Cape Town — The International Tennis Federation’s week-long Young Seniors World Team Championships (35 to 45 years) ran its course in Cape Town on Friday and France emerged as the big winners with four titles bagged in the six age divisions. A total of 85 teams from 25 nations took part in the event. There was little to shout about for SA’s men and women, though the women’s over-45s side battled it out with defending champions and top-seeded Spain for the Margaret Court Cup but went down 2-0 in the singles format. The Spaniards had wiped all before them en route to the gold medal match with sixth-seeded SA and they went on to edge the hosts in front of the biggest crowd of the week, with both singles rubbers outcomes decided over three sets. Noelia Perez-Penate was first on court for Spain at the Western Province tennis courts on Friday and beat SA’s Lettica Venter 6-3 4-6 6-1 before Ana Salas-Lozano settled the tie in favour of the pretournament favourites with a hard-fought 1-6 6-...
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