Junior tennis players begin training

Nine junior players from the city will represent the country in the competition that will run from 31 March to 4 April in South Africa.
National team’s boys coach Artwell Mutape is training the five boys that made it into the team with the Bulawayo Metropolitan Province Tennis Board chairman Adam Joelson in charge of the girls.
The boys who are in the national team are Falcon College’s Under-15s duo of Adam Keefe and Ruhan Scheepers, Under-17’s Frank Dollar and Under-19 star Bryn Langley.
Gifford’s up and coming ace and the only player who was in the CBC and Falcon College dominated squad that went for the national championships last month, Friedlanda Kadzombe also made it into the Zimbabwe team for South Africa.
Kadzombe, an Under-17 player has in the past represented Bulawayo Metropolitan Province in a number of tournaments. 
Langley has lots of experience and last year competed in the inaugural Girls College Tennis Centre Singles League that was for senior players and lost in the semi-finals.
The Falcon College tennis player has won a number of local tournaments.
Thembela Ndlovu of Dominican Convent who was part of Zimbabwe’s Under-17 girls team last year, which also had Tafadzwa Mawisire, made it for a second successive year and will represent the country in the Under-19s.
Tafadzwa who is young sister to Fadzai and Vimbai who are in the United States of America on tennis scholarships, did not participate at this year’s national championships.
Ndlovu, a budding tennis star is among favourites to come tops in South Africa.
Nicole Dumbujena and Girls College’s duo of Vongai Sigauke and Nikita Daka who were in last year’s Under-15 squad are also training hard for the trip to South Africa.
Dumbujena and Sigauke qualified for the Under-17 side while Daka will travel with the Under-15 team.
Daka missed out on last year’s trip due to the competition regulations that do not allow Form Ones to travel to South Africa.
Joelson said the players would at the weekend travel to Harare for training with the rest of the national team players.