{"id":202333,"date":"2025-10-15T17:55:03","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T17:55:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/202333\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T17:55:03","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T17:55:03","slug":"tennis-stars-urge-council-not-to-turn-facility-into-padel-courts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/202333\/","title":{"rendered":"Tennis stars urge council not to turn facility into padel courts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Scotstoun hosts two ATP Challenger Tour and ITF World Tennis Tour events each year, usually in February and October.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mr Dodds said those events would no longer be able to take place in Glasgow if the padel plan went ahead, as the full eight courts are always needed for both matches and practice.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A number of other competitions that require the full amount of current courts to be used would also be at risk, as less courts would &#8220;significantly compromise the tournament&#8217;s efficiency and quality&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He estimated this would cost around \u00a360,000 to the city, via money lost through direct court rental, secondary site spending and overnight accommodation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Scotstoun hosts two ATP Challenger Tour and ITF World Tennis Tour events each year, usually in February and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":202334,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-202333","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-sports","9":"tag-tennis","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202333\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}