{"id":122994,"date":"2016-05-30T10:24:00","date_gmt":"2016-05-30T08:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/122994\/young-tennis-players-receive-helping-hand\/"},"modified":"2016-05-31T09:20:18","modified_gmt":"2016-05-31T07:20:18","slug":"young-tennis-players-receive-helping-hand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/sports-news\/2016\/05\/30\/young-tennis-players-receive-helping-hand\/","title":{"rendered":"Young tennis players receive helping hand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three Germiston-based tennis academies have joined together to focus on skill development for young players.<\/p>\n<p>To do this the academies, namely Ekurhuleni Tennis School of Excellence, Ace Tennis Academy and Coached by Nel Tennis Academy, have launched a weekly tournament programme, which was started on May 22, and will see coaches playing alongside and against junior players.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>The friendly tournaments are held at the Germiston Stadium each Sunday, and all local tennis players are welcome to participate, no matter their skill level.<\/p>\n<p>Coach Loyiso Matsha, the founder of the weekly tournament said: \u201cI got the idea from my time in the US.\u201d<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>For more information, call the coaches involved in the tournament: Loyiso Matsha (Ekurhuleni Tennis School of Excellence) on 071 381 6226; Sizo Sonqishe (Ekurhuleni Tennis School of Excellence) on 073 484 5270; Etienne de Wet (Ace Tennis Academy) on 071 564 7722 or Ronel Beukes of the Coached by Nel Tennis Academy on 061 430 5361.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Other articles you may be interested in:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/122340\/elsburg-continue-kestrel-league-campaign\/\" target=\"_blank\">Elsburg continue Kestrel League campaign<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/122250\/south-africas-top-yearlings-go-under-the-hammer\/\" target=\"_blank\">South Africa\u2019s top yearlings go under the hammer<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/122312\/callies-runners-head-to-the-comrades\/\" target=\"_blank\">Callies runners head to the Comrades<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/122034\/acting-station-commander-wishes-runners-well\/\" target=\"_blank\">Acting station commander wishes runners well<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/120796\/local-club-members-represent-gauteng\/\" target=\"_blank\">Local club members represent Gauteng<\/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='0d14034875fa358987d00d958ccb56d0'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three local tennis academies join together to focus on the development of young talent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":122995,"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":[8297,1012,1003,1106,979,969,2730,1119,1724,2386],"class_list":["post-122994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-sports","category-sports-news","tag-community-2","tag-east-rand","tag-ekurhuleni","tag-gcn","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-city-news","tag-leigh-hodgson","tag-sport-2","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"Sport","SubCategory":"Local sport"},"tag_labels":["community","East Rand","Ekurhuleni","GCN","germiston","germiston city news","Leigh Hodgson","sport","sports","tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122994","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=122994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122994\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}