{"id":521761,"date":"2026-04-09T16:50:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T16:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/521761\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T16:50:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T16:50:14","slug":"dublin-to-host-pre-wimbledon-atp-challenger-tournament-in-june-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/521761\/","title":{"rendered":"Dublin to host pre-Wimbledon ATP Challenger tournament in June \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Ireland will host a first ATP Challenger event in almost 20 years in June when the tour comes to Dublin.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The Challenger 75 tournament will be staged at Elm Park Golf &amp; Sports Club in Donnybrook on June 14th-20th, welcoming players from the second tier of men\u2019s professional tennis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">With 75 ATP ranking points up for grabs, the grass-court event is expected to draw international hopefuls in the week before Wimbledon qualifying begins.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The last Challenger event held in Ireland was the Shelbourne Irish Open in 2008.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cBringing an ATP Challenger event back to Ireland is a huge moment for Irish tennis,\u201d said Tennis Ireland chair Ronan Reid.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cIt gives out players a rare chance to compete against world-class opposition at home and puts Ireland firmly back on the international tennis map.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ireland will host a first ATP Challenger event in almost 20 years in June when the tour comes&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":521762,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[33792,101,118,33794,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-521761","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-bestof","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-tennis","11":"tag-topix","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521761","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=521761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521761\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/521762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=521761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=521761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=521761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}