{"id":358807,"date":"2025-12-19T22:01:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T22:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/358807\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T22:01:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T22:01:11","slug":"baton-rouge-tennis-veteran-named-usta-southern-captain-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/358807\/","title":{"rendered":"Baton Rouge tennis veteran named USTA Southern Captain of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BATON ROUGE \u2014 Baton Rouge&#8217;s Wilbert &#8220;Doc&#8221; Whitfield has been named the inaugural Southern Captain of the Year for the United States Tennis Association.<\/p>\n<p>Whitfield has served as a USTA League captain for 14 years, leading 87 teams, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usta.com\/en\/home\/stay-current\/southern\/baton-rouge-s-whitfield-named-2025-usta-southern-captain-of-the-.html#tab=tournaments\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">news release<\/a> from USTA says.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He has also played on USTA teams for 37 years.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Whitfield\u2019s nomination will be submitted for the USTA Captain of the Year award that will be presented in January.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BATON ROUGE \u2014 Baton Rouge&#8217;s Wilbert &#8220;Doc&#8221; Whitfield has been named the inaugural Southern Captain of the Year&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":358808,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[175082,177523,177520,177522,48923,6098,112856,99,157590,428,74370,177521,177519,177518],"class_list":["post-358807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-batonrouge","tag-cancerfree","tag-captainoftheyear","tag-communitytennis","tag-educator","tag-louisiana","tag-mentorship","tag-sports","tag-sportsmanship","tag-tennis","tag-usta","tag-ustaleague","tag-ustasouthern","tag-wilbertdocwhitfield"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=358807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358807\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/358808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}