Posted on January 14, 2022
#TuksTennis: Donald Ramphadi to make “history” at the 2022 Australian Open Donald Ramphadi will be making "sports history" the very first time his racket connects with the ball during Melbourne's Australian Open Wheelchair Tennis Tournament in Melbourne (23-27 January) 2022.
Posted on October 25, 2021
#TuksTennis: Tuks win the overall title at the 2021 FASU Tennis Slam Championships in Kampala, Uganda That is one way to describe the final day of the recent 2021 FASU Tennis Slam Championships in Kampala, Uganda. Overall, Tuks, under the headship of Blaise Izungu, finished first place and...
Posted on August 24, 2021
#TuksTennis: Kgothatso Montjane will be playing to make South Africa proud at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympics in Japan Being a trailblazer in women's wheelchair tennis has become second nature to Kgothatso Montjane of TuksTennis, who is part of the Tennis South Africa (TSA) high-performance...
Posted on March 23, 2021
Blaise Izungu is a Student Head Coach & Assistant Academy Coach at TuksTennis. From 2014 to 2016, he served as an Assessor for the USSA Tennis Executive Committee and member of the USSA National Team Selection Panel. At the beginning of 2020, he was appointed Tournament Director of USSA...
Posted on February 20, 2021
Evans Maripa arguably has one of the best forehands in international wheelchair tennis. The Tuks based player’s biggest regret last year was never getting an opportunity to hit the "sweet spot" seeing an opponent play and miss. 2020 was monotonous. It felt like all he did was go to the...
Posted on January 29, 2021
Many years ago, a young boy in Ladysmith loved nothing more than to do all kinds of sports and dive into swimming pools. Like many youngsters, he had hoped to become one of the best. When he realised early on it would not happen, he did not get discouraged. Through his participation, he had...
Posted on August 04, 2020
There are not many Tuks athletes who at 15 can boast of having rubbed shoulders with two of the legends of international sport. Kagiso Ledwaba can.
Posted on July 08, 2020
The 19-year old Alwande Sikhosana is a firm believer that wasting energy on a tennis court is a sin.
Posted on March 31, 2020
The South African wheelchair tennis player, Evans Maripa, believes life is what you make off it that is why he is now more motivated to be at his best during next year's Tokyo Olympic Games.
Posted on December 03, 2019
The Tuks based wheelchair tennis player, Mariska Venter, is not lying when she claims to be now twice as good a player as she was in January.
Posted on November 20, 2019
The TuksTennis team is hoping it will be third time lucky when they compete next month in the USSA Tournament in Stellenbosch.
Posted on November 12, 2019
Donald Ramphadi, Evans Maripa and Mariska Venter bagged six titles in the last 12 days. They are part of the recently announced Tennis South Africa (TSA) and TuksSport high-performance programme.
Posted on October 29, 2019
Donald Ramphadi is considered to be a rising star in international wheelchair quad tennis, but champions need to train, and of late he has been battling to do so.
Posted on October 28, 2019
Tennis South Africa (TSA) and the University of Pretoria (TUKS) have announced an exciting new partnership that sees TuksSport and TuksTennis become the official home for the TSA wheelchair Tennis high performance programme, from November 2019 onwards.
Posted on September 23, 2019
South Africa's Chanel Simmonds will be one of the highest-ranked female players participating from next Monday in the ITF World Tour Tennis event at Tuks.
Posted on August 19, 2019
The Tuks based wheelchair tennis player, Mariska Venter, seems on track of maybe qualifying to represent South Africa at next year's Paralympic Games in Tokyo.
Posted on July 22, 2019
South Africa's national beach tennis team established itself as the best in Africa for the first time by beating Morocco during the recent World Team Championship in Moscow.
Posted on July 12, 2019
The number of international tennis events in South Africa continues to grow with the launch, today, of the new Tennis SA TUKS International – set to take place at the University of Pretoria TuksTennis facility, with the main draw getting underway from the 1st October 2019.
Posted on May 15, 2019
Tuks's women's beach tennis players, Helga Jeske and Kyla Yelverton seem to have finetuned winning tournaments to a fine art.
Posted on April 17, 2019
The TuksTennis team achieved a significant breakthrough over the past weekend when they won the Sun City South African Universities Tennis Tournament.
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