{"id":21754,"date":"2026-06-16T11:30:41","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T03:30:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/?p=21754"},"modified":"2026-06-16T11:31:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T03:31:12","slug":"hot-shots-crew-launches-competition-to-send-aussie-family-to-the-us-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/news\/2026\/06\/16\/hot-shots-crew-launches-competition-to-send-aussie-family-to-the-us-open","title":{"rendered":"Hot Shots Crew launches competition to send Aussie family to the US Open"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

One Hot Shots Tennis player and their family will win an all-expenses-paid trip to New York for the US Open, including an exclusive behind the scenes Grand Slam experience.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Backed by Aussie tennis stars Alex de Minaur<\/strong> and Ajla Tomljanovic<\/strong>, the national competition opens on 16 June for official members of the Hot Shots Tennis Crew. To enter, kids simply answer in 25 words or less who they want to win the US Open and why.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Hot Shots Crew offers kids incredible opportunities, and winning this trip would be an unforgettable experience for an entire family,\u201d said de Minaur.<\/p>\n

Valued at $25,000, the prize includes return flights to New York City for a family of four, seven nights\u2019 accommodation, US Open tickets, a behind-the-scenes tour, access to player practice sessions and $3,000 spending money.<\/p>\n

Last year, Mabel from Perth travelled to New York with her family and met some of Australia\u2019s biggest tennis stars.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was such a special experience to welcome Mabel and her family to the US Open last year, and hear her winning poem firsthand,\u201d said World No.53 Maya Joint.<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n

Mabel from Perth won last year\u2019s competition with her standout poem:<\/p>\n

I\u2019m 6 and I cheer<\/em><\/p>\n

In her shades Maya has no fear<\/em><\/p>\n

She\u2019s Aussie, she\u2019s fun<\/em><\/p>\n

Maya Joint is number one!<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/p>\n

Mabel, her brother Albert and their parents travelled to New York, where they met Joint, World No. 6 Alex de Minaur and World No. 96 Ajla Tomljanovic.<\/p>\n

Entries open 16 June until 5 July 2026. For more information on the Hot Shots Crew and how to win a trip to the US Open, visit here: Hot Shots | Win a Trip to the US Open<\/strong><\/a> \u00a0<\/p>\n

To be eligible, you must be a member of the Hot Shots Crew.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One Hot Shots Tennis player and their family will win an all-expenses-paid trip to New York for the US Open, including an exclusive behind the scenes Grand Slam experience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6359,"featured_media":21755,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21754","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\/21754","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\/6359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21754\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}