{"id":779438,"date":"2026-07-04T08:35:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T08:35:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/779438\/"},"modified":"2026-07-04T08:35:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T08:35:14","slug":"charity-serves-up-free-and-low-cost-tennis-to-london-pupils","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/779438\/","title":{"rendered":"Charity serves up free and low-cost tennis to London pupils"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Paragraph-styles__ParagraphStyled-sc-ffb5f5ba-0 jLDVdT\">With British tennis firmly in the spotlight, a south London charity is opening up the sport to the next generation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph-styles__ParagraphStyled-sc-ffb5f5ba-0 jLDVdT\">Young Champs is helping break down barriers to tennis, giving hundreds of children from underrepresented and lower-income backgrounds access to affordable coaching through its ACE (A Chance for Everyone) campaign.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph-styles__ParagraphStyled-sc-ffb5f5ba-0 jLDVdT\">The charity is being backed by world number one blind tennis champion Naqi Rizvi, who demonstrates how he competes using the sound of an adapted ball.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph-styles__ParagraphStyled-sc-ffb5f5ba-0 jLDVdT\">Video by Wendy Hurrell <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With British tennis firmly in the spotlight, a south London charity is opening up the sport to the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":779439,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-779438","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\/779438","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=779438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779438\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/779439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=779438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=779438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=779438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}