SOME OF the island\u2019s top tennis players are scheduled to suit up for this weekend\u2019s start of the Real Equity Open Tennis Championships, which is set to serve off on Saturday at the Liguanea Club in New Kingston. <\/p>\n
Among those down to compete in the December 6-13 tournament are Blaise Bicknell, Rowland \u2018Randy\u2019 Phillips, and Nicholas Gore.<\/p>\n
Bicknell, who is currently ranked 490 in the world, has been the country\u2019s top-ranked tennis player for the past seven years.<\/p>\n
Tournament director Llockett McGregor said he is expecting a very exciting championship because all the competitors are eager to put on a strong showing in front of their friends and family.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis tournament has normally been one of the biggest. It\u2019s our end-of-year tournament and a lot of our top players like Blaise Bicknell, Randy Phillips and Nicholas Gore will be in action,\u201d McGregor said.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is going to be very competitive because I know that all the players are looking forward to this tournament because it is a part of the Llockett McGregor series, so it has always been a very competitive,\u201d McGregor said.<\/p>\n
The participants will compete in men\u2019s Open singles, men\u2019s Class Two and Class Three open singles, as well as an amateur female singles championship.<\/p>\n
McGregor noted that all proceeds from the tournament this year will go towards the victims of Category-5 Hurricane Melissa.<\/p>\n
\u201cI want the fans to come out and support this tournament because there is going to be a lot of exciting competition this year, and it is open to the public for everyone to come out and have a good time,\u201d he noted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SOME OF the island\u2019s top tennis players are scheduled to suit up for this weekend\u2019s start of the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":326534,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-326533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326533","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=326533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326533\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/326534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}