{"id":189472,"date":"2025-12-13T09:30:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-13T09:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/189472\/"},"modified":"2025-12-13T09:30:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T09:30:09","slug":"how-pickleball-game-is-starting-to-take-centre-court-in-wicklow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/189472\/","title":{"rendered":"How pickleball game is starting to take centre court in Wicklow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">It\u2019s sociable. It\u2019s fun. It\u2019s a fast growing sport. And it\u2019s a big pastime in Roundwood, as pickleball enthusiast Cindy Hayes explains\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Cindy Hayes and Theresa Cowman of Wicklow Pickleball. Photo: Leigh Anderson\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/WP 22A50.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Cindy Hayes and Theresa Cowman of Wicklow Pickleball. Photo: Leigh Anderson<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The chances are that most readers have barely heard of pickleball, let alone played it. Yet followers of the sport in the US<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\"> claim that more than 19 million people tried their hand at pickleball in that country last year. Not only is it a popular pastime for all ages in the States, but it has spawned a full-time professional circuit there for the top talents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s sociable. It\u2019s fun. It\u2019s a fast growing sport. And it\u2019s a big pastime in Roundwood, as pickleball&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":189473,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[24533,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-189472","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-david-medcalf","9":"tag-headlines","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-top-news","12":"tag-top-stories","13":"tag-topnews","14":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189472\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}