{"id":339401,"date":"2025-12-12T01:37:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T01:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/339401\/"},"modified":"2025-12-12T01:37:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T01:37:08","slug":"favourites-advance-in-top-eight-masters-tennis-meet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/339401\/","title":{"rendered":"Favourites advance in Top Eight Masters Tennis meet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Top tennis players favoured to clinch the ultimate prize at the ongoing Top Eight Masters Tennis Tournament taking place at the iconic Ikoyi Club 1938 have not disappointed so far.\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It has been a cruise ride so to say for these top players as they have secured two wins in the first two games played in their respective round robin groups.\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In the men\u2019s category, Kalada Kienka, the number two seed, defeated Akeem Mustafa 6\/3, 6\/3 on Tuesday night, Destiny Da Silva, the defending Champion and number 3 seed defeated Godwin Kienka 6\/0, 6\/4 to record his second win just as the ladies\u2019 number one seed, Mirella Eccli, recorded a comfortable 6\/0,6\/0 score against Effiong Ejehi the number 2 seed Lolia Kienka defeated Nene Lawani 6\/0, 6\/1.\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Men\u2019s top seed, Chiwete Njokanma was ruthless against Chinedu Idike as he cruised to victory with a 6\/3, 6\/3 margin.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Chairman of the Ikoyi Club Tennis section, Diran Famakinwa, said he was not surprised by the exploits of the top stars at the ongoing tournament.\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThose who came up with the top eight ranking have done a good job and so there could be upsets along the line but we have picked the best of the best for this tear ending tournament,\u201d Famakinwa said.\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Top Eight Tennis Masters powered by Megabound continues on Thursday at the Tennis Courts of the Ikoyi Club 1938.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The competition ends on Saturday December 13.\n                                            <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Top tennis players favoured to clinch the ultimate prize at the ongoing Top Eight Masters Tennis Tournament taking&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":339402,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-339401","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\/339401","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=339401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339401\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/339402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}