youth at a grassroots level has been identified as a priority.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Tennis Australia, along with its Member Associations, acknowledges that Players, Team Managers, Coaches, Clubs, Associations, Communities, Sponsors and Member Associations have all contributed to create and deliver the ATL.<\/p>\n<p>We sincerely appreciate the time, effort and passion that has been invested over the past five years.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Tennis Australia, along with its Member Associations, are committed to working collaboratively throughout this period. If you have any questions please don&#8217;t hesitate to get in touch.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>From a WA perspective, the Men&#8217;s and Women&#8217;s State League forms the pinnacle of team competition in WA. This league offers a high standard of competition, and Tennis West is steadfast in its desire to continue to resource State League as an income earning opportunity for our elite players.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As recently advised by Tennis Australia, the Asia-Pacific Tennis League (ATL) will not be held in the foreseeable future. &nbsp; Tennis Australia, along with its Member Associations, recently conducted a review of all current programs, products and strategic priorities. This review highlighted a significant opportunity to focus investment into grassroots team tennis. &nbsp; After careful [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5812,"featured_media":11339,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5812"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11337\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}