{"id":472330,"date":"2026-02-11T07:11:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T07:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/472330\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T07:11:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T07:11:07","slug":"anyone-for-tennis-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/472330\/","title":{"rendered":"Anyone for tennis? \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Sir, \u2013 Last weekend Ireland played Syria in a Davis Cup relegation playoff. Your newspaper seems not to have noticed. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">It was an exciting if eventually disappointing fixture. Ireland had two match points in the crucial doubles clash on Sunday but failed to clinch them. Syria took a winning lead with victory in the first of the reverse singles. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">You wouldn\u2019t know any of this if you were depending on The Irish Times. I realise tennis is a relatively minor sport in Ireland but surely our national team, playing on home soil, merits coverage in the paper of record? \u2013 Yours, etc,<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Dr Kevin T Ryan,<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Castletroy,<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Limerick.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sir, \u2013 Last weekend Ireland played Syria in a Davis Cup relegation playoff. Your newspaper seems not to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":363596,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":["post-472330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=472330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472330\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/363596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=472330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=472330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=472330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}