{"id":102696,"date":"2019-10-01T17:00:27","date_gmt":"2019-10-01T15:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/?p=102696"},"modified":"2019-10-01T15:27:02","modified_gmt":"2019-10-01T13:27:02","slug":"psa-open-pool-championships-roll-pienaardam-leisure-resort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/sports-news\/local-sports\/2019\/10\/01\/psa-open-pool-championships-roll-pienaardam-leisure-resort\/","title":{"rendered":"PSA Open Pool Championships on the roll at Pienaardam Leisure Resort"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The town of Middelburg served as a host to hundreds of young pool contestants last week, during which the PSA National Juniors Tournament took place.<\/p>\n<p>The juniors eliminated each other from the week long tournament, which finally saw Western Province take the prize in both the u\/18 and u\/23 categories.<\/p>\n<p>The Leisure Resort had barely seen their young guests off before welcoming their next ones as the PSA Open Tournament commenced.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Also read: <a href=\"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/102691\/world-champion-visits-middelburg-psa-tournament\/\" target=\"_blank\">World Champion visits Middelburg at PSA Tournament<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As the best of the best measure cues, Middelburg is honoured with visits from the cream of the crop, like recently crowned World Champion, Amy-Claire King, who is representing the Northern Gauteng team.<\/p>\n<p>But the Mpumalanga region is being well represented with two teams of 24 players in total, all from Witbank, Lydenburg, Carolina and our very own Middelburg.<\/p>\n<p>As the preliminaries continue, the Mpumalanga Federation showed their strength in a match against the North West and are moving forward in the tournament.<\/p>\n<p>The finals will be taking place on Saturday afternoon, where the next victors will be crowned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The rolling, green carpet of felt lathering one of the halls at Pienardam Leisure Resort isn&#8217;t going anywhere for the next week as the PSA National Pool Tournament continues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8164,"featured_media":102698,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Sjani Campher","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,2886],"tags":[21118,10010,12898,12964,21121,1779,21008,21119,21120,10333],"class_list":["post-102696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-sports","category-sports-news","tag-eightball-pool","tag-local-news","tag-middelburg-news","tag-middelburg-sport","tag-mp-pool-federation","tag-pool","tag-pool-championships","tag-pool-south-africa-tournament-2019","tag-psa-open-tournament-2019","tag-trusted-news"],"category_labels":{"Category":"Sport","SubCategory":"Local sport"},"tag_labels":["eightball pool","local news","middelburg news","Middelburg sport","MP Pool federation","pool","pool championships","pool south africa tournament 2019","PSA open tournament 2019","trusted news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8164"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102696\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}