{"id":113859,"date":"2025-09-02T09:27:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T09:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/113859\/"},"modified":"2025-09-02T09:27:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T09:27:10","slug":"coleman-wong-to-play-in-hong-kongs-ultimate-tennis-showdown-reveals-nickname","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/113859\/","title":{"rendered":"Coleman Wong to play in Hong Kong\u2019s Ultimate Tennis Showdown, reveals nickname"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Hong Kong\u2019s Coleman Wong Chak-lam has joined the line-up for next month\u2019s Ultimate Tennis Showdown in his hometown \u2013 and revealed his nickname for the innovative event.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The city\u2019s tennis fans received a boost on Tuesday when another addition was made to join the likes of Nick \u201cKing\u201d Kyrgios and Alex \u201cThe Demon\u201d de Minaur, with Wong \u2013 fresh from his historic run at the US Open \u2013 revealed as the chosen one.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">A faster-paced version of regular tennis, UTS features interactive elements and informal names for players. Wong\u2019s nickname? \u201cThe Chosen Wong\u201d.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cThe few names we came up with were really just some random thoughts,\u201d Wong said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cThere are not many tennis players in Hong Kong, and I happen to be one of them, so I thought about that. I think it\u2019s quite special.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hong Kong\u2019s Coleman Wong Chak-lam has joined the line-up for next month\u2019s Ultimate Tennis Showdown in his hometown&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":113860,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,64156,50620,50618,82,593,64157,43411],"class_list":["post-113859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-coleman-wong-chak-lam","tag-kai-tak-arena","tag-kai-tak-sports-park","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-ultimate-tennis-showdown","tag-uts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113859\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}