Katoto Tennis Tournament Attracts Over 50 Young Blood Players In Dodoma City -

👉 During its inception, the Academy started with four children only, but today the clinic has over 40 young talented tennis players

DODOMA. OVER 50 young tennis players have participated in the second edition of Katoto Tennis Tournament (KTT) held this afternoon, Saturday, September 6, 2025, in Dodoma Capital City.

Organized by the Dodoma- based Katoto Tennis Academy, the second edition of the timely tournament attracted the young blood tennis players from Arusha, Dar es Salaam, Morogoro regions, and the host Dodoma.

Mr Paul Ngavi

Speaking to reporters in the sideline of the ground-breaking tennis gala, the coordinator of the Tournament – cum the Chief Coach of the Academy, Mr Paul Ngavi said they had decided to introduce the tournament with a vision to promote the racket game in Capital City, and the central zone as a whole.

“During its inception, this Academy started with four children only, but today the clinic has over 40 young talented tennis players,” he said.

The Nairobi- based tactician expressed that the Academy has an array of plans to expand adoption of the game in the region including including envisaged target to establish tennis clubs from grass roots levels, starting from primary schools up to secondary schools.

He appealed to the Government to support introducing tennis from grassroots, saying the game is crucial for strengthening children health, as well as cognitive growth.

Mr Bernard Konga

For his part, Mr Bernald Konga, a father of Noran Konga, a young female player at the Academy urged parents to support their children to join the club.

“I used to be a good player of many games, including soccer, basketball and volleyball, but I never thought of tennis,”

“So when it comes to selecting a game which I wanted to assist my daughter to affiliate tennis emerges, especially after coming aware of Katoto Tennis Academy,” he expressed.

Mr Konga said since joining the Academy, her child has undergone positive physical and mental growth, urged other parents to borrow a leaf.

The other parent, Ms Sharifa Adon from Arusha spoke over the need for parents, and society in larger to deter from a negative perception that tennis is played by riches.

“For instance, in Katoto Tennis Academy there are some children who have been picked from orphanage center and others from common families,” she said.

Hellen Mtaka, the young tennis player at the Academy said: “I started tennis training at this club at the age of three, and so far, I have managed to masterminding the game to the tune of competing and winning at different famous tournament in the country,”

She added her dreams is to become famous like Serena William, saying the sport, tennis is useful at refreshing mind, but help the player to heighten his/ her decision making, as well as academic performance.

ABOUT TENNIS

Tennis is a racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent (singles) or between two teams of two players each (doubles). Each player uses a tennis racket strung with a cord to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over or around a net and into the opponent’s court.

The object is to manoeuvre the ball in such a way that the opponent is not able to play a valid return. If a player is unable to return the ball successfully, the opponent scores a point.