{"id":437681,"date":"2026-02-21T09:39:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T09:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/437681\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T09:39:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T09:39:07","slug":"call-for-tennis-players-to-have-say-in-winter-county-cup-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/437681\/","title":{"rendered":"Call for tennis players to have say in Winter County Cup future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Salmon, a former tennis coach, said the LTA sent an email about ending the competition, and described the decision as a surprise.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;There was an email in October which went to the men and women captains of each county, saying last November&#8217;s event would be the last ever.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It was a bolt from the blue for players, captains and supporters. We were all asking the question of why.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The following day, Salmon set up the &#8220;Friends of County Cup&#8221; Facebook group, to &#8220;celebrate&#8221; county tennis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We all feel the LTA should have consulted everyone before making a decision with key stakeholders, ex-players, captains and supporters,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Salmon, a former tennis coach, said the LTA sent an email about ending the competition, and described the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":437682,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-437681","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\/437681","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=437681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437681\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/437682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=437681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=437681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=437681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}