{"id":80283,"date":"2026-10-21T11:55:01","date_gmt":"2026-10-21T16:55:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/21\/ex-tennis-pro-megan-rose-appointed-to-lead-2031-mens-rugby-world-cup-in-us\/"},"modified":"2026-10-21T11:55:01","modified_gmt":"2026-10-21T16:55:01","slug":"ex-tennis-pro-megan-rose-appointed-to-lead-2031-mens-rugby-world-cup-in-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/21\/ex-tennis-pro-megan-rose-appointed-to-lead-2031-mens-rugby-world-cup-in-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-tennis pro Megan Rose appointed to lead 2031 men\u2019s Rugby World Cup in US"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Tournament coming to the US for the first time<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Rose says tournament is a huge opportunity<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>World Rugby has appointed Megan Rose, an American tennis pro turned United States Tennis Association (USTA) executive, as managing director of the 2031 men\u2019s Rugby World Cup, a key appointment as the governing body prepares to host what is by some measures the third-biggest global sporting event on American soil for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>Rose said: \u201cRugby World Cup is one of the iconic events in global sport, defined by unforgettable moments on the pitch and the passion of fans around the world. To be entrusted with bringing Men\u2019s Rugby World Cup to the United States for the first time is an extraordinary honour, and I\u2019m thrilled to join this team.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/oct\/21\/ex-tennis-pro-megan-rose-appointed-to-lead-2031-mens-rugby-world-cup-in-us\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tournament coming to the US for the first time Rose says tournament is a huge opportunity World Rugby has appointed Megan Rose, an American tennis pro turned United States Tennis Association (USTA) executive, as managing director of the 2031 men\u2019s Rugby World Cup, a key appointment as the governing body prepares to host what is &#8230; <a title=\"Ex-tennis pro Megan Rose appointed to lead 2031 men\u2019s Rugby World Cup in US\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/21\/ex-tennis-pro-megan-rose-appointed-to-lead-2031-mens-rugby-world-cup-in-us\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Ex-tennis pro Megan Rose appointed to lead 2031 men\u2019s Rugby World Cup in US\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80283\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}