{"id":55038,"date":"2014-03-12T10:50:55","date_gmt":"2014-03-12T08:50:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/?p=55038"},"modified":"2014-03-12T10:50:55","modified_gmt":"2014-03-12T08:50:55","slug":"local-tennis-club-goes-strength-strength","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/sports-news\/2014\/03\/12\/local-tennis-club-goes-strength-strength\/","title":{"rendered":"Local tennis club goes from strength to strength"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Ekurhuleni Tennis School of Excellence is calling on everyone interested in playing tennis.<\/p>\n<p>Coaching is held every Saturday, at the Germiston Stadium.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>The aim of the tennis school is to produce provincial championships, who will then progress to national and international levels.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The training\u00a0 is a long-term development, as it requires hard work, perseverance, discipline and respect for authority,&#8221; said the head coach of the club, Loyiso Matsha.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>The club members play internal monthly tournaments at the Germiston Stadium and receive small incentives (prizes).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The progress made this year by the players is enourmous; there is great improvement,&#8221; said another coach, Sizo Sonqishe.<\/p>\n<p>The recent singles tournament was won by Tadiwanashe Chipfakacha, with Martinique Davids second and Dian Dreyer third.<\/p>\n<p>Fourth was Genna Davids; fifth Jaydan Rooskrantz, and sixth Sethembile Myeni.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If you want to bring your children to join the club and play the game, they are welcome,&#8221; said Matsha.<\/p>\n<p>For more information contact Matsha on 071 381 6226.<\/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='798ff0ef4fe5095dac91ec6af1246063'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tennis club welcomes new players.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":552,"featured_media":55048,"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":[2385,979,1793,2749,1119,1724,2386],"class_list":["post-55038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-sports","category-sports-news","tag-ekurhuleni-tennis-school-of-excellence","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-stadium","tag-puleng-sekabate","tag-sport-2","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"Sport","SubCategory":"Local sport"},"tag_labels":["Ekurhuleni Tennis School of Excellence","germiston","Germiston Stadium","Puleng Sekabate","sport","sports","tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55038","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\/552"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55038\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}