{"id":120661,"date":"2016-05-06T09:35:00","date_gmt":"2016-05-06T07:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/120661\/youngsters-serve-up-great-wins\/"},"modified":"2016-05-07T07:46:06","modified_gmt":"2016-05-07T05:46:06","slug":"youngsters-serve-up-great-wins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/sports-news\/2016\/05\/06\/youngsters-serve-up-great-wins\/","title":{"rendered":"Youngsters serve up great wins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two juniors from the Ekurhuleni Tennis School Of Excellence did extremely well at the annual Mahikeng Junior Tennis Tournament, recently.<\/p>\n<p>The tournament was held in Kempton Park.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>Jaydan Rooskrantz won the boys\u2019 u-10 singles title, beating Essa Karani, of Johannesburg, 6-3, while Lethabo Bapela won the boys u-14 singles title.<\/p>\n<p>He beat Thato Chiloane, of Pretoria, 4-6, 6-4 and 6-3 in a gruelling final.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>The tournament had a purse of R25 000 which was divided amongst the winners and runners-up.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTennis enthusiasts call it the African Grand Slam,\u201d said Loyiso Matsha, coach at the Ekurhuleni Tennis School Of Excellence.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am confident that, in a few years\u2019 time, some of my juniors will represent South Africa, and everyone is welcome to attend my academy of all nations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For more information about the school, call Matsha on 071 381 6226.<\/p>\n<p>There is coaching available for pupils from six to 60 years old.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Other articles you may be interested in:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/117235\/coach-says-youngster-can-get-to-the-top\/\" target=\"_blank\">Coach says youngster can get to the top<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/110965\/local-tennis-club-is-ready-for-the-year\/\" target=\"_blank\">Local tennis club is ready for the year<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"stream-item stream-item-below-post-content\">\n<div class='tenancy_slot tenancy_slot_1 jannah_ad' style='display: none;' data-query-id='68de4c1710fa56546a2ef50482b1066e'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two young pupils from the Ekurhuleni Tennis School Of Excellence are starting to make a name for themselves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":120662,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,3],"tags":[1123,2385,979,969,1295,2734,1119,2386],"class_list":["post-120661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-sports","category-sports-news","tag-delville","tag-ekurhuleni-tennis-school-of-excellence","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-city-news","tag-local-sport-2","tag-melissa-hart","tag-sport-2","tag-tennis"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"Sport","SubCategory":"Local sport"},"tag_labels":["Delville","Ekurhuleni Tennis School of Excellence","germiston","germiston city news","local sport","melissa hart","sport","tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1848"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120661\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/120662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}