{"id":38271,"date":"2025-08-01T14:14:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T14:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/38271\/"},"modified":"2025-08-01T14:14:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T14:14:08","slug":"padel-plans-to-convert-london-2012-venue-tennis-courts-shelved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/38271\/","title":{"rendered":"Padel: Plans to convert London 2012 venue tennis courts shelved"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They said that the assessment will &#8220;take a strategic look at facilities on the Eton Manor site, be underpinned by the need to have regional appeal and commercial viability and involve engagement with people who use the venue and other interested parties&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Tennis and padel will be fully considered as part of the review,&#8221; the spokesperson added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Lawn Tennis Association (LTA), the governing body for both padel in Britain, said that the sport now has 400,000 players. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The body said there are about 900 courts across 300 venues, but with increasing popularity this does not meet demand. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, the LTA had opposed the LVPRA&#8217;s plans to repurpose the tennis courts, arguing it had invested in the centre&#8217;s &#8220;legacy&#8221; of the Olympics. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"They said that the assessment will &#8220;take a strategic look at facilities on the Eton Manor site, be&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":38272,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-38271","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\/38271","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=38271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38271\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}