{"id":519065,"date":"2026-04-08T07:02:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T07:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/519065\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T07:02:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T07:02:07","slug":"four-banstead-pupils-chosen-as-ball-boys-and-girls-at-wimbledon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/519065\/","title":{"rendered":"Four Banstead pupils chosen as ball boys and girls at Wimbledon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Four pupils from a school in Surrey have been selected from more than 500 candidates to be ball boys and ball girls at Wimbledon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Oscar, Caitlin, Adam and Oliver, who go to The Beacon School in Banstead, will be among about 250 pupils from years nine and ten at the summer tennis tournament.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Physical education teacher Nathan Sasson picked the quartet to attend official try outs in February, after which they were selected.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Oscar said he was aiming to &#8220;follow in the footsteps&#8221; of his mother and uncle, who were previously selected for the honour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Four pupils from a school in Surrey have been selected from more than 500 candidates to be ball&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":519066,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-519065","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\/519065","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=519065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519065\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/519066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=519065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=519065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=519065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}