Vosloorus Project

Sport is a great uniform of life - it takes us out of our everyday existence, brings us all together on a "level playing field" and shows us the opportunities we can mould for ourselves through application. 

By focusing our attention on less advantaged communities, the IC’s Philanthropy Programme hopes to give those children an alternative focus to the streets and their inherent dangers of drugs, crime and negative peer pressure. Through tennis, and the dedication and structure it provides, we hope the children in our projects will learn basics such as commitment, self-esteem, respect for fellow players, physical fitness, the benefit of nutrition and how to play by the rules of fairness - all wrapped-up in an overall feeling of fun and enjoyment.

The IC’s first charitable development programme was co-organized in Burundi by the IC of Luxembourg in 2009 with Sport Sans Frontières and the ITF.  The IC Philanthropy committee is currently supporting 10 socially uplifting programmes.   Each programme is administered by one of the IC member countries.  Please click here to find out more.

Our activities are in line with the modern IC’s Mission Statement which includes: “promoting the growth of tennis by, among other things, encouraging participation of the young and the less advantaged”. Our projects in Vosloorus (near Johannesburg) and Kenton-on-Sea (near Port Elizabeth) provide the IC SA with perfect opportunities to put something back into the game which has given us so much.

Involvement in a programme such as this allows them to make new friends, learn how to follow rules, achieve personal goals, improve their self-esteem and stay off the streets.

We hope that for some this opportunity could be life-changing!

Please watch the videos about our existing projects.

Vosloorus

Kenton-on-Sea

Philanthropy News

August 2022
The Restart Of Tournaments

The Restart Of Tournaments

With the tennis calendar so full these days it has been a pity that the one day events organized by Gauteng East Tennis Association have to take a back seat to the more major events. What with tournaments locally plus with South Africa competing in a number of team events within Africa, it was delightful to see the kids enjoying some tournament play last Sunday.

As we have said these events are ideal for the level of play that our children are now. Sadly, with this being the first such event of the year, they have “fallen a bit behind” schedule as to where we had hoped they would be by now.

However, it is very pleasing to note that we had multiple section winners in this round robin event. Huge congratulations go to Banele Xolo and Siyamthanda Silinga who are the young pair with little or no experience and they ended up winning their section. This is a huge leap for both players and in both we have hopes that being only 10 and 11, they will progress even further as time goes by.

Wandile Tshabalala overcame the problem of losing his regular partner due to illness, so he was paired with a young girl and they too, won their section. A superb achievement seeing as the two had never even met before let alone played together.

We were able to give new players both still very young, the opportunity of playing in a tournament and we were delighted that they won one of their matches in the round robin section to finish 5th. This one victory achieved by players with no experience at this level, is heart warming.

Our two top girls Thando Xolo and Angel Nkosi were placed in the top section and found out just how much they to improve to make their mark at that level. However, the experienced they gained by playing against much stronger and more experienced players, will hold them in good stead later on.

As in customary, all players were given medals at the end of the day so in fact all of them were winners.

Once again we applaud the Association for providing tournaments which act as great encouragement for those players who are yet to reach the level whereby they can compete in the sanctioned tournaments staged by the national association. The only for them is up given these type of events.

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