{"id":8343,"date":"2014-01-30T09:53:27","date_gmt":"2014-01-30T01:53:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/?p=8343"},"modified":"2014-01-30T09:53:27","modified_gmt":"2014-01-30T01:53:27","slug":"melville-palmyra-tennis-club-facility-upgrade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/news\/2014\/01\/30\/melville-palmyra-tennis-club-facility-upgrade","title":{"rendered":"Melville Palmyra Tennis Club Facility Upgrade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8346\" alt=\"Hot Shots Mini Court\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/files\/2014\/01\/Hot-Shots-Mini-Court-410x273.jpg\" width=\"410\" height=\"273\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Melville Palmyra Tennis Club has recently completed a series of projects aimed at upgrading the Melville Tennis Centre facilities.<\/p>\n<p>The venue\u2019s five hard courts have been resurfaced with the Rebound Ace Pro cushioned acrylic system, in a two-tone blue similar to the Plexicushion courts played on at the Australian Open. For the very young players, a dedicated MLC Tennis Hot Shots mini court has been installed, which will be used by the Club Coach.<\/p>\n<p>The resurfacing of the courts cost over $50,000, with the club meeting the major part of the project cost. The club\u2019s successful application to the National Court Rebate Scheme means that Tennis Australia will reimburse approximately one-third of the cost, while additional funding was secured through a City of Melville grant.<\/p>\n<p>As well as the court upgrade, Melville Palmyra has installed three shade sails in addition to its previous two, to protect spectators from the sun. A Healthway grant assisted with the cost of purchasing and installing the new shade sails.<\/p>\n<p>The newly resurfaced courts are available for public hire, in addition to Melville Palmyra\u2019s nine grass courts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Melville Palmyra Tennis Club has recently completed a series of projects aimed at upgrading the Melville Tennis Centre facilities. The venue\u2019s five hard courts have been resurfaced with the Rebound Ace Pro cushioned acrylic system, in a two-tone blue similar to the Plexicushion courts played on at the Australian Open. For the very young [&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-8343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8343","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=8343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8343\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}