{"id":33923,"date":"2025-07-16T15:16:54","date_gmt":"2025-07-16T05:46:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/?p=33923"},"modified":"2025-07-16T15:16:54","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T05:46:54","slug":"vale-lynton-manuel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/news\/2025\/07\/16\/vale-lynton-manuel","title":{"rendered":"Vale Lynton Manuel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tennis SA is deeply saddened by the sudden passing of Lynton Manuel last week, at the age of 52.<\/p>\n<p>Lynton joined Tennis Seniors SA in 2017 and quickly became a valued and well-liked member of the community. A regular competitor in the Men\u2019s B1 Thursday night competition, he later transitioned to the Wednesday night A1 comp in 2019, playing for the Eagles, who would later become the GSMs.<\/p>\n<p>A strong and competitive player, Lynton was known for his love of the game, his sportsmanship, and his camaraderie with teammates and opponents alike. He was always up for a good match, followed by a great red wine shared among friends.<\/p>\n<p>Lynton\u2019s presence both on and off the court will be sorely missed.<\/p>\n<p>We extend our sincere condolences to Lynton\u2019s wife and three children, and to all those who had the pleasure of knowing him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tennis SA is deeply saddened by the sudden passing of Lynton Manuel last week, at the age of 52. Lynton joined Tennis Seniors SA in 2017 and quickly became a valued and well-liked member of the community. A regular competitor in the Men\u2019s B1 Thursday night competition, he later transitioned to the Wednesday night A1 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6443,"featured_media":33924,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6443"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33923\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}