{"id":338911,"date":"2026-09-05T17:18:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-05T17:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/338911\/"},"modified":"2026-09-05T17:18:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T17:18:09","slug":"nonprofit-uses-tennis-to-improve-kids-lives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/338911\/","title":{"rendered":"Nonprofit uses tennis to improve kids&#8217; lives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New York Junior Tennis and Learning was founded by Arthur Ashe in 1971.<\/p>\n<p>The nonprofit uses tennis to improve children&#8217;s lives off the court. Udai Tambar, the president and CEO of NYJTL, and 15-year-old Nikolay Klioutchnikov, a member of the NYJTL&#8217;s scholar athlete program, join &#8220;Weekends on 1&#8221; to discuss the program.<\/p>\n<p>Tap the video player above to watch the interview.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York Junior Tennis and Learning was founded by Arthur Ashe in 1971. The nonprofit uses tennis to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":338912,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[25,9,24,55,54,12,56,5252,27,200,4181],"class_list":["post-338911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-app-top-stories","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-news","tag-ny","tag-rocco-vertuccio","tag-top-stories","tag-vod","tag-weekend-features"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=338911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338911\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/338912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}