Luanda, Angola (PANA) – Indebted to the International Tennis Federation (ITF) and the African Tennis Federation (CAT) to the tune of US$ 27,000, the Angolan Tennis Federation (FAT) must clear the debts before returning to international events, the Angolan News Agency (ANGOP) learnt from official sources. Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - The Women’s Tennis Association (WTA) has announced new events in Brazil and Poland for its 2013 calendar, while this season’s prize money will increase by 10 per cent overall to US$58.7 million, British sports business group, Sports Business, reported on Thursday. Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - US tennis superstars and Serena and Venus Williams on Tuesday began visits to schools and charities in three provinces in Kenya at the start of a tour of the East African state. Full text...

Bamako, Mali (PANA) – Mali will host the 13th edition of the International Tennis Prize Money tournament from 14 to 17 November, the Malian Tennis Federation (FMT) told PANA on Saturday. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - World tennis star Serena Williams of the US arrived in Lagos Tuesday for her first-ever visit to Africa's most populous nation. Full text...

Bamako, Mali (PANA) - Mohamed Sekou Drame, who holds dual French and Malian nationality, has won the men's event of the 34th Malian national tennis championship by beating Souleymane Sangare in 2 straight sets. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The Williams sisters, Serena and Venus, will Tuesday storm the city of Lagos, the commercial capital of Nigeria, for an international tour tagged: "Venus & Serena Williams, Live in Lagos", according to local media reports. Full text...

Lome, Togo (PANA) - Table tennis coaches from Togo and Burkina Faso are currently in Lomé undergoing training to upgrade and strengthen their technical skills, PANA learnt here from sports sources. Full text...

Bamako, Mali (PANA) - The Malian Tennis Federation (FMT) has announced an indefinite postponement of the 13th edition of the international Tennis tournament, originally scheduled to hold 9-12 May in Bamako, the capital. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigeria has lost the rights for the West and Central African nations qualifiers for the 2012 African Junior Tennis Championship, in the wake of Friday's deadly attacks that left 185 people dead in the northern city of Kano. Full text...

Maputo, Mozambique (PANA) – The Angolan National Director of Sports, Raimundo Ricardo, has said that his country has the necessary facilities to host the 2013 African cadet and junior table tennis championships, awarded to the Southern African country Wednesday. Full text...

Luanda, Angola (PANA) - The Angolan table tennis players will train in China, a world power in ping pong, in preparation for the Pan-African Games, holding 3-18 September in Mozambique, according to the captain of senior males team, Hermenegildo Agnelo. Full text...

Bamako, Mali (PANA) - Mali's Batiékoro Keita Thursday in Bamako, the Malian capital, took his second title in as many tournaments in the continuing 12th international tennis circuit, when he defeated his elder brother, Mamadou, 6/1, 6/3. Full text...

Bamako, Mali (PANA) - Mali's Keita Batiékoro on Sunday in Bamako won the first stage of the 12th International Tennis Circuit, beating his elder brother and defending champion Mamadou Keita in three sets, 6-4, 6-1, 6-4. Full text...

Bamako, Mali (PANA) – The 12th edition of the international tennis tour "Prize Money" will take place from 22 February to 3 March in Bamako, the Malian capital, sources from the Malian Tennis Federation (FMT) told PANA on Saturday. Full text...

Luanda- Angola (PANA) -- The Angolan national men's senior table tennis team on T hursday qualified for the second phase of the World Cup, beating Kazakhstan 3-1 i n the last group round of the Fourth phase of the World Cup to be held in Russia . Full text...

Harare- Zimbabwe (PANA) -- Zimbabwe will host regional qualifiers for the African Junior Tennis Championships next week, with the participation of 10 countries, s ports officials said Wednesday. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Nigeria will host the Africa Junior Tennis Championship next year, according to an official of the Nigeria Tennis Federation, Mr Adeyemi Owoseni. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Tunisia and South Africa are plotting to snatch Nigeria' s national table tennis coach, Babatunde Obisanya, and have opened discussions w i th him in that regard, the local press reported Friday. Full text...

Kinshasa- DR Congo (PANA) -- Congo won the 18th African nations' table tennis cha mpionship, which ended Sunday in Kinshasa, with DR Congo, the host country, fini s hing in fourth place, PANA reports. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- American tennis star Serena Williams was scheduled to arrive in Nairobi late Thursday to open a school she co-funded with technology firm Hewlett Packard (HP). Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Global tennis sensations Williams sisters, Venus and Serena, are due in Nigeria in November 2008 in what will be their first-ever joint visit to Africa, according to the organisers of the visit. Full text...

Beijing- China (PANA) -- Nigeria's Table Tennis sensation, Segun Toriola, has con tinued to impress in his chosen event, reaching the last 16 in the men's singles at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Full text...

Tripoli- Libya (PANA) -- Libya will host an international tennis tournament for p layers aged under 18 years, the Libyan Tennis Federation announced here Monday, s aying that the players were expected from 13 Arab, European and Asian countries f or the championships beginning 22 August. Full text...

Tripoli- Libya (PANA) -- Libya will host an international tennis tournament for p layers aged under 18 years, the Libyan Tennis Federation announced here Monday, s aying that the players were expected from 13 Arab, European and Asian countries. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Nigeria's representatives at the three-week International Tennis Federation Under-13 boys' competition in Dakar, Senegal, emerged overall winners despite a late surge that saw their Ghanaian opponents winning the singles and doubles titles in the third and final week. Full text...

Tripoli- Libya (PANA) -- The Libyan general tennis Union is preparing to host the Community of Sahelian-Saharan States (CEN-SAD) maiden tennis championship slate d for the next few months. Full text...

Accra- Ghana (PANA) -- Ghana's junior table tennis team, the Junior Black Loopers , left here Thursday for Cairo, on its way to Alexandra to participate in the Af r ican Juniors and Cadets Championships, slated for Egypt from 3-13 April. Full text...

Benin- Nigeria (PANA) -- Frenchman Jeremy Bladin snatched the men's singles title at Nigeria's Ogbe Hard court international tennis tournament which ended here S a turday. Full text...

Rabat- Morocco (PANA) -- Rabat, the capital of Morocco, will host the African T ennis Cup of Nations tournament from 20 to 26 January under the aegis of the Afr i can Confederation of Tennis, official source told PANA Monday. Full text...

Tripoli- Libya (PANA) -- Players from seven countries are expected in Tripoli next week to join host Libya for the Al-Fateh international tennis tournament, sports officials said here Sunday. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- US female tennis star, Serena Williams, arrived here Wednesday on a five-day humanitarian campaign to assist Senegalese women and youth. Full text...

Saint Denis- Reunion (PANA) -- The 13th edition of international tennis tournament dubbed "Top Jeunes 2006" opened here Sunday in Saint-Pierre, southern Reunion, with South Africa, Bulgaria, Côte d'Azur (France), Botswana, Madagascar, Mauritius, Mayotte and Reunion involved in the competition. Full text...

Accra- Ghana (PANA) – The Ghana Tennis Association- (GTA), in conjunction with the International Tennis Federation (ITF), will hold its maiden edition of the ITF Men's Future Championship here from 22- 29 October. Full text...

Kigali- Rwanda (PANA) – Rwanda is represented in the regional U-- 15 tennis tournament, slated for Friday in Dar es-Salaam (Tanzania), by two young people aged 10 and 11 years, sports sources told PANA here. Full text...

Abuja- Nigeria (PANA) -- President Olusegun Obasanjo has commended Nigeria's Davis Cup team, which recently gained promotion into the Euro-Africa Zone Group II of the prestigious tennis competition. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- The Nigerian government plans to fete the Davis Cup tennis team that secured the country's promotion to the Euro-Africa Zone II of the prestigious competition, the local press reported Wednesday. Full text...

Kigali- Rwanda (PANA) - – Ten Rwandan players will compete in the Davis Cup, scheduled to open 24 July in Gaborone, Botswana, sport sources in Kigali announced Wednesday. Full text...

Bamako- Mali (PANA) -- Senegalese Daouda Ndiaye won the seventh edition of the cash prize tennis tournament after beating Burkinabe, Zakaria Lonfo, in the final match played Sunday in Bamako. Full text...

Rabat- Morocco (PANA) -- Morocco's leading tennis star, Younes El Aynaoui, who plays for the Sporting Club Geovillage in Italy, has categorically denied claims that he took THC (cannabis) as alleged by the Italian sports Medicine Federation. Full text...

Kinshasa- DR Congo (PANA) -- The Democratic Republic of Congo will in 2006 host the 17th African Cup of Nations (CAN) in table tennis, the Secretary General of the DRC Table Tennis Association, Mathieu Mbuta, said Wednesday here. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Four Kenyan players will represent the country in this year's Afro-Arab wheelchair table tennis championships starting on 2 December in Egypt. Full text...

Cotonou- Benin (PANA) -- Here are the first round results in Benin's tennis championships played Thursday in Cotonou: Under 21 men Djomakin Romuald - Degbe Brice 2-0 Saïzonou Sourou - Sègla Romuald 2-0 Alowakinou Pascal - Malate Parfait 2-0 Segodo Nicolas - Mora Arnaud 2-0 Karim Toloutou - Okou Aristide 2-1 Houndedji Gilles - Houndelo Felix 2-0 De Campos Tunde - Agbochan Michel 2-0 Under 17 men Oketokoun Idriss - Hounsou Justin 2-0 Togbe Herve - Kpossi Benjamin 2-0 Kponou Mafou beat Baorou Fiacre (abandoned) Allowakinou Rodrigue - Honvo Thomas 2-0 De Campos Femi - Souleymane Moubarak 2-0 Djossou Roland - Boko Bovis 2-0 Yakpa Magloire - Codjo Charles 2-0 Under 14 men Zannou Rodrigue - Soundja Thomas 2-0 Ablola Arnaud - Attinkpa Belano 2-0 Fanou Romaric - Assouma Sabik 2-0 Under 12 men Djossou Bernadin - Kponou Amaziath 9-3 Tetevi Florent - Houssou Françis 9-1 Idrissou Falilou - Gandonou Romeo 9-2 Under 17 women Gandonou Bernice - Adeyemi Urielle 2-0 Ahounou Christelle - Hontongnon Frida 2-0 Houssa Lilia - Bonou Gésika 2-0 Degbe Ida - Wallis Salamath 2-0 Under 14 women Azo Léa - Ibrahim Boukaya 2-0 Nagbé Christelle - Kponou Kafilath 2- 0 N'Tcha Stéphanie - Soumanou Faridat 2-0 Full text...

Cotonou- Benin (PANA) -- Benin's four-day national tennis championships kicks off Thursday at the Tennis Club of Amitie Stadium in Cotonou, a tennis official has said. Full text...

Accra- Ghana (PANA) -- Georgia beat Ghana 3-2 to send the West Africans down to the Euro-Africa Zone III Tennis Davis Cup category at the end of their extended Zone II ties at the Accra Sports Stadium Monday. Full text...

Accra- Ghana (PANA) -- The reverse singles matches between Ghana and Georgia at the ongoing Davis Cup Tennis tournament were rained off in Accra Sunday, forcing the organisers to shift the competition to Monday. Full text...

Accra- July 16 -- PANA - Georgia on Saturday won the doubles match by three sets to one to lead Ghana 2-1 in the Euro Africa Zone II Davis Cup match being played at the Frank Ofori Centre Court of the Accra Sports Stadium. ) Full text...

Accra- July 15 -- PANA - Ghana and Georgia tied 1-1 on the opening day of their Euro Africa Zone II Davis Cup competition played Friday at the Frank Ofori Centre Court of the Ohene Gyan Sports Stadium in Accra. ) Full text...

Cape Town- South Africa (PANA) -- Wheelchair tennis sport will be officially launched in South Africa this year, thanks to a partnership between the Airports Company of South Africa (ACSA), the SA Tennis Association, Disability Sports SA and the SA Sports Association for Physically Disabled. Full text...

Accra- Ghana (PANA) -- The Akosombo Textiles Limited (ATL) Table Tennis League 5th week results: Men's Division: Ashanti Region 0 Ghana Navy 3 Winneba Club 1 Koforidua 3 Kwanyako 3 Street Academy 0 Ghana Police 3 Aflao Vilca Bamba 0 Ghana Customs 3 Swedru 0 Greater Accra 3 Ghana Universities 2 Ghana Telecom 0 GASSA 3 Tema 0 Fire Service 3 Eastern Region 0 Cape Coast 3 Women's Division: Ghana Police 3 Swedru 0 Winneba Club 3 Fire Service 0 Eastern Region 3 Ghana Universities 0 Cape Coast 3 Street Academy 0 GASSA 3 Ashanti Region 0 GCPS 3 Ghana Navy 1 Greater Accra 0 Kwanyako 3 Full text...