By: Jayne Hamilton Chapomba
A group of seven members, comprising of Chair, Secretary, Treasurer and four representatives from the four southern region tennis centres to hold Team Loving Tennis social event at Nchalo Sports Club tomorrow.
Team Loving Tennis events which occur monthly in circles among its four centres of Nchalo, Blantyre (Limbe Country Club), Zomba (Gymkhana) and Thyolo Sports club aims at reviving the game in the southern region.
“Team Loving Tennis is a group of adults that was formed to help the tennis association in areas where we see a need to help like maintenance of tennis courts, tennis tournaments and others”. Said Jayne Chapomba, general secretary for the group in an interview today.
She further said that the group also sources funds which is used for sponsoring Junior Tournaments.
“Our goal is to keep uplifting the sport which is on the verge of dying. So far, we have renovated the Gymkhana club court in Zomba, and we plan to do the same in other dilapidated tennis courts”, said Jayne.
Team Loving Tennis holds both junior and senior sections during every event the juniors get coached by a qualified coach and the seniors get to play doubles matches based on points and at the end find the winners for both sections.
According to the acting general secretary for Lawn Tennis Association of Malawi’s (LTAM) Regina Dembo, Tennis is deemed difficult especially by older people hence these events were created to show the athletes that tennis is easy to play by using the softer balls.
“Team Loving Tennis events have attracted the interest of many people to love the game hence increasing the number of Tennis players in the country.
Team Loving Tennis is somehow assisting LTAM’s as well as ITF’s strategic goals in increasing participation”, said Regina.
The last event was held at Gymkhana Sports Club in Zomba
