{"id":2297,"date":"2022-07-04T23:39:35","date_gmt":"2022-07-04T23:39:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/2022\/07\/04\/wimbledon-how-does-tennis-work-when-youre-blind\/"},"modified":"2022-07-04T23:39:35","modified_gmt":"2022-07-04T23:39:35","slug":"wimbledon-how-does-tennis-work-when-youre-blind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/?p=2297","title":{"rendered":"Wimbledon: How does tennis work when you&#8217;re blind?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">As Wimbledon comes to a close this week, we&#8217;re taking a look at blind tennis. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">It&#8217;s a sport played with a larger, softer ball that makes a rattle noise which allows players to locate the ball. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">The Lawn Tennis Association organises a range of regional and national competitions, and many players hope it will one day be a Paralympic sport.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Emma and Martin from the Access All disability podcast meet avid player Reece Finnegan to learn how it works.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Hear more on BBC Sounds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\"><i class=\"ssrcss-xbdn93-ItalicText e5tfeyi2\">Filmed and edited by Laura Gaynor<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/disability-62041246?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=KARANGA\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] As Wimbledon comes to a close this week, we&#8217;re taking a look at blind tennis. It&#8217;s a sport played with a larger, softer ball that makes a rattle noise &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2298,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2297"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2297\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}