{"id":758898,"date":"2026-09-03T19:36:16","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T19:36:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/758898\/"},"modified":"2026-09-03T19:36:16","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T19:36:16","slug":"work-begins-on-new-tennis-centre-for-the-borders-in-galashiels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/758898\/","title":{"rendered":"Work begins on new tennis centre for the Borders in Galashiels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Galashiels Academy will become the fourth TSIT site, following new facilities at Oriam in Edinburgh, Moray Sports Centre in Elgin and the King George V sports complex in Dumfries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">As well as the tennis centre, the new facility will also feature two canopy-covered padel courts, providing a further boost for the fast-growing sport in the Scottish Borders.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The \u00a364m Galashiels Academy community campus opened to pupils in January.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">SBC leader Euan Jardine said the new centre would allow people of all ages to get active while also providing facilities for &#8220;rising stars&#8221; to train and play locally.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Galashiels Academy will become the fourth TSIT site, following new facilities at Oriam in Edinburgh, Moray Sports Centre&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":758899,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-758898","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\/758898","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=758898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758898\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/758899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=758898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=758898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=758898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}