{"id":7551,"date":"2013-10-01T12:10:24","date_gmt":"2013-10-01T04:10:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/?p=7551"},"modified":"2013-10-01T12:10:24","modified_gmt":"2013-10-01T04:10:24","slug":"blue-gum-park-tennis-club-mjds-spring-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/news\/2013\/10\/01\/blue-gum-park-tennis-club-mjds-spring-series","title":{"rendered":"Blue Gum Park Tennis Club MJDS Spring Series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/news\/2013\/10\/01\/blue-gum-park-tennis-club-mjds-spring-series\/attachment\/blue-gum-mbjd-3\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7553\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-7553\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/files\/2013\/10\/Blue-Gum-MBJD-3-408x306.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"408\" height=\"306\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>Ryan McConkey, winner Boys 14&#8217;s singles<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The brave players participating in the <strong>Medibank JDS<\/strong> this weekend at <em>Blue Gum Park TC<\/em> endured a Saturday highlighted by torrential rain and huge winds resulting in a washout of the entire day\u2019s play. The players and parents patience paid off as the Tennis Gods smiled on us on Sunday, providing the best possible conditions to complete the entire tournament. With the reduced scoring format (first to 4 game matches), we ripped through the entire tournament in one day. Although not ideal, the inventive format promoted some exciting (and stressful) tennis due to the fact that no-one had time to blink before the match was over.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/news\/2013\/10\/01\/blue-gum-park-tennis-club-mjds-spring-series\/attachment\/blue-gum-mbjd\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7612\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7612\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/files\/2013\/10\/Blue-Gum-MBJD.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>Samantha Yeates (winner girls 12\u2019s singles), Belinda Jayaprakash (runner up girls 12\u2019s singles), Dan Sewell (tournament director)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I was impressed with the willingness of players and parents to embrace the <em>turbotennis<\/em> style of match play and must say, the eventual winners all displayed steady nerves throughout the hectic day.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d like to thank <strong>Medibank<\/strong> for their continued support of the <strong>Junior Development Series<\/strong>. This series introduces many new kids to competitive tennis in a controlled, inviting environment and is a pleasure to be involved with.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d like to thank the <em>BGPTC<\/em> volunteers for making the event enjoyable and smoothly run. Special mention to <strong>Hayden Gibson<\/strong> from <em>Tennis Only<\/em> for the contribution he made to the kids prizes.<\/p>\n<p>By Dan Sewell &#8211; Tournament Director<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ryan McConkey, winner Boys 14&#8217;s singles The brave players participating in the Medibank JDS this weekend at Blue Gum Park TC endured a Saturday highlighted by torrential rain and huge winds resulting in a washout of the entire day\u2019s play. The players and parents patience paid off as the Tennis Gods smiled on us on [&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-7551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7551","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=7551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7551\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}