{"id":7766,"date":"2013-10-22T15:39:43","date_gmt":"2013-10-22T07:39:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/?p=7766"},"modified":"2013-10-22T15:39:43","modified_gmt":"2013-10-22T07:39:43","slug":"alexander-park-tennis-club-in-menora-has-much-to-celebrate-this-new-seasonincluding-its-first-ever-junior-girls-state-league-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/news\/2013\/10\/22\/alexander-park-tennis-club-in-menora-has-much-to-celebrate-this-new-seasonincluding-its-first-ever-junior-girls-state-league-team","title":{"rendered":"Alexander Park Tennis Club in Menora has much to celebrate this new season\u2026including its first ever Junior Girls\u2019 State League team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/news\/2013\/10\/22\/alexander-park-tennis-club-in-menora-has-much-to-celebrate-this-new-seasonincluding-its-first-ever-junior-girls-state-league-team\/attachment\/alexander-park-tc-junior-state-league\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7767\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-7767\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/files\/2013\/10\/Alexander-Park-TC-Junior-State-League-361x306.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"361\" height=\"306\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is an entirely \u2018home grown\u2019 team with all the girls joining as members of the Club at very early ages.<\/p>\n<p><strong>APTC\u2019s<\/strong> Club Professional<strong> Ian Ketteringham<\/strong>, along with his coaching team, has nurtured all the girls along the player pathway of junior pennant and tournament competition.<\/p>\n<p>In particular, <strong>Jasmine Carswell<\/strong> at 14 years and the team\u2019s captain, has gained significant experience and success at singles and doubles in 2013, being the winner at the following tournaments:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; <em>Goldfields Financial Solutions State Hardcourts \u2013 OJT<\/em><br \/>\n&#8211; <em>Gold Style Homes Hensman Park Junior<\/em><br \/>\n&#8211; <em>South Perth Junior Open<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0By virtue of her high Australian tennis ranking, <strong>Jasmine<\/strong> also participated at the recent <em>12s and 14s Spring Nationals held in Sydney<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Also in 2013-14, the Club is very proud to celebrate the <strong>\u201cYear of the Female @ APTC\u201d,<\/strong> with the intent being to encourage greater female participation at tennis and Club socials.<\/p>\n<p>The Club\u2019s initiatives include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>the<strong> \u201cPink Ribbon Tea and Try Tennis Open Day\u201d<\/strong> held in October<\/li>\n<li>regular <strong>Sunday Social Tennis<\/strong> sessions<\/li>\n<li>more females entered in to <strong>Tennis West <\/strong><em>pennant competition<\/em><\/li>\n<li>the creation of a new <strong>Ladies Club Captain<\/strong> role<\/li>\n<li>2 for 1 membership offer for women new to the Club.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is an entirely \u2018home grown\u2019 team with all the girls joining as members of the Club at very early ages. APTC\u2019s Club Professional Ian Ketteringham, along with his coaching team, has nurtured all the girls along the player pathway of junior pennant and tournament competition. In particular, Jasmine Carswell at 14 years and the [&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-7766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7766","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=7766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7766\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}