{"id":459527,"date":"2025-12-20T07:14:15","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T07:14:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/459527\/"},"modified":"2025-12-20T07:14:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T07:14:15","slug":"baton-rouge-tennis-veteran-named-usta-southern-captain-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/459527\/","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\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">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":3,"featured_media":459528,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[206995,209878,209874,209876,78208,353,11110,62,209877,1464,67,132,68,101776,209875,209873,209872],"class_list":{"0":"post-459527","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-batonrouge","9":"tag-cancerfree","10":"tag-captainoftheyear","11":"tag-communitytennis","12":"tag-educator","13":"tag-louisiana","14":"tag-mentorship","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-sportsmanship","17":"tag-tennis","18":"tag-united-states","19":"tag-unitedstates","20":"tag-us","21":"tag-usta","22":"tag-ustaleague","23":"tag-ustasouthern","24":"tag-wilbertdocwhitfield"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115750664012841040","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=459527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459527\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/459528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=459527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=459527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=459527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}