{"id":711,"date":"2022-06-17T13:09:38","date_gmt":"2022-06-17T13:09:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/?p=711"},"modified":"2022-06-17T13:09:40","modified_gmt":"2022-06-17T13:09:40","slug":"711","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/?p=711","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Ex-Zim Tennis Player Dies<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>30 January 2022<br>Jeremiah Harrison<br>Sports Writer<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Former Zimbabwe Davis Cup Tennis player Gwinyai Chingoka has died.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He was 38.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He died on Thursday morning at West End hospital. Chingoka succumbed to the injuries sustained after he was hit by a car last week when he was coming from Harare Sports Club.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chingoka was introduced to tennis by his late father who was the president of Tennis Zimbabwe as well as the former president of the Zimbabwe Olympic Committee Paul Chingoka.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He started playing tennis at a tender age and became one of the best players in the junior rankings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/chat.whatsapp.com\/HLTr91OAOOZ3jHdEI7418Z\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>He was granted a tennis scholarship to study in Texas, United States of America. He studied Economics at Southern Methodist University in Texas from 2001 to 2005.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2003 he was named in the Zimbabwe Davis Cup team, he made one appearance as he played one singles and one doubles tie and he lost both.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He also participated in the Dairiboard Zimbabwe Open Championship and he reached the semi-final after he beat Peter Nyamande in the quarter finals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the time of his death he was working for Telecel Zimbabwe and he was a part time tennis coach at Harare Sports Club during weekends.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>May his soul rest in peace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Zim GBC News<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Classified Ads<br>For:<br>Bookeping services, Accounting services<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>ZIMRA TAX clearance<br>-ZIMRA Audits<br>Payroll services,<br>Human resources,<br>Labour issues<br>Contact GBC Accounting on +263 718 879 398_<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ex-Zim Tennis Player Dies 30 January 2022Jeremiah HarrisonSports Writer Former Zimbabwe Davis Cup Tennis player Gwinyai Chingoka has died. He was 38. He died on Thursday morning at West End&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":684,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=711"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":712,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711\/revisions\/712"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}