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Top seed Ruan Roelofse moves into the net.
Today, 20 March 2010
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Staff Reporter
South Africa’s top locally-based tennis players will descend on Cape Town this weekend for one of the country’s premier provincial tournaments, the 2008 Vodacom Western Province Open.
Carrying prize-money of R35000, the tournament is again hosted by Western Province Cricket Club and features Belville-born Ruan Roelofse and the ever-green Michele Gough as the top seeds in the men’s singles and women’s singles respectively. Big things are expected from Roelofse, who ended 2007 as the top ranked junior player in South Africa. The 18-year-old enjoyed a scintillating start to the year by reaching the final of the prestigious Cape Classic. This earned him a wildcard into the main draw of the South African Open where he went down in three close sets to a player ranked inside the world’s top 200. Roelofse is expected to face a stiff challenge for honours from KwaZulu-Natal’s big-hitting left-hander Gareth Greenwood and Nikala Scholtz, South Africa’s current number one junior player. Scholtz, the highly promising son of former Western Province rugby star Calla, recently won the International Junior Championships of Botswana, before reaching the semifinals of the African Junior Championships. In the women’s event Gough will look to fend off the challenge of defending champion Tamsin Staples. The two recently met in club league championship decider with Gough edging her left-handed opponent. The two Cape Town veterans will however do well to keep an eye on a brigade of young guns led by Cape Classic Champion Anna Simons and 2007 South African junior champion, Abigail Olivier. “We expect the 2008 Vodacom Western Province Open to be another highly competitive tournament with an incredibly high standard of tennis as the players slug it out for their share of what is amongst the highest prize money on offer in South African tennis,” says tournament director, Bridget Visee. Play starts on Saturday and Sunday at 8.30am at WPCC in Ave de Mist, Rondebosch. The finals will be played on Monday morning.
