South Africa

Although the year has been disrupted due to the pandemic, Gauteng East Tennis Association managed to squeeze in another one day event for the up and coming players with a doubles competition on 6 December.

In view of the number of younger and newer players that have come along, it was decided to hold an informal Play and Stay morning at Vosloorus. There is a resurgence of young and in some cases very young, players coming along and this idea was an excellent way to introduce them to the game of tennis.

This year as we all know has not been a normal year. Usually our junior provincial teams will take part in the National inter provincial tournament and also possibly have friendly matches against those provinces close to Gauteng.

September 2020

Training recommences at Vosloorus after six months away due to Covid-19 - click through to watch the video!

With the Government having reduced the pandemic  down to Level 3, and also allowed coaches to return to work albeit on a limited scale, we have been able to recommence the development program at Vosloorus.

Backyards and empty plots became tennis venues during lockdown - click 'read more' to watch the video.

The youngest members get their first taste of tennis!  Click read more to watch the video

In a continuing attempt to give the children form the development program at Vosloorus different training and competition they played a friendly match against Janet Jooste Tennis Academy in Alberton which is close to Vosloorus.

Gauteng East Tennis Association held their last one day tournament of the year on Saturday. We entered eight children from our Vosloorus programme which meant that in the four tournaments we supported throughout the year, we entered 34 children of which 26 played in a tournament for the first time.