The two finalists, who conquered West Africa in April, will represent Ghana in Morocco in the Africa Junior Championship next month. In the girls U-12 division, Tracy Amaph from Tarkwa beat Sekina Adams from Tema 6-2,1-6,6-4 to win that category whilst Bright Nortey of Osu brushed aside competition from Ishmael Dowuona 7-6, 6-3 to win the boys U-14 category. In the rest of the categories, Aaron Asante, Mariama Ibrahim and Aleona Ankrah won in the boys U-16, girls U-16 and the girls U-14 respectively.

For their efforts they received a cash prize of GHC2,000 and educational scholarship from McDan Group of Companies, sponsors of the championship. They were also given gold medals, a certificate and products from Twellium Industries. The runner ups also walked away with GHC1,500, scholarships, silver medals, certificates and products from Twellium Industries.

The semi finalists were also rewarded with an amount of GHC1,000 scholarship, bronze medals, certificates and products from Twellium. The President of the Ghana Tennis Federation (GTF) commended the sponsors for investing in the development of Tennis and in the country, saying that, “this is exactly what we need to develop the budding talents in the sport.”

“This has been a successful competition and the future looks bright for Ghana Tennis. There are many talents in the country. "This event came at the right time as when junior team will be competing in the Africa Championship and this will help them to correct the rough edges and deliver.

We will continue training from here.” Ms Abigail Mckorley of McDan Group of Companies said she was pleased with the reintroduction of the competition and that the event is here to stay.

She promised a mega Junior Open tourney next year and encouraged the losers not to despair but to continue training towards future tournaments.