{"id":61207,"date":"2018-02-23T06:19:31","date_gmt":"2018-02-23T04:19:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=61207"},"modified":"2018-02-23T06:19:31","modified_gmt":"2018-02-23T04:19:31","slug":"squash-tourney-on-the-cards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2018\/02\/23\/squash-tourney-on-the-cards\/","title":{"rendered":"Squash tourney on the cards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Squash Malawi has asked players to start registering for General Alliance Squash Tournament, which is scheduled for Blantyre next month.<\/p>\n<p>The association\u2019s Vice President, Gordon Benbow, on Sunday said the tournament would be played in three divisions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSquash Malawi is keen on having all ages enter [the competition]. We will make sure that all levels are catered for. There will be cash prizes in all divisions and special cash prizes [such as match of the tournament] as dictated by Chief Referee.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe format of the tournament will be PAR (point a rally) to 11. Matches will be first-round knock-out and plate, unless otherwise indicated once the numbers are known. It is possible that a Swiss Pair Format (playing every round) will be used,\u201d Benbow said.<\/p>\n<p>During last year\u2019s tournament, James Matewere retained the title for the third successive time after beating Aubrey Taulo 3-2.<\/p>\n<p>In a third-place match, Julius Taulo defeated Chiku Nkutumula 3-1.<\/p>\n<p>In B-section, Thiba James beat Enock Juma 3-2 to win whereas in the ladies\u2019 section Yiwonda Banda beat Christina Yiannakis 3-1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Squash Malawi has asked players to start registering for General Alliance Squash Tournament, which is scheduled for Blantyre next month. The association\u2019s Vice President, Gordon Benbow, on Sunday said the tournament would be played in three divisions. \u201cSquash Malawi is keen on having all ages enter [the competition]. We will make sure that all levels [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":61211,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61207","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\/61207","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=61207"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61212,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61207\/revisions\/61212"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}