{"id":965689,"date":"2024-07-14T16:04:52","date_gmt":"2024-07-14T16:04:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/dm-simulator-v2\/?p=965689"},"modified":"2024-07-14T16:04:52","modified_gmt":"2024-07-14T16:04:52","slug":"montjane-kamiji-win-wimbledon-wheelchair-doubles-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/montjane-kamiji-win-wimbledon-wheelchair-doubles-title\/","title":{"rendered":"Montjane, Kamiji win Wimbledon wheelchair doubles title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa&#8217;s Kgothatso Montjane and her doubles partner Yui Kamiji of Japan have won the wheelchair doubles title at Wimbledon in London.<\/p>\n<p>The top seeded pair beat second seeds Jiske Griffioen and Diede de Groot of the Netherlands 6-4, 6-4 in the final.<\/p>\n<p>It is their third grand slam title together.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\"> \u2119 <\/p>\n<p>SA wheelchair tennis star Kgothatso Montjane and her partner Yui Kamiji won the Wimbledon women\u2019s doubles title. The pair defeated Diede De Groot and Aniek van Koot 6-4, 6-4. This is Montjane\u2019s third overall doubles Grand Slam title and first Wimbledon title. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ApY1IMTxcq\">pic.twitter.com\/ApY1IMTxcq<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 SABC Sport (@SABC_Sport) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SABC_Sport\/status\/1812494665632932289?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 14, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Minister in the Presidency responsible for Women, Youth and People with Disabilities, Sindisiwe Chikunga congratulates\u00a0 Montjane and Kamiji.<\/p>\n<p>Minister Chikunga says Montjane&#8217;s victory brings hope to women, youth and people with disabilities in South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The White Paper on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities sets out clear directives under each of the 9 strategic pillars to eradicate the persistent systemic discrimination and exclusion experienced by persons with disabilities.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SA&#8217;s Montjane and her doubles partner Yui Kamiji of Japan won the wheelchair doubles title<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":965690,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[225],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-965689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=965689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965689\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/965690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=965689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=965689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=965689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}