Rising Star Tennis Tournament

This past Saturday, 1 October, Unionโ€™s u/16 girlsโ€™ tennis team, consisting of ๐—ง๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐—ฎ ๐—™๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐—ถ๐—ฟ๐—ฎ, ๐—–๐—ฎ๐˜†๐˜๐—ฎ๐—ต-๐—Ÿ๐—ฒ๐—ถ๐—ด๐—ต ๐—ž๐—ผ๐—ฒ๐—ฏ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐—ด, ๐—ž๐—ฒ๐—ป๐˜‡๐—ฎ ๐—ก๐—ฒ๐—ถ๐—น๐—น and ๐—ฆ๐—ฎ๐—ฑรฉ ๐— ๐—ฎ๐˜† participated in the Eastern Cape Provincial Finals of the Tennis South Africa, BNP Paribas Rising Star Tennis Tournament, hosted by Kingswood College.

The Girlsโ€™ draw consisted of Union High School, Graaff-Reinet, Despatch High, Stirling High, Clarendon High and Kingswood College. ๐™€๐™–๐™˜๐™ ๐™ง๐™ค๐™ช๐™ฃ๐™™ ๐™˜๐™ค๐™ฃ๐™จ๐™ž๐™จ๐™ฉ๐™š๐™™ ๐™ค๐™› ๐™ฉ๐™ฌ๐™ค ๐™จ๐™ž๐™ฃ๐™œ๐™ก๐™š๐™จ ๐™–๐™ฃ๐™™ ๐™ค๐™ฃ๐™š ๐™™๐™ค๐™ช๐™—๐™ก๐™š๐™จ ๐™ข๐™–๐™ฉ๐™˜๐™.

Our girls performed admirably and after a wonderful day of tennis โ€“ and what turned out to be the closest provincial tournament in recent memory – our girls finished 5th overall.

๐˜œ๐˜ฏ๐˜ช๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ ๐˜ฆ๐˜น๐˜ต๐˜ฆ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฅ๐˜ด ๐˜ข ๐˜ฉ๐˜ถ๐˜จ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ค๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ๐˜จ๐˜ณ๐˜ข๐˜ต๐˜ถ๐˜ญ๐˜ข๐˜ต๐˜ช๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ๐˜ด ๐˜ต๐˜ฐ ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ ๐˜จ๐˜ช๐˜ณ๐˜ญ๐˜ด ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ๐˜ช๐˜ณ ๐˜ค๐˜ฐ๐˜ฎ๐˜ฎ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฅ๐˜ข๐˜ฃ๐˜ญ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ฆ๐˜ง๐˜ง๐˜ฐ๐˜ณ๐˜ต๐˜ด ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ค๐˜ฐ๐˜ถ๐˜ณ๐˜ต๐˜ด!