{"id":121316,"date":"2026-09-15T08:32:55","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T06:32:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/specialolympics.ch\/blog\/2026\/09\/15\/successful-tennis-tournament-in-sion\/"},"modified":"2026-09-15T08:34:56","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T06:34:56","slug":"successful-tennis-tournament-in-sion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/specialolympics.ch\/en\/blog\/2026\/09\/15\/successful-tennis-tournament-in-sion\/","title":{"rendered":"Successful Tennis Tournament in Sion"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>On September 12, 2026, 26 athletes gathered in Sion for a successful Tennis tournament in excellent weather. Supported by 12 coaches and 40 volunteers, they showed full commitment on the court, ensuring exciting and fair matches. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Under the leadership of Sport Official Francesca, the tournament ran smoothly. After the matches, athletes, coaches, and volunteers enjoyed lunch together at the beautiful Domaine des \u00celes. <\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The event concluded with a festive medal ceremony. The Mayor of Sion, the City&#8217;s Minister of Sports, and Jonathan Grept, Sport Coordinator at Special Olympics Switzerland, had the honor of personally presenting medals to the athletes. <\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An all-around successful day of Tennis filled with great sportsmanship, a good atmosphere, and many smiling faces.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Further details (in French), pictures, and rankings can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/specialolympics.ch\/en\/veranstaltungen\/21227\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On September 12, 2026, 26 athletes gathered in Sion for a successful Tennis tournament in excellent weather&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":121317,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[179],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-competition-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/specialolympics.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/specialolympics.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/specialolympics.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/specialolympics.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/specialolympics.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121316"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/specialolympics.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":121318,"href":"https:\/\/specialolympics.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121316\/revisions\/121318"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/specialolympics.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/121317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/specialolympics.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/specialolympics.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/specialolympics.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}