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Augustine Boateng Nkrumah, aka \u2018Boat\u2019 in action<\/strong><\/p>\n THERE WERE fireworks at the 4 Garrison Officer\u2019s Mess Tennis Club in Kumasi on Friday morning.<\/p>\n Tennis stars from Mess Tennis locked horns for top honours, in the \u2018Boat Golden Jubilee Tennis Competition\u2019.<\/p>\n The one-day tournament, which produced thrilling encounters, had amazing and mouthwatering prizes at stake.<\/p>\n Augustine Boateng Nkrumah nicknamed as \u2018Boat\u2019, one of the pioneers of Mess Tennis, turned 50 years on the day.<\/p>\n He, therefore, decided to organise the tournament so that he celebrates his big day with his colleague tennis stars.<\/p>\n In the singles tournament finals, Nana Atokorah, Amakom Kontinhene, thumped Isaac Owusu 6-4 to carry the day.<\/p>\n Isaac Owusu, who was the bookmaker\u2019s favourite, started well as his long drives posed problems for Nana Atakorah.<\/p>\n But as the game progressed, Nana Atakorah, who was very determined, relied on his stamina to emerge as winner.<\/p>\n Team Joshua Mensah and Nana Sarpong won the doubles by beating Samuel Ampadu Kyei aka \u2018Kyikyiss\u2019 and Robert Tetteh 7-5.<\/p>\n Augustine Boateng Nkrumah said he was grateful to God for blessing and guiding him to attain 50 years in life.<\/p>\n He said \u201con my Golden Jubilee birthday, I decided to organise the tournament to celebrate with my friends.\u201d<\/p>\n Significantly, the winners took home sumptuous prizes such as specially made hampers, T-shirts among others.<\/p>\n FROM I.F. Joe Awuah Jnr., Kumasi<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \n\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Augustine Boateng Nkrumah, aka \u2018Boat\u2019 in action THERE WERE fireworks at the 4 Garrison Officer\u2019s Mess Tennis Club in Kumasi on Friday morning. Tennis stars from Mess Tennis locked horns for top honours, in the \u2018Boat Golden Jubilee Tennis Competition\u2019. The one-day tournament, which produced thrilling encounters, had amazing and mouthwatering prizes at stake. Augustine […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1006269,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[5514,231,3994,3864,1699,1875],"class_list":["post-1006268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-boat","tag-chief","tag-golden","tag-grabs","tag-jubilee","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1006268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006268\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1006268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1006268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1006268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}