{"id":25958,"date":"2025-02-01T19:31:25","date_gmt":"2025-02-01T19:31:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/?p=25958"},"modified":"2025-02-01T19:31:26","modified_gmt":"2025-02-01T19:31:26","slug":"guyana-table-tennis-association-hosts-christmas-tournament-to-close-2024-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/guyana-table-tennis-association-hosts-christmas-tournament-to-close-2024-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Guyana Table Tennis Association Hosts Christmas Tournament to Close 2024 Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n\n<p><em>By Tyriq Walters<\/em><br><em>December 21, 2024<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Guyana Table Tennis Association (GTTA) is closing its 2024 season with the highly anticipated Christmas Table Tennis Tournament, scheduled for December 21-22 at the National Gymnasium. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The tournament will feature over 40 players competing in three categories: Novice Open, C Class Open for Under-13 and Under-15 players, and B Class Open for National Juniors and Open Singles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>National and long-time Table Tennis Coach Linden Johnson shared that the tournament serves a dual purpose: nurturing young talent and identifying players for future international competitions. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The GTTA has expressed its commitment to revitalizing its tournament calendar, with plans to host regular events starting in 2025. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The pandemic had previously disrupted the competition schedule, but efforts are underway to resume monthly tournaments, including school-level engagements to increase participation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition to the competition, trophies and medals will be awarded to younger players in the C Class category. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The GTTA is also actively seeking sponsorships to provide monetary prizes for senior competitors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Tyriq WaltersDecember 21, 2024 The Guyana Table Tennis Association (GTTA) is closing its 2024 season with the highly anticipated Christmas Table Tennis Tournament, scheduled for December 21-22 at the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":24989,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[350,352],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-sports"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25958"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25959,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25958\/revisions\/25959"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}