{"id":21793,"date":"2016-04-01T11:46:53","date_gmt":"2016-04-01T09:46:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=21793"},"modified":"2016-04-01T11:46:53","modified_gmt":"2016-04-01T09:46:53","slug":"junior-tourney-kick-starts-tennis-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2016\/04\/01\/junior-tourney-kick-starts-tennis-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Junior tourney kick-starts tennis season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 2016 domestic tennis season starts next weekend with a juniors\u2019 tournament at National Tennis Centre in Blantyre, Lawn Tennis Association of Malawi (LTAM) has disclosed.<\/p>\n<p>LTAM President, Titani Muwalo, said the tournament scheduled for the Country Club Limbe-based centre would involve Under-14 and 16 players from Blantyre, Lilongwe, Mzuzu and Zomba zones.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have already sourced sponsorship for this tournament, and we should be able to disclose them before the end of next week,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Muwalo said the tournament was ideal for the identification of players earmarked for special training at the centre.<\/p>\n<p>He also disclosed that a first major seniors\u2019 tournament would be held in May, and the identity of the sponsor would be revealed at the end of this month.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have to do things orderly. We will, as long as we are forging ahead, take a step at a time,\u201d Muwalo said.<\/p>\n<p>He added that his executive was also planning for an international tournament for seniors and juniors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2016 domestic tennis season starts next weekend with a juniors\u2019 tournament at National Tennis Centre in Blantyre, Lawn Tennis Association of Malawi (LTAM) has disclosed. LTAM President, Titani Muwalo, said the tournament scheduled for the Country Club Limbe-based centre would involve Under-14 and 16 players from Blantyre, Lilongwe, Mzuzu and Zomba zones. \u201cWe have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":18880,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21793"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21796,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21793\/revisions\/21796"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}