{"id":31150,"date":"2022-06-06T16:15:42","date_gmt":"2022-06-06T14:15:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/spu-to-host-sasa-conference-in-july-copy\/"},"modified":"2022-06-07T09:56:51","modified_gmt":"2022-06-07T07:56:51","slug":"mens-tennis-team-scores-place-at-ussa-championships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/mens-tennis-team-scores-place-at-ussa-championships\/","title":{"rendered":"Tennis team scores place at USSA Championships"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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The University\u2019s men\u2019s table tennis team did not disappoint, and took third place at the USSA<\/a><\/span> Table Tennis Championship after competing against four South African universities \u2013 Free State<\/a><\/span>, KwaZulu-Natal<\/span><\/a>, Western Cape<\/span><\/a>, and Limpopo<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>

The 2021 championship was postponed to 2022 due to the Omicron virus and was held from 15 to 21 March at Sol Plaatje University (SPU)<\/a><\/span>. Busy academic and registration calendars also resulted in fewer universities participating. However, players and spectators were treated to a tournament of a high standard with standout performances from the universities of KwaZulu-Natal and Free State, who took first and second places, respectively.<\/p>

It was the second USSA table tennis tournament hosted by the University.<\/p>

You can find all the SPU results below:<\/p>

MEN\u2019S TEAMS<\/strong>
Gold –\u00a0 University of KwaZulu-Natal
Silver – University of the Free State
Bronze – SPU<\/p>

MEN\u2019S DOUBLES<\/strong>
4th place – Kamogelo Moholeng and Kagisho Sejamoholo
5th place –\u00a0 Tsedisho Mokgele and Tholang Sebigi
6th place –\u00a0 Cyprain Mosinki and Owen Beukes<\/p>

MEN\u2019S SINGLES<\/strong>
6th place – Kamogelo Moholeng
8th place – Kagisho Sejamoholo
10th place – Cyprain Mosinki
11th place – Owen Beukes<\/p>

MIX DOUBLES<\/strong>
5th place – Kamogelo Moholeng and Tsholofelo Mokhutsane
6th place – Itumeleng Malinga and Tidimalo Senye<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The University\u2019s men\u2019s table tennis team did not disappoint, and took third place at the USSA Table Tennis Championship after competing against four South African universities \u2013 Free State, KwaZulu-Natal, Western Cape, and Limpopo. The 2021 championship was postponed to Read More …<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31185,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,67,57],"tags":[],"post_folder":[],"coauthors":[185],"class_list":["post-31150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-sport","category-spu-student-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31150"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31217,"href":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31150\/revisions\/31217"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31150"},{"taxonomy":"post_folder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_folder?post=31150"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=31150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}