Singles defending champions missing this year’s Britam Kenya Open showpiece
639 views · Published 13 September 2018 · 0:54 · Indexed 27 September 2026
Channel: NTV Kenya · 2018 · Sports
The defending champions for the men’s and women’s singles events will be absent at this year’s Britam Kenya Open Tennis Championship that serves off Saturday at the Nairobi Club. Ugandan, Duncan Mugbae, (men) and Natali Coronel (women) of Argentina, who clinched the respective titles at last year’s finals, have not entered for this year’s showpiece. By Thursday’s deadline for entries, a record 73 men and 35 women had registered for Tennis Kenya’s biggest calendar event. This year’s championship has attracted players from Zimbabwe, Zambia, Rwanda, Uganda, Japan, Ethiopia, Tanzania, Burundi, Germany, Sudan, Ghana, Zambia as well as hosts Kenya. In the absence of the defending champions, siblings Ishmael and Shufaa Changawa of Kenya will be favourites to reclaim their men and women’s crowns having relinquished them last year.
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