South Africa’s top locally-based tennis players will descend on Cape Town this weekend for one of the country’s premier provincial tournaments, the R35,000 Vodacom Western Province Open, hosted once again by the Western Province Cricket Club.
The ever-green Michele Gough has been named top seed, and she will look to fend off the challenge of defending champion Tamsin Staples. The two recently met in club league championship decider, with Gough edging her left-handed opponent.
The two Cape Town veterans will, however, do well to keep an eye on a brigade of young guns, led by Cape Classic Champion Anna Simons and 2007 South African junior champion, Abigail Olivier.
"We expect it to be another highly competitive tournament with a high standard of tennis, as the players slug it out for their share of what is amongst the highest prize money on offer in South African tennis," says tournament director, Bridget Visee.
Play starts on Saturday and Sunday at 8.30am at WPCC in Ave de Mist, Rondebosch. The finals will be played on Monday morning.
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