Zim junior tennis players excel in Namibia

ZIMBABWE’S team of 11 players reached the second round of the International Tennis Federation (ITF)’s Southern African Junior Championships which started in Windhoek on Sunday where close to 100 junior tennis players are participating.

REPORT BY VITALIS MOYO SPORTS REPORTER

In the boys’ under-12 category, Valentine Munyawiri beat Namibia’s Steenkamp Mans 6-0, 6-0 while Tinashe Hwata won 6-0, 6-0 against Madubula Dlamini of Swaziland and 6-0, 6-0 against Hospen Delspin of Namibia.

In the boys under-14s, Batsirai Saruombe annihilated Thato Holmes of Botswana 6-0, 6-1 and Sethu Shabangu of Swaziland 6-0, 6-0 while Mehluli Sibanda beat Gawanab Dantago of Namibia 6-2, 6-2 and Sakhile Shabangu of Swaziland 6-0, 6-0.

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