{"id":11364,"date":"2016-07-13T14:20:11","date_gmt":"2016-07-13T06:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/?p=11364"},"modified":"2016-07-13T14:20:11","modified_gmt":"2016-07-13T06:20:11","slug":"2016-regional-talent-development-tour-darwin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/news\/2016\/07\/13\/2016-regional-talent-development-tour-darwin","title":{"rendered":"2016 Regional Talent Development Tour – Darwin"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tennis West invited 8 athletes living in regional Western Australia the opportunity to travel to Darwin as part of the, Regional Talent Development (RTD) program, supported by the Department of Sport & Recreation.<\/p>\n

Five athletes, aged between 12 and 13 years old, accepted the invitation on the subsidised tour who included; Grace Fisher<\/strong> (Beverley), Kaitlyn O\u2019Neill<\/strong> (Tarin Rock), Isabelle Plowman<\/strong> (Kojonup), Kennedy Taylor<\/strong> (Wagin) and Scott Tuia<\/strong> (Donnybrook) who travelled with Brooke Koenig and Paul Oldfield (Tennis West).<\/p>\n

All athletes competed in both, singles and doubles events, across two AR tournaments; 2016 NT Age Championships and 2016 Darwin Age Titles from the 24th<\/sup> June \u2013 4th<\/sup> July, 2016.<\/p>\n

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RTD Athlete highlights;<\/p>\n

2016 NT Age Championships<\/strong><\/p>\n

Kennedy: 14&U Doubles Semi-Final and 16&U Singles Quarter-Final<\/p>\n

Scott: 14&U Doubles Semi-Final<\/p>\n

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2016 Darwin Age Titles<\/strong><\/p>\n

Scott: 12&U Singles and Doubles Quarter-Final<\/p>\n

Kennedy: 16&U Finalist Consolation, 16&U Doubles Semi-Final<\/p>\n

Grace: 12&U Singles Quarter-Finals Consolation<\/p>\n

Kaitlyn: 14&U Singles Quarter-Finals Consolation<\/p>\n

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Whilst on tour, athletes learnt how to warm-up correctly, used match recording sheets and personality charts to track progression, encouraged to keep a logbook and learnt many valuable life skills.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Tennis West would like to thanks the Department of Sport and Recreation<\/strong> with their ongoing support to the development of tennis in country WA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tennis West invited 8 athletes living in regional Western Australia the opportunity to travel to Darwin as part of the, Regional Talent Development (RTD) program, supported by the Department of Sport & Recreation. Five athletes, aged between 12 and 13 years old, accepted the invitation on the subsidised tour who included; Grace Fisher (Beverley), Kaitlyn […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5812,"featured_media":11365,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11364","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\/11364","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=11364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11364\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}