RMB NATIONAL ROWING SQUAD IN ACTION AT 115th RMB VLC NATIONAL SPRINTS REGATTA The RMB VLC National Sprints Regatta takes place at Victoria Lake in Germiston on 28 and 29 January 2023. This will be the 115th iteration of the regatta.This regatta brings together athletes from around the country, from U14 juniors through to seniors and masters. A highlight will be the presence of the RMB National Squad, who have their eye on the Olympic qualifiers later this year.“It also kicks off an important year for our masters rowers, who look forward to the World Rowing Masters Regatta 2023 that has been...

SA golf celebrates Denis Hutchinson JOHANNESBURG – South African golf came together to recognise one of its greats at Royal Johannesburg and Kensington Golf Club on Sunday as professionals and amateurs celebrated the incredible contribution Denis Hutchinson has made to the game. The annual Denis Hutchinson Challenge once again brought together professional golfers from the Sunshine Tour, Sunshine Ladies Tour and PGA of South Africa and amateurs from GolfRSA and the South African Golf Development Board to compete as teams in a celebration of Hutchinson’s career as a golfer and a...

Van Rensburg names Davis Cup team 24Jan   South African Davis Cup captain Christo van Rensburg announced his team on Tuesday, led by world-renowned doubles specialist Raven Klaasen, to play against Luxembourg next month. Luxembourg will host South Africa in a World Group II playoff tie on February 4 and 5, 2023 in Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg. Klaasen, the country’s highest-ranked doubles player at number 56 in the world, will lead a squad which includes emerging South African tennis stars Kris van Wyk (26 years old), Alec Beckley (21) and Devin Badenhorst...

BSI Golf From the Founder’s desk See below the news of Pieter de Wet returning to our Golf Coaching Team. Pieter knows the challenges of the development journey through walking the walk himself, like few have done.  As a student in our Academy back in 2007, he arrived as a 5-handicapper playing right-handed. He was ok, but struggling to get to the next level. After a few months we played a fun game of Action Cricket, and I watched Pieter dominate as a very natural left-handed batsman. The next day I proposed we try him as a left-handed golfer. We did an initial video assessment...

Australian Open wheelchair tennis draw   South Africa's players, Kgothatso Montjane and Donald Ramphadi, will compete on Day 1 of the 2022 Australian Open Wheelchair Championships on Tuesday at Melbourne Park in Australia. The unseeded Montjane will face the top-seeded Dutch Diede de Groot in a showpiece women's first-round match on Kia Arena court. Montjane, a former Australian Open doubles finalist, is ranked sixth in the world and hasn't beaten the Dutchwoman since 2015. De Groot has a 22-2 advantage in their head-to-head series, with Montjane winning only...

Louw sets sights on aQuellé Midmar Mile victory after seeding swim success 23 January 2023 – The final seeding swim before the aQuellé Midmar Mile took place at Prime View Adventure and Leisure in Midrand over the weekend. The event, which doubled as the Prime View Water Festival, gave swimmers the opportunity to achieve good seeding times before the aQuellé Midmar Mile, which will celebrate its 50th anniversary from 9-12 February 2023. Making the most of the idyllic venue in Midrand were Henré Louw and Megan Shepherd, who claimed the respective men’s and women’s titles in the...

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Klaasen & Harris out of Australian Open 23Jan   Raven Klaasen and Lloyd Harris' run at the Australian Open has come to an end after the South African pair were defeated in straight sets 6-1, 7-6(4) by eighth-seeded duo Marcel Granollers of Spain and Horacio Zeballos of Argentina in the third round.   Both players put in a great effort! Now on to the next one.