The Tennis South Africa junior national squads for the 2019/20 tennis season were announced during Sunday (6 October 2019) evening’s TSA Junior Awards Dinner in Potchefstroom.
The selections were made by a selection panel of five selectors and signed off by the President of Tennis South Africa – in line with the following guidelines:
Objective: To select 8 players per age group & gender.
Key Criteria: Combined ranking, Head to heads & results at key events.
Other key considerations: TSA Transformation Policy, 2019 Growthpoint Masters results (for 50/50 decisions), Previous national team representation and Attitude (team player, discipline on and off the court).
Girls U12:
Botshelo Diseko
Morgan Jordaan
Lisa-Marie du Toit
Madison Ann Edwards
Georgia Mackay
Allegra van der Walt
Gabriella Koekemoer
Bailey Selvam
Girls U14:
Mari Louise van Zyl
Carli Kruger
Kaitlyn Ramduth
Yenzokuhle Dladla
Danielle Chapman
Amelie van Zyl
Donna le Roux
Jani Steyn
Girls U16:
Leigh van Zyl
Naledi Manyube
Heike Janse van Vuuren
Lilitha Ndungane
Suzanie Pretorius
Mikayla Faure
Line Greyling
Carle Botha
Tayla Wilmot (invite)
Anna Wise (invite)
Girls U18:
Maretha Burger
Kelly Arends
Delien Kleinhans
Ntokozo Zungu
Lara van der Merwe
Christine Kruger
Ine Lamprecht
Mbali Langa
Isabella Weatherhead (invite)
Lente Taljard (invite)
Photo 1 Caption: Tennis South Africa junior national squads for the 2019/20 tennis season were announced during Sunday, 6 October 2019, TSA Junior Awards Dinner in Potchefstroom. Photo: Tennis SA
With editing by gsport