{"id":642774,"date":"2026-06-17T02:59:16","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T02:59:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/642774\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T02:59:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T02:59:16","slug":"york-hotel-plans-to-replace-tennis-courts-with-padel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/642774\/","title":{"rendered":"York hotel plans to replace tennis courts with padel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A hotel in York has lodged plans to replace its existing tennis courts with facilities for padel &#8211; amid a growth in popularity of the sport.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Delta Hotel, run by international hotelier Marriott, said the courts would be open to both guests and the local community.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The plans would see three courts built within the grounds of the hotel, with LED floodlights that could be dimmed at night and a retractable roof.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Padel, which started in the late 1960s in Mexico, is played on small tennis-like courts with a racket and ball and has surged in popularity in the UK recently.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A hotel in York has lodged plans to replace its existing tennis courts with facilities for padel &#8211;&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":642775,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-642774","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\/642774","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=642774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642774\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/642775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=642774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=642774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=642774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}