Rising tennis star Kelly Arends is continuing with her family’s legacy of playing the sport, she also hopes to become a well-known international player in the not-so-distant...
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Simmonds Charts Return to Top 200 in Sun City
South Africa’s second highest world ranked women tennis player, Chanel Simmonds, is back in the country to play in this week’s Sun City Futures 2 event. Presently ranked 237 on...
Grainger Replaces de Jager as Fed Cup Captain
Tennis South Africa (TSA) announced that Earl Grainger would take over as Fed Cup captain from John-Laffnie De Jager, and would take responsibility of his role for the two-year...
Hattingh Leads Soweto Wildcards Quartet
African junior champion, Ilze Hattingh, Fed Cup players Madrie le Roux and Natasha Fourouclas and Zanmarie Pienaar are the four wildcards chosen by Tennis SA for the Soweto Open,...
Janet Koch Impresses in Stellenbosch
The girls’ top seed, Janet Koch, caught the eye on the opening day of the SAS Junior ITF 2 tournament at the Maties Tennis Club, in Stellenbosch, on Monday. Koch, a promising...
2007 June gSTAR: Alicia Pillay
Alicia Pillay’s childhood dream was to represent South Africa at the Olympics. She was nominated for the 2004 Olympics, but as Alicia tells us, due to “the...
Amanda Coetzer, the Little Assassin
As they say, all good things must come to an end! And that’s where Amanda Coetzer finds herself after a decade and a half in the glare of the sporting media’s...
Unearthing Tennis Stars
Since Amanda Coetzer’s retirement from competitive tennis, South Africa has struggled to unearth a women’s star who has been able to make it big...
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