{"id":44042,"date":"2017-04-08T08:05:32","date_gmt":"2017-04-08T06:05:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=44042"},"modified":"2017-04-08T08:05:34","modified_gmt":"2017-04-08T06:05:34","slug":"james-matewere-yearns-for-squash-title-defence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2017\/04\/08\/james-matewere-yearns-for-squash-title-defence\/","title":{"rendered":"James Matewere yearns for squash title defence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Top seed James Matewere has vowed to retain the General Alliance Squash tournament for the third successive time.<\/p>\n<p>The three-day tournament got underway yesterday at Blantyre Sports Club.<\/p>\n<p>Matewere warned fellow senior players, including top seed Aubrey Taulo and his elder brother, Julius, to expect a tough ride.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am not underrating my colleagues, but I am simply too good for them. I have to win this trophy for the third successive time,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Julius Taulo said he was determined to make up for his 2016 downfall when he was humbled in three straight sets.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet bygones be bygones. I have something special for him [Matewere]. I would love to meet him in the final so that he should feel what I felt when I lost,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Squash Malawi Publicity Secretary, Chiku Nkutumula, said the tournament has come at the right time as the association is preparing for international events.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will use the tournament to select the best players for the forthcoming international tournaments,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Over 40 players registered to compete in the tournament.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Top seed James Matewere has vowed to retain the General Alliance Squash tournament for the third successive time. The three-day tournament got underway yesterday at Blantyre Sports Club. Matewere warned fellow senior players, including top seed Aubrey Taulo and his elder brother, Julius, to expect a tough ride. \u201cI am not underrating my colleagues, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":44044,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44042","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\/44042","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=44042"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44046,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44042\/revisions\/44046"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}