East Coast Sports and Buffalo City Tennis will be hosting the first-ever Buffalo City Junior Tennis Tournament on October 15.
The tournament aims to revive grassroots tennis, especially for children attending schools in low-income areas.
The tournament, which is sponsored by Ziyifour and Kumkani FM hopes to initiate more development in club tennis, enhance talent identification and increase capacity building of coaches, officials and administrators.
The tournament will be held at Selborne Park Tennis Club and will run for an entire day, from 8am to 5pm.
All are invited, whether at beginner or advanced level.
The programme includes a workshop on the basics of the game, coaching clinics on form and sessions on the importance of sport for mental and physical health, among other developmental areas.
Students from u/10 to u/18 from schools across the metro are invited to attend.
East Coast Sports is a local NPO that hopes to develop sport among the youth, especially in low-income areas.
East Coast Sports director Lifa Sompuku said: “Tennis as a sport is not known in our black community. The intention is to take tennis to the people, with the help of the municipality, departments of sport and education and local businesses.
“We want to see tennis played in Mdantsane, Duncan Village and rural areas around East London,” Sompuku said.
