{"id":16595,"date":"2021-07-22T00:12:20","date_gmt":"2021-07-21T16:12:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/?p=16595"},"modified":"2021-08-28T09:20:35","modified_gmt":"2021-08-28T01:20:35","slug":"family-affair-as-two-time-olympian-john-peers-hits-the-courts-in-tokyo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/news\/2021\/07\/22\/family-affair-as-two-time-olympian-john-peers-hits-the-courts-in-tokyo","title":{"rendered":"Family affair as two-time Olympian John Peers hits the courts in Tokyo"},"content":{"rendered":"

Two-time Olympian, Grand Slam Champion and West Australia\u2019s adopted son, John Peers<\/strong>, will hit the courts in Tokyo<\/strong> on Saturday when he lines up for the Olympic Men\u2019s Doubles<\/strong> event alongside countryman and Olympic debutant, Max Purcell. <\/strong><\/p>\n

Boasting 24 doubles career titles<\/strong> and a doubles ranking of world No. 25<\/strong>, Peers will lead the charge for the Olympic duo as doubles specialist, world No. 39 (doubles) and 2020 Australian Open Men\u2019s Doubles Finalist, Purcell, dons the green and gold for the first time.<\/p>\n

With professional athletes common place in the Peers household, the 32 year-old will be well supported from afar with wife and former professional golfer, Danielle Montgomery; mother and former professional tennis player, Elizabeth Peers (nee Little); and sister and former professional tennis player and Commonwealth Games athlete, Sally Peers, all cheering at home from the sidelines.<\/p>\n

Excited to have been selected for what will be his second Olympic games, Peers says it\u2019s a huge honour and privilege to be representing himself, his team and his country in Tokyo.<\/p>\n

\u2018It\u2019s a huge honour anytime you get to represent Australia, especially being able to go to my second Olympics,\u2019<\/p>\n

\u2018It\u2019s something as a child you always dream of and to start saying that I\u2019m going to be a two-time Olympian is giving me goose bumps,\u2019<\/p>\n

\u2018It\u2019s something I\u2019m very privileged to be able to do and I\u2019m really looking forward to the opportunity,\u2019<\/p>\n

\u2018I know every time you pull on the green and gold you\u2019re not just playing for yourself or your team, you\u2019re playing for everyone back home,\u2019<\/p>\n

\u2018To be able to make your childhood dreams a reality is something very special and I know so many people back home are going to be cheering us on,\u2019<\/p>\n

Tennis West CEO, Brett Patten<\/strong>, says it\u2019s a wonderful achievement for Peers to have been selected for what will be his second Olympic games.<\/p>\n

\u2018John has become a familiar and friendly face at the State Tennis Centre since he relocated to Perth in 2017 and the Tennis West team are thrilled by his selection to compete in Tokyo,\u2019<\/p>\n

\u2018We see how hard John trains when he\u2019s in using our facilities at the State Tennis Centre and we\u2019re excited to be a part of supporting his professional playing career and Olympic medal bid,\u2019<\/p>\n

\u2018From everyone at Tennis West, we wish John and Max all the very best in the Men\u2019s Doubles event in Tokyo and we look forward to cheering them on from afar.\u2019 Patten said.<\/p>\n

WA\u2019s Storm Sanders<\/strong> who line up with Wimbledon Champion and world No. 1, Ash Barty, will join Peers in Tokyo as she takes to the court in her Olympic debut.<\/p>\n

Read John\u2019s Olympic Bio here<\/a><\/p>\n

Find out more about the impressive career of John Peers here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Two-time Olympian, Grand Slam Champion and West Australia\u2019s adopted son, John Peers, will hit the courts in Tokyo on Saturday when he lines up for the Olympic Men\u2019s Doubles event alongside countryman and Olympic debutant, Max Purcell. Boasting 24 doubles career titles and a doubles ranking of world No. 25, Peers will lead the charge […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6203,"featured_media":16596,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16595","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\/16595","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\/6203"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16595\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}