{"id":679876,"date":"2026-07-08T06:30:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T06:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/679876\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T06:30:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T06:30:15","slug":"suffolk-tennis-club-fears-being-replaced-with-padel-courts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/679876\/","title":{"rendered":"Suffolk tennis club fears being replaced with padel courts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Daniel said the club, one of just two in the town, had worked since the Covid-19 pandemic to increase its membership, which now sits at about 170 people.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He claimed, however, that the facility was looking to re-purpose the courts the club currently uses.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We&#8217;ve said we would double our rent, and we could afford that because we are now bringing in more money,&#8221; PE teacher Daniel added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;But we just cannot afford to be talking about figures where it&#8217;s going up by 500%. It&#8217;s just impossible.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">For those who want to play padel in the area, there are courts at Risbygate Sports Club, where there is also tennis, and the Padel Shed in Whepstead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The David Lloyd gym similarly has padel courts for its members.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Daniel said the club, one of just two in the town, had worked since the Covid-19 pandemic to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":679877,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-679876","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\/679876","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=679876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679876\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/679877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=679876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=679876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=679876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}