{"id":43089,"date":"2017-03-24T09:41:31","date_gmt":"2017-03-24T07:41:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=43089"},"modified":"2017-03-24T09:41:33","modified_gmt":"2017-03-24T07:41:33","slug":"squash-malawi-to-host-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2017\/03\/24\/squash-malawi-to-host-tournament\/","title":{"rendered":"Squash Malawi to host tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Squash Malawi has started registering players for the three-day General Alliance Squash Tournament set for College of Medicine Sports Complex in Blantyre from April 8.<\/p>\n<p>The association\u2019s Vice-President, Gordon Benbow, said they expect 30 players to take part in the tournament.<\/p>\n<p>The players will be drawn from two leagues.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe tournament is crucial to the development of squash in Malawi,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Benbow said they were excited with the strides which junior players have made in squash.<\/p>\n<p>He hailed General Alliance\u2019s support of the tournament.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[Our] relationship with the sponsor is excellent as we have had [this] sponsorship for over five years,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, James Matewere underlined his class by retaining the championship for the men\u2019s main division for a third successive time.<\/p>\n<p>During the same tournament, Benbow won the Plate Division championship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Squash Malawi has started registering players for the three-day General Alliance Squash Tournament set for College of Medicine Sports Complex in Blantyre from April 8. The association\u2019s Vice-President, Gordon Benbow, said they expect 30 players to take part in the tournament. The players will be drawn from two leagues. \u201cThe tournament is crucial to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":43093,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43089","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\/43089","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=43089"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43089\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43094,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43089\/revisions\/43094"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}