{"id":5305,"date":"2013-01-14T08:34:10","date_gmt":"2013-01-14T00:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/?p=5305"},"modified":"2013-01-14T08:34:10","modified_gmt":"2013-01-14T00:34:10","slug":"wilson-named-official-ball-of-tennis-west","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/news\/2013\/01\/14\/wilson-named-official-ball-of-tennis-west","title":{"rendered":"Wilson Named Official Ball of Tennis West"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/news\/2013\/01\/14\/wilson-named-official-ball-of-tennis-west\/attachment\/wilson\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5306\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5306\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/files\/2013\/01\/Wilson-410x118.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"410\" height=\"118\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tennis West has signed a 2-year sponsorship deal with leading sports equipment manufacturer Wilson as the \u2018Official Ball of Tennis West\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Tennis West welcomed the partnership with Wilson as a positive step forward for the West Australian tennis community.<\/p>\n<p>Chief Executive Officer of Tennis West, Michael Robertson, reflects on his involvement with Wilson as a professional tennis player.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cHaving played with Wilson racquets early in my career and using the Wilson ball over a long period of time, I am thrilled Tennis West will have an association with one of the world\u2019s premier sports companies. Wilson\u2019s commitment to both research and development and \u00a0the quality of products will ensure players of all levels in Western Australia will continue to maximise their performance and enjoyment.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Commercial Manager of Wilson Racquet Sports, Anthony Voyage is also excited to partner with Tennis West.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cWilson is certainly excited at the new opportunities that the Tennis West Agreement presents. We see the WA market as a sleeping giant, underpinned by fantastic weather and conditions ripe for growing the sport. \u00a0Through this formal partnership we will be actively engaged with those at the coal face of the sport in Western Australia and look forward to fostering a long lasting relationship and affiliation with players, coaches, clubs and retailers in this expansive region. We feel this is very much a natural decision for Wilson and we look forward to working closely with Tennis West in entrenching the sport of tennis in the hearts and minds of Western Australians.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Wilson Racquet Sports is a division of Chicago-based Wilson Sporting Goods, one of the world&#8217;s leading manufacturers of sports equipment and owned by Amer Sports.\u00a0 For more information, visit <a title=\"Wilson\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wilson.com\" target=\"_blank\">www.wilson.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>For further information <\/em>please contact Rose-Marie Linke on 6462 8303 or <a href=\"mailto:rlinke@tennis.com.au\">rlinke@tennis.com.au<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tennis West has signed a 2-year sponsorship deal with leading sports equipment manufacturer Wilson as the \u2018Official Ball of Tennis West\u2019. Tennis West welcomed the partnership with Wilson as a positive step forward for the West Australian tennis community. Chief Executive Officer of Tennis West, Michael Robertson, reflects on his involvement with Wilson as a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5894,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5305","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=5305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5305\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}