{"id":588711,"date":"2026-05-17T09:11:19","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T09:11:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/588711\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T09:11:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T09:11:19","slug":"eastbourne-open-tennis-to-go-ahead-despite-mindless-vandalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/588711\/","title":{"rendered":"Eastbourne Open tennis to go ahead despite &#8216;mindless&#8217; vandalism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The outdoor tournament is considered a key warm-up for the Wimbledon Championships, which start a week later.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Players will include 2025 Australian Open winner Madison Keys and home favourite Sonay Kartal, who is from Sussex.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Keys, who won the title in 2014 and 2023, is returning to the south coast in a bid to complete a hat-trick of titles at Eastbourne.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">An LTA spokesperson said: &#8220;Devonshire Park is owned and operated by Eastbourne Borough Council and we are being kept updated about the incident and security on site.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Ground staff are already working hard to repair the damage to the grass and there will be no impact on the Lexus Eastbourne Open.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The outdoor tournament is considered a key warm-up for the Wimbledon Championships, which start a week later. Players&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":588712,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-588711","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\/588711","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=588711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588711\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/588712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=588711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=588711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=588711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}