{"id":310382,"date":"2025-12-11T08:05:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T08:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/310382\/"},"modified":"2025-12-11T08:05:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T08:05:10","slug":"sussex-para-standing-tennis-stars-on-hopes-to-grow-sport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/310382\/","title":{"rendered":"Sussex para-standing tennis stars on hopes to &#8216;grow sport&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Para-standing tennis is supported by the International Tennis Federation, with more than 400 recognised players now competing in the sport. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">There is hope from many players that they can mount a bid to be part of future Paralympics events.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Grover, who is also the current para-standing tennis World Singles Champion, said: &#8220;When you look at other variations of sport, like table tennis and badminton, they have a standing and wheelchair class at major events.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He added: &#8220;We want the standing class to be part of grand slams and the Paralympics in the future.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The pair have had first hand experience of interest from spectators at major events.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Grover said: &#8220;I played on court next to Daniel Medvedev, there were huge crowds watching us that day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;There are fans that are engaged, it&#8217;s just trying to grow that.&#8221; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Para-standing tennis is supported by the International Tennis Federation, with more than 400 recognised players now competing in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":310383,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-310382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310382","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=310382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310382\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/310383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}