ZAMBIA’S junior tennis team delivered a series of determined and encouraging performances at the ITF/CAT Southern Africa Junior Championships, which concluded on January 17 in Gaborone, Botswana, finishing an impressive fifth overall out of 11 competing nations. Hosted at the National Tennis Centre, the regional showpiece brought together Southern Africa’s finest young talents, and Zambia’s contingent rose to the challenge, demonstrating marked improvement, resilience and growing competitiveness across all age categories. Zambia’s overall fifth-place finish in the final nation rankings underlined the country’s steady progress on the junior tennis scene and reflected the collective effort of players, coaches and administrators in recent development programmes. The U-16 girls emerged as Zambia’s standout performers, narrowly missing out on a podium finish after...
