{"id":468977,"date":"2026-02-11T23:05:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T23:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/468977\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T23:05:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T23:05:11","slug":"tennis-hall-of-fame-federer-induction-ceremony-watch-party-sell-out-in-2-minutes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/468977\/","title":{"rendered":"Tennis Hall of Fame: Federer induction ceremony, watch party sell out in 2 minutes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEWPORT, R.I. (AP) \u2014 The International Tennis Hall of Fame said on Wednesday that Roger Federer\u2019s induction ceremony sold out in two minutes \u2014 even after the Hall added thousands more tickets for an outdoor watch party.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs a small but historic venue, our capacity is limited,\u201d the Hall posted on social media.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>The Hall said it anticipated the excitement about the first man to win 20 Grand Slam singles titles, who <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/roger-federer-tennis-hall-fame-b6077e1a3aefa50dc2d946631bdbc727\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:will be inducted in the Newport-based shrine on Aug. 29;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">will be inducted in the Newport-based shrine on Aug. 29<\/a> along with broadcaster Mary Carillo. In addition to the 900 tickets originally available for the induction ceremony, the Hall will open its 3,600-seat stadium for a watch party.<\/p>\n<p>Even so, the 4,500 tickets were gone within two minutes, Hall spokeswoman Megan Erbes said.<\/p>\n<p>The Tennis Hall, which is housed in the 19th Century Newport Casino, recently underwent a $3 million renovation to <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/tennis-hall-of-fame-renovations-511fbe064c6dae10d33d12959aa976e8\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:prepare for upcoming induction ceremonies;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">prepare for upcoming induction ceremonies<\/a> to honor Federer and Serena Williams, who will be eligible next year <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/serena-williams-comeback-2f83803f247a29a12790ec03f25b93ea\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:unless she makes a comeback;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">unless she makes a comeback<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>More AP tennis: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/tennis\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/tennis;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/tennis<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEWPORT, R.I. (AP) \u2014 The International Tennis Hall of Fame said on Wednesday that Roger Federer\u2019s induction ceremony&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":468978,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,191123,132593,2189,82,593,132596,132594,191124],"class_list":["post-468977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-induction-ceremony","tag-mary-carillo","tag-roger-federer","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-tennis-hall-of-fame","tag-the-hall","tag-watch-party"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=468977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468977\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/468978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=468977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=468977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=468977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}