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Tennis SA extends Ondruska’s Davis Cup contract

The tenure of Marcos Ondruska (pictured here) as captain of the KIA SA Davis Cup team has been extended for a further three years by Tennis South Africa.

Tennis South Africa (TSA) has confirmed that Marcos Ondruska’s tenure as South African Davis Cup Captain has been extended for a further three years.

Ondruska will take responsibility for the SA Davis Cup team until the end of the 2020 Davis Cup campaign. His role has also been widened to include involvement in the new TSA junior national squad system – including responsibility for the SA U18 boys team who participate in the annual African Junior Championships.

In March 2016, Ondruska was announced Captain and under his guidance, South Africa have been promoted into Euro/Africa Group 1 – after beating Denmark 3-1 in September 2017. Ondruska has also captained South Africa to four wins in the five ties he has taken charge of.

The former ATP pro and Davis Cup player said he was ecstatic to be reappointed as Davis Cup captain.

“It is with great pride that I accept the position of KIA SA Davis Cup captain, and I look forward to another 3 years of progress. With the continued support from Richard Glover and the rest of the team at TSA, we are excited to work closely together and to give a good push over this next term to get the team into the World Group. This has been the goal since I started and we’ll continue to move forward and find ways to support the team to reach this,” said Ondruska.

Richard Glover, CEO of TSA said it was a very easy decision to reappoint Ondruska.

“He has proven to be an excellent Captain and has built a very positive culture in the team. He is a big asset for tennis in South Africa and we are looking to involve him in other aspects of our high performance programme, as we look to build depth within our Davis Cup structures,” Glover concluded.

 

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Koos Venter

Koos Venter is an experienced journalist who started his career 35 years ago, before the days of cellphones, modern computer systems, the internet and digital cameras, as a correspondent for Nexus, the former national magazine of the Department of Correctional Services. He has since worked for various other publications in all aspects of news coverage, as a columnist and in the production side of newspapers and online publications. Since 2007 he has specialized as a sports writer, while he is also regularly used as an analyst and commentator by several radio stations.
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