{"id":1352,"date":"2015-01-12T09:29:10","date_gmt":"2015-01-12T09:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zookie.com.au\/?page_id=1352"},"modified":"2024-01-05T12:24:18","modified_gmt":"2024-01-05T12:24:18","slug":"the-best-ball-boys-in-the-world","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.zookie.com.au\/pawesome\/news\/the-best-ball-boys-in-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"The best ball boys in the world"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"review\">\n<p class=\"txt\">Why use ball boys when you can employ the help of your trusted four-legged pals? That\u2019s exactly what happened recently when Venus Williams took to the court with two-time Grand Slam winner Svetlana Kuznetsova for a friendly match in Auckland, New Zealand at the ASB Classic. Match goers discovered the ball boys were of the canine kind.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fluid-width-video-wrapper\"><iframe id=\"fitvid396902\" style=\"width: 100%; height: 366px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QK_83cnHbE4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p class=\"txt\">Fetching balls were a rescued Bull Mastiff named Oscar, a Border Collie named Ted and a Jack Russell\/Norfolk Terrier\/Miniature Schnauzer mix named Super Teddy-each looking super cute and sporty with sweat bands on their legs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"txt\">On-lookers, plus our tennis stars, looked on in glee as the triumphant ball-catching trio dashed across the tennis court collecting the balls. Of course, they each got a few Scooby snacks along the way for good behaviour. Well deserved, we say!<\/p>\n<p class=\"txt\">\nLet\u2019s hope we\u2019ll be seeing Oscar, Ted and Super Ted at more sporting events!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why use ball boys when you can employ the help of your trusted four-legged pals? That\u2019s exactly what happened recently when Venus Williams took to the court with two-time Grand Slam winner Svetlana Kuznetsova for a friendly match in Auckland, New Zealand at the ASB Classic. Match goers discovered the ball boys were of the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zookie.com.au\/pawesome\/news\/the-best-ball-boys-in-the-world\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The best ball boys in the world&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1001,"parent":1076,"menu_order":451,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"sub-sub-details-page.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zookie.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1352"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zookie.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zookie.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zookie.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zookie.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1352"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.zookie.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4339,"href":"https:\/\/www.zookie.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1352\/revisions\/4339"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zookie.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1076"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zookie.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zookie.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}