The Clarendon High tennis team produced a fine performance to finish as runners-up in the second Sentraal Festival in Bloemfontein at the end of August. The teams were made up of six girls and six boys and they competed in round-robin…
Kgothatso Montjane may not have won the Wimbledon wheelchair singles final on Sunday night but the Limpopo-born player’s star shone bright as she battled top seed and world number one Diede de Groot in the championship-deciding match. It…
World No.5 wheelchair tennis star Kgothatso Montjane ousted Momoko Ohtani 7-6(3) 4-6 6-4 to reach her first Wimbledon final at the All England Lawn Tennis Club in London on Friday. In a big-hitting and big-serving affair‚ it was Montjane…
Spain’s Rafael Nadal demolished world number one Novak Djokovic of Serbia 6-0 6-2 7-5 in the French Open final to claim a record-equalling 20th Grand Slam title on Sunday. With his record-improving 13th triumph at Roland Garros, world…
Twenty-time Grand Slam singles champion Roger Federer said on Wednesday he would be sidelined until 2021 after undergoing his second knee operation in a matter of months. The 38-year-old Swiss said he needed follow-up arthroscopic surgery…
American tennis player Danielle Collins has hit out at men’s world number one Novak Djokovic for his opposition to the Covid-19 protocols proposed by the US Open organisers, saying players need to start earning money again. The hardcourt…
It’s not often I’m gob-smacked by a sporting performance these days. One sees so many wonderful exhibitions of sporting excellence by young men and women on television that in time, one becomes accustomed and perhaps even a little bored…
Wimbledon starts on July 1 and a fortnight later, the winners of the men’s and women’s singles finals will be taking their bow on centre court in front of an adoring crowd and will feel justly proud because that was what they were there…
The Merrifield College boys A tennis team have again proved themselves triumphant at the national Sun City Private Schools Tennis Tournament, held from on August 27 to 31, winning top honours in the A section of the tournament. This is…
Trio to fly SA flag in various disciplines THREE Hudson Park High School pupils, Sisipho Ndlabhu, Kwanda Mbalekwa and Rhys Poovan will be representing South Africa in various sporting disciplines. Sisipho Ndlabhu and Kwanda Mbalekwa, both…
