Highest-Paid Women Athletes Score a Record $167 Million
Sponsors are starting to cast a wider net in women’s sport, resulting in the world’s ten highest-paid women athletes earning a combined $167 million before taxes in 2021.
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Naledi Manyube Dreams of Winning an ITF Title
Western Cape-based Grade 11 learner, Naledi Manyube, is passionate about tennis and looks to tennis’ big-name stars to power her dream of winning an ITF title soon
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Lenise Marais Prepares for Junior Hockey World Cup
SA Junior Women’s Hockey head coach Lenise Marais believes a focus on executing individual skills and collective game strategies will aid performance at the 2021 Women’s FIH Hockey Junior World Cup
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Williams Sisters Boost Wheelchair Tennis
The Williams sisters will inspire budding able bodied and disabled tennis players, says South Africa’s Paralympian and number one ranked wheelchair tennis player KG Montjane.
Williams Sisters Inspire Next Generation
Women’s tennis in South Africa has been given the thumbs up by the legendary Williams sisters, who are in South Africa as part of the Breaking the Mould campaign. Tennis SA says more money is needed to make the women’s game a success.
Update: Venus and Serena Jet into SA
International tennis stars Venus and Serena Williams, spotted at the launch of the South African leg of the Africa Breaking the Mould campaign by Octagon.
Williams Sisters Coming to SA
New “Breaking the Mould” campaign to be launched in South Africa in November, with international tennis stars Venus and Serena Williams expected in the country to promote the campaign.
Bruce the Boundary Breaker
Sunday Read: Entrepreneurial genius Bruce Davidson is the focus of gsport’s recognition of men who make significant contribution to women’s sport in South Africa. In a sector that has traditionally gained remarkably little interest, Davidson is rightly credited for moving heaven and earth to allow our sportswomen make more of their inherent participation rights.
US Open has First Victim
With two South African women entered for play in the 2006 US Open, the annual grand slam already has a women’s singles qualifier victim in Natalie Grandin.