In the Australian Open Junior Championships next week Valeria Bhunu who is from Zimbabwe and she being the leading female junior tennis player will rub shoulders with some of the world’s leading junior players in the sport she will take part in.
At Melbourne Park, the Australian Open Junior Championships on Saturday with the finals scheduled for January 26. The ‘seniors’ tournament will run concurrently where Cara Black in the women’s doubles is representing the Zimbabwe’s. The Growing Sports Tennis Academy in Cape Town, South Africa where Bhunu is based at is currently one of the leading female junior tennis players on the continent.
The promising 17-year-old tennis player will be hoping to use the tournament to make a good impression against some of the world’s top junior tennis players in the year’s first Grand Slam on the International Tennis Federation (ITF) junior’s circuit.
Grand slams are the most prestigious events on the junior circuit and are allocated the most ranking points.
Currently she ranked 374 in the world, will kick-start her campaign from the qualifying draw and will need to win some matches before earning her place in the main draw. Furthermore, she doesn’t know or the identity of her opponents as the draw for the junior’s tournament was yet to be conducted.
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