{"id":827181,"date":"2026-07-26T13:02:32","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T13:02:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/827181\/"},"modified":"2026-07-26T13:02:32","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T13:02:32","slug":"this-year-the-tennis-tournament-adds-pickleball-and-ping-pong-memphis-local-sports-business-food-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/827181\/","title":{"rendered":"This year the tennis tournament adds pickleball and Ping-Pong &#8211; Memphis Local, Sports, Business &#038; Food News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When a small group of tennis players gathered at the old Racquet Club of Memphis in 1998, they had a simple idea: combine their love of the game with a desire to support the Boys &amp; Girls Clubs of Greater Memphis.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Twenty-eight years later, that idea has grown into one of the Mid-South\u2019s longest-running amateur tennis traditions.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bgcm.org\/events\/tennis-invitational\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">The Boys &amp; Girls Clubs of Greater Memphis Tennis Invitational<\/a>, set for Aug. 7-8, has raised more than $2.7 million since its inception, helping provide after-school programs, workforce training and mentorship for more than 7,000 children each year across Memphis.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>This is an excerpt of this story. To read more,\u00a0please <a href=\"https:\/\/dailymemphian.com\/subscribe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">click here and subscribe.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#13;&#13;&#13;&#13;&#13;&#13;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When a small group of tennis players gathered at the old Racquet Club of Memphis in 1998, they&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":827182,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-827181","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\/827181","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=827181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/827181\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/827182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=827181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=827181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=827181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}