{"id":470306,"date":"2026-02-12T14:07:02","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T14:07:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/470306\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T14:07:02","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T14:07:02","slug":"federers-hall-of-fame-induction-ceremony-sells-out-in-2-minutes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/470306\/","title":{"rendered":"Federer&#8217;s Hall of Fame induction ceremony sells out in 2 minutes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Feb 11, 2026, 04:21 PM ET<\/p>\n<p>NEWPORT, R.I. &#8212; The International Tennis Hall of Fame said on Wednesday that Roger Federer&#8217;s induction ceremony sold out in two minutes &#8212; even after the Hall added thousands more tickets for an outdoor watch party.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As a small but historic venue, our capacity is limited,&#8221; the Hall posted on social media.<\/p>\n<p>The Hall said it anticipated the excitement about the first man to win 20 Grand Slam singles titles, who will be inducted in the Newport-based shrine on Aug. 29 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 prepare for upcoming induction ceremonies to honor Federer and <a data-player-guid=\"cc4fbfff-5162-cb94-e0aa-500d3227a300\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=394\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Serena Williams<\/a>, who will be eligible next year unless she makes a comeback.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Feb 11, 2026, 04:21 PM ET NEWPORT, R.I. &#8212; The International Tennis Hall of Fame said on Wednesday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":470307,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-470306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470306","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=470306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470306\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/470307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=470306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=470306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=470306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}