{"id":56660,"date":"2026-02-12T11:08:45","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T16:08:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/sport\/federers-hall-of-fame-induction-ceremony-sells-out-in-2-minutes\/12\/02\/2026\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T11:08:54","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T16:08:54","slug":"federers-hall-of-fame-induction-ceremony-sells-out-in-2-minutes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/sport\/federers-hall-of-fame-induction-ceremony-sells-out-in-2-minutes\/12\/02\/2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Federer&#8217;s Hall of Fame induction ceremony sells out in 2 minutes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>NEWPORT, R.I. &#8212; The International Tennis Hall of Fame said on Wednesday that Roger Federer&#8217;s induction ceremony sold out in two minutes &#8212; even after the Hall added thousands more tickets for an outdoor watch party.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As a small but historic venue, our capacity is limited,&#8221; the Hall posted on social media.<\/p>\n<p>The Hall said it anticipated the excitement about the first man to win 20 Grand Slam singles titles, who will be inducted in the Newport-based shrine on Aug. 29 along with broadcaster Mary Carillo. In addition to the 900 tickets originally available for the induction ceremony, the Hall will open its 3,600-seat stadium for a watch party.<\/p>\n<p>Even so, the 4,500 tickets were gone within two minutes, Hall spokeswoman Megan Erbes said.<\/p>\n<p>The Tennis Hall, which is housed in the 19th Century Newport Casino, recently underwent a $3 million renovation to prepare for upcoming induction ceremonies to honor Federer and <a data-player-guid=\"cc4fbfff-5162-cb94-e0aa-500d3227a300\" href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=394\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Serena Williams<\/a>, who will be eligible next year unless she makes a comeback.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.co.uk\/tennis\/story\/_\/id\/47900925\/federer-hall-fame-induction-ceremony-sells-2-minutes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEWPORT, R.I. &mdash; The International Tennis Hall of Fame said on Wednesday that Roger Federer&rsquo;s induction ceremony sold out in two minutes<br \/><button class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/sport\/federers-hall-of-fame-induction-ceremony-sells-out-in-2-minutes\/12\/02\/2026\/\">Read More &rsaquo;<\/a><\/button><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":56661,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[213],"tags":[718,840,7675,839,7676,4070,3461],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/a4.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2023%2F0501%2Fr1167191_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56660"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56660"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56662,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56660\/revisions\/56662"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}