{"id":588616,"date":"2026-05-17T07:39:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T07:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/588616\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T07:39:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T07:39:08","slug":"new-tennis-courts-at-miners-welfare-in-mexborough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/588616\/","title":{"rendered":"New tennis courts at miners&#8217; welfare in Mexborough"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">As well as tennis, there are outdoor pitches for football and cricket at the site on New Oxford Road.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Chair of Mexborough Tennis Club, Chris Skelton, said:  &#8220;The club had new courts done back in the mid-1990s and nothing has been done since. We&#8217;re completely renovating the facilities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We&#8217;ve never had floodlights before, so that&#8217;s going to improve playability throughout the year, which should be fantastic for everybody concerned.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Shaun Bennett from Mexborough Miners&#8217; Welfare added: &#8220;The funding is a fantastic boost for Mexborough Miners&#8217; Welfare, the tennis club and the wider community. These improvements will create first-class facilities, encourage more people to get involved in tennis and ensure the courts can be enjoyed all year round.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The tennis club said work was well under way and was expected to be finished before the end of July.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As well as tennis, there are outdoor pitches for football and cricket at the site on New Oxford&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":588617,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-588616","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\/588616","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=588616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588616\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/588617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=588616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=588616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=588616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}