{"id":26487,"date":"2025-02-09T02:51:39","date_gmt":"2025-02-09T02:51:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/?p=26487"},"modified":"2025-02-09T02:51:40","modified_gmt":"2025-02-09T02:51:40","slug":"squash-doubles-courts-at-national-racquet-centre-set-to-open-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/squash-doubles-courts-at-national-racquet-centre-set-to-open-soon\/","title":{"rendered":"Squash Doubles Courts at National Racquet Centre Set to Open Soon"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n\n<p><em>By Tyriq Walters | January 21, 2025<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The National Racquet Centre on Woolford Avenue is preparing for the official opening of its new Squash Doubles courts. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The facility, which has undergone significant upgrades, now features retractable bucket seating designed to accommodate up to 300 spectators.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Minister of Sport Charles Ramson Jr. confirmed via a Facebook post that the state-of-the-art facility will open its doors in two weeks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Previously, during local and regional championships in 2024, including the Senior Area Squash Association Championships (CASA), temporary seating was used.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The local squash community has long advocated for a dedicated doubles court, believing it will greatly enhance the sport&#8217;s development in Guyana and the region. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With the completion of this project, Guyana joins the British Virgin Islands as one of the Caribbean countries with internationally standard doubles courts. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These courts can also be adapted to host two doubles matches simultaneously, utilizing three singles courts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The construction of the facility, which began one year ago, was funded with an allocation of 65 million dollars from the government through the Ministry of Culture, Youth, and Sport. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This investment is expected to boost the sport of squash, providing a venue for doubles tournaments at both the junior and senior levels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As the final touches are made, the squash community eagerly anticipates the official opening of this new facility, which promises to be a game-changer for the sport in the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Tyriq Walters | January 21, 2025 The National Racquet Centre on Woolford Avenue is preparing for the official opening of its new Squash Doubles courts. The facility, which has&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":22391,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[350,352],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26487","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\/26487","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=26487"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26488,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26487\/revisions\/26488"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}