{"id":25784,"date":"2024-07-25T15:05:23","date_gmt":"2024-07-25T05:05:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nsw\/?p=25784"},"modified":"2024-07-25T15:05:23","modified_gmt":"2024-07-25T05:05:23","slug":"meet-alexei-popyrin-australias-newest-olympian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nsw\/news\/2024\/07\/25\/meet-alexei-popyrin-australias-newest-olympian","title":{"rendered":"Meet Alexei Popyrin, Australia’s newest Olympian"},"content":{"rendered":"

Alexei Popyrin will make his Olympic debut this week at the 2024 Paris Olympic Games.<\/p>\n

Currently ranked World No. 43, Alexei will don the green and gold to represent Team Australia in both the Singles and Doubles event.<\/p>\n

Joining forces with World No. 6 and fellow NSW player, Alex De Minaur, the Sydney locals have a strong shot at securing an Olympic medal in the Doubles event.<\/p>\n

Get to know Alexei Popyrin!<\/p>\n

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Tennis NSW and the tennis community will be cheering Alexei and Team Australia on, and wish them all the best at the 2024 Paris Olympics. The entire country will be watching and supporting.<\/p>\n

The Olympic Tennis event will start at 12.00pm on Saturday 27 July across 12 match courts including Roland Garros\u2019 three prized stadium courts \u2013 Philippe Chatrier, Suzanne Lenglen and Simonne Matheiu.<\/p>\n

Men\u2019s and women\u2019s singles and men\u2019s and women\u2019s doubles will commence on the first day of play. The mixed doubles will commence on Monday 29 July.<\/p>\n

CLICK THE BELOW IMAGE TO DOWNLOAD THE SOCIAL TILE OF ALEXEI AND POST ON YOUR SOCIALS TO SHOW YOUR SUPPORT!<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Don\u2019t forget to tag him @alexeipopyrin<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Alexei Popyrin will make his Olympic debut this week at the 2024 Paris Olympic Games. Currently ranked World No. 43, Alexei will don the green and gold to represent Team Australia in both the Singles and Doubles event. Joining forces with World No. 6 and fellow NSW player, Alex De Minaur, the Sydney locals have […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6323,"featured_media":25785,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nsw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nsw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nsw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nsw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6323"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nsw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nsw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25784\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nsw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nsw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nsw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nsw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}