{"id":4333,"date":"2012-05-30T11:15:11","date_gmt":"2012-05-30T03:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/?p=4333"},"modified":"2012-05-30T11:15:11","modified_gmt":"2012-05-30T03:15:11","slug":"sri-lankan-national-netball-team-take-on-the-cardio-tennis-burst","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/news\/2012\/05\/30\/sri-lankan-national-netball-team-take-on-the-cardio-tennis-burst","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lankan National Netball Team take on the Cardio Tennis Burst!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <strong>Sri Lanken National Netball team<\/strong> were spotted causing a \u2018racket\u2019 on their latest Australian Tour, tackling their most challenging court to date, centre court at the State Tennis Centre, Burswood.<\/p>\n<p>25 members of the squad put their hand up to participate in the fun filled Tennis Australia program \u2018Cardio Tennis\u2019. There were thrills and spills as the slender long limbed athletes modified their hand eye coordination to suit that of a much smaller, furrier ball variety.<\/p>\n<p>Sri Lanken captain <strong>Tharjini Sivalingam<\/strong> had this to say about the experience \u201cIt was fun, very fun. This is the first time I\u2019ve ever played tennis, they make it look so easy on tv! Cardio tennis was very good and energising, I\u2019ll sleep well tonight.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey showed some real promise out there today. They\u2019re obviously fit and very fast so their netball skills really helped them around the court. Cardio Tennis was a great fit for the netballers as it takes the emphasis off the placement of the ball but entails numerous tennis drills that helps participants get their skills and confidence up, all while working at a high hear rate\u201d. <strong>Christina Ladyman<\/strong>, Cardio Tennis Coach described.<\/p>\n<p>The squad will now remain in Australia for a further 2 months, as part of their extensive training program.<\/p>\n<p>To get involved with Cardio Tennis, contact Tennis West on 6462 8300 to get in contact with your local deliverer now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Sri Lanken National Netball team were spotted causing a \u2018racket\u2019 on their latest Australian Tour, tackling their most challenging court to date, centre court at the State Tennis Centre, Burswood. 25 members of the squad put their hand up to participate in the fun filled Tennis Australia program \u2018Cardio Tennis\u2019. There were thrills and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5894,"featured_media":4334,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4333","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\/4333","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\/5894"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4333\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}