{"id":455734,"date":"2026-03-03T18:41:17","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T18:41:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/455734\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T18:41:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T18:41:17","slug":"tim-henman-backs-padel-courts-at-new-wimbledon-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/455734\/","title":{"rendered":"Tim Henman backs padel courts at new Wimbledon site"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cBut I see it as another string to the bow of tennis clubs that more people get in there, more people are playing sport, being active, utilising those facilities, having a drink at the bar and having fun at a club.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it\u2019s a good thing and I\u2019m a fan, I\u2019m a supporter.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For Laura Robson, the former British No 1, the desire for SW19 to introduce padel courts is a personal one, even if she does not believe it is necessary.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t think Wimbledon is dying for padel courts. If we get the space over the road, there\u2019s so much opportunity to do a million things over there,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSelfishly, it\u2019d be very beneficial because I always struggle to get a court, so it\u2019d be very handy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sky Sports will show live coverage from Indian Wells and the Miami Open in March<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cBut I see it as another string to the bow of tennis clubs that more people get in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":455735,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[11968,217,101,5438,118,56,54,55,164415],"class_list":["post-455734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-padel","tag-sport","tag-sports","tag-standard","tag-tennis","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-wimbledon-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455734","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=455734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455734\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/455735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=455734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=455734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=455734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}