BOONE, N.C. – South African tennis standout Naledi Manyube has signed to affix the App State tennis program for the 2023-24 season, head coach Ashleigh Antal introduced Friday.
“We’re extremely excited to have Naledi be part of our App tennis household this fall,” Antal stated. “Her work ethic and high-level enjoying pedigree will play a pivotal function in our continued success subsequent season. Naledi embodies what it means to be a Mountaineer, and she’s going to undoubtedly make an instantaneous impression.”
A local of George, South Africa, Manyube represented her residence nation final month within the Billie Jean King Cup Europe-Africa Group competitors, which befell in Oeiras, Portugal. It was her second season on the nationwide squad, beforehand serving to South Africa to a fifth-place end in Skopje, North Macedonia in 2022.
Manyube, who has been ranked as a top-10 junior participant in South Africa and a top-300 junior participant worldwide, burst onto the scene in February 2022 when she gained three ITF Junior Grade 5 titles in a two-week span, culminating with a title on the J5 in Durban. She was additionally a part of a tandem that gained the ladies doubles crown on the occasion.
Manyube beforehand competed within the U18 ITF Finals in Johnanasburg, the place she made it to the championship match.
“I actually just like the message and values that App State has. I actually resonated and linked with them,” Manyube stated. “And seeing that App State is a rising setting, I’d like to be part of a program that’s at all times trying to develop and enhance.”
The daughter of Vusumzi and Ntombekhaya Manyube, she plans to main in train science at App State.
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