{"id":11774,"date":"2017-01-17T10:59:37","date_gmt":"2017-01-17T02:59:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/?p=11774"},"modified":"2017-01-17T11:04:43","modified_gmt":"2017-01-17T03:04:43","slug":"wa-towns-secure-main-draw-players-to-cheer-on-during-the-ao-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/news\/2017\/01\/17\/wa-towns-secure-main-draw-players-to-cheer-on-during-the-ao-2017","title":{"rendered":"WA Towns Secure Main Draw Players to cheer on during the AO 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"

Congratulations to the following WA towns on securing an Australian Open 2017 player to represent them during the Grand Slam.<\/p>\n

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Towns received eligibility to enter this competition by hosting a Free Tennis Day in 2016, with all eligible clubs going into a ballot for their chance to secure main draw players.<\/p>\n

Remember, if you want to interact with this competition, tag Tennis Australia<\/strong> and Australian Open<\/strong> on social media using #GetCourtUp<\/strong><\/p>\n

Here is the most recent player and town allocation:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Player First Name<\/strong><\/td>\nPlayer Surname<\/strong><\/td>\nCountry<\/strong><\/td>\nTown<\/strong><\/td>\nClub<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Belinda<\/td>\nBencic<\/td>\nSUI<\/td>\nAlbany<\/td>\nLawley Park Tennis Club<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Dustin<\/td>\nBrown<\/td>\nGER<\/td>\nApplecross<\/td>\nApplecross Tennis Club<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Roger<\/td>\nFederer<\/td>\nSUI<\/td>\nAustralind<\/td>\nAustralind Tennis Club<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Johanna<\/td>\nKonta<\/td>\nGBR<\/td>\nBayswater<\/td>\nBayswater Tennis Club<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Heather<\/td>\nWatson<\/td>\nGBR<\/td>\nBoyup Brook<\/td>\nBoyup Brook Tennis Club<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Pablo<\/td>\nCarreno Busta<\/td>\nESP<\/td>\nBrunswick<\/td>\nBrunswick Tennis Club<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Nicolas<\/td>\nAlmagro<\/td>\nESP<\/td>\nBunbury<\/td>\nBunbury Tennis Club<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Tommy<\/td>\nHaas<\/td>\nGER<\/td>\nDonnybrook<\/td>\nDonnybrook Tennis Club<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Camila<\/td>\nGiorgi<\/td>\nITA<\/td>\nDuncraig<\/td>\nSorrento Tennis Club<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Federico<\/td>\nDelbonis<\/td>\nARG<\/td>\nEast Fremantle<\/td>\nEast Fremantle Lawn Tennis Club<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Karen<\/td>\nKhachanov<\/td>\nRUS<\/td>\nFremantle<\/td>\nFremantle Lawn Tennis Club<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Gilles<\/td>\nSimon<\/td>\nFRA<\/td>\nGeraldton<\/td>\nGeraldton Tennis Club<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Madison<\/td>\nBrengle<\/td>\nUSA<\/td>\nGlen Forrest<\/td>\nGlen Forrest Tennis Club<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Michael<\/td>\nMmoh<\/td>\nUSA<\/td>\nGreenwood<\/td>\nGreenwood Tennis Club<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Mandy<\/td>\nMinella<\/td>\nLUX<\/td>\nKalamunda<\/td>\nKalamunda Tennis Club<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Jerzy<\/td>\nJanowicz<\/td>\nPOL<\/td>\nKendenup<\/td>\nKendenup Tennis Club<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thanasi<\/td>\nKokkinakis<\/td>\nAUS<\/td>\nManning<\/td>\nManning Tennis Club<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Bernard<\/td>\nTomic<\/td>\nAUS<\/td>\nMerredin<\/td>\nMerredin Districts Lawn Tennis Club<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Madison<\/td>\nKeys<\/td>\nUSA<\/td>\nMosman Park<\/td>\nMosman Park Tennis Club<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Catherine<\/td>\nBellis<\/td>\nUSA<\/td>\nNabawa<\/td>\nChapman Valley Tennis Club<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Johanna<\/td>\nLarsson<\/td>\nSWE<\/td>\nPingelly<\/td>\nPingelly Tennis Club<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Elina<\/td>\nSvitolina<\/td>\nUKR<\/td>\nRockingham<\/td>\nRockingham Tennis Club<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Kristina<\/td>\nMladenovic<\/td>\nFRA<\/td>\nSouth Perth<\/td>\nSouth Perth Lawn Tennis Club<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Nicolas<\/td>\nMahut<\/td>\nFRA<\/td>\nSpearwood<\/td>\nCockburn Tennis Club<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sara<\/td>\nErrani<\/td>\nITA<\/td>\nVictoria Park<\/td>\nHiggins Park Tennis Club<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

PRIZES FOR TOWNS<\/p>\n

The major prize will be $5,000 for both the Women\u2019s and Men\u2019s champions\u2019 towns. If there is more than one club in that town eligible for the competition, the prizemoney will be split between the clubs.<\/p>\n

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Congratulations to the following WA towns on securing an Australian Open 2017 player to represent them during the Grand Slam. Towns received eligibility to enter this competition by hosting a Free Tennis Day in 2016, with all eligible clubs going into a ballot for their chance to secure main draw players. Remember, if you want […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5812,"featured_media":11775,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11774","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\/11774","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=11774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11774\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}