SA tennis juniors tops in Africa
For the first time since 2012 South Africa's junior tennis players won the ITF/CAT African Junior Championships.
The SA junior tennis team reclaimed their number one position in Africa when they won the team trophy in the 39th ITF/CAT African Junior Championships which ended in Pretoria last weekend.
Defending champions Egypt finished second with Morocco in third.
In a dominant display of top class tennis at the University of Pretoria, SAn junior players in the under 14 and 16 age groups won three of the eight titles up for grabs.
This performance gave the host nation enough points to end top of the log out of 29 countries participating. South Africa last won the title in 2012.
The lone South African singles title was won by Capetonian Makayla Loubser who beat Aisha Niyonkuru of Burundi 7-5 6-3 in the girls under 14. In the boys under 16, South African Philip Henning of Bloemfontein lost in the final to Egyptian Yousef Khamis 6-7 (4) 2-6.
In the doubles, South Africa won two titles and were losing finalist in another age group.
“We are extremely proud of our juniors and their coaches and the tournament organisers” said Gavin Crookes, president of Tennis SA.
“It was indeed an honour and privilege for the International Tennis Federation and Confederation of African Tennis to allow South Africa to host such a prestigious event. We did ourselves proud and with our juniors taking top honours it was the cherry on the cake,” Crookes concluded.
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