{"id":8342,"date":"2022-07-12T07:37:23","date_gmt":"2022-07-12T07:37:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/?p=8342"},"modified":"2022-07-12T07:37:26","modified_gmt":"2022-07-12T07:37:26","slug":"history-makers-in-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/?p=8342","title":{"rendered":"History Makers in Town!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Newly -crowned Wimbledon girls\u2019 doubles junior champion Angela Okutoyi landed at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport on Monday night to a heroin\u2019s welcome, one that is usually identical with gold-medal laden athletes when they land back home.Traditional dancers, dignitaries and ordinary Kenyans gathered around the arrivals bay at the airport, eager to catch a glance at the latest history maker in town.Okutoyi became the first ever Kenyan to win a Grand Slam when she clinched the girls double at Wimbledon alongside her Dutch partner Rose Marie Nijkamp.The duo recorded a  3-6, 6-4 and 11-9 win over the Canadian duo of Kayla Cross and Victoria Mboko at Wimbledon.The youngster was elated over the win and described it as a huge milestone in her career on grass.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/FB_IMG_1657611170641-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8344\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/FB_IMG_1657611170641-1.jpg 720w, https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/FB_IMG_1657611170641-1-480x320.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) 720px, 100vw\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Newly -crowned Wimbledon girls\u2019 doubles junior champion Angela Okutoyi landed at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport on Monday night to a heroin\u2019s welcome, one that is usually identical with gold-medal laden athletes when they land back home.Traditional dancers, dignitaries and ordinary Kenyans gathered around the arrivals bay at the airport, eager to catch a glance [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8343,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/FB_IMG_1657611170641.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8342"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8345,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8342\/revisions\/8345"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}