{"id":12078,"date":"2017-06-12T14:19:47","date_gmt":"2017-06-12T06:19:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/?p=12078"},"modified":"2017-06-12T14:20:07","modified_gmt":"2017-06-12T06:20:07","slug":"culture-exchange-over-a-net","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/news\/2017\/06\/12\/culture-exchange-over-a-net","title":{"rendered":"Culture exchange over a net"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fast serves, quick volleys and some great cultural awareness were exchanged at Cottesloe Tennis Club this week as <strong>Christ Church Grammar School&#8217;s<\/strong> Corr Cup First VIII tennis team played a \u201cfriendly\u201d with <strong>Clontarf College<\/strong> athletes.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nIndigenous boys from as far as the \u201cWestern\u201d desert, Kununurra, Port Hedland, Kalgoorlie and Moora, had tremendous fun and a lot of laughs when they teamed up with the \u201cWestern\u201d Suburbs players in doubles. Christ Church boys thoroughly enjoyed the opportunity and \u00a0generously donated their racquets at the end of the match to Clontarf to help with its tennis program.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nThe event organised by the Murlpirrmarra Connection\u2019s Darren Patten and Christ Church parent Warren Harding, was kindly hosted by Cottesloe Tennis Club, who provided courts, balls and a sausage sizzle. \u00a0The event was a success through the support of Club President Phil Barron, Ian Hutton, Dave and Georgia Culley, Christ Church Grammar School, players and parents.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Tennis Coach Rob Kilderry also ran a tennis clinic on serving and noted the enthusiasm of the boys to learn .<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It was 46 years ago that Australia\u2019s Evonne Goolagong -Cawley won the French Open and went on to become World #1.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Tennis is a sport which caters for all ages and backgrounds and hopefully this will be an annual event and help to inspire a future generation of champions.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Article written by Warren Harding.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fast serves, quick volleys and some great cultural awareness were exchanged at Cottesloe Tennis Club this week as Christ Church Grammar School&#8217;s Corr Cup First VIII tennis team played a \u201cfriendly\u201d with Clontarf College athletes. &nbsp; Indigenous boys from as far as the \u201cWestern\u201d desert, Kununurra, Port Hedland, Kalgoorlie and Moora, had tremendous fun and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5812,"featured_media":12079,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12078","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\/12078","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=12078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12078\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}