Ndlovu shines at Commissioner-General’s sports gala Raising the ZRP Bulawayo flag high . . . Maria Ndlovu displays her three gold medals
Raising the ZRP Bulawayo flag high . . . Maria Ndlovu displays her three gold medals

Raising the ZRP Bulawayo flag high . . . Maria Ndlovu displays her three gold medals

Sikhumbuzo Moyo Senior Sports Reporter
BULAWAYO-BASED female police officer Maria Ndlovu was the toast of the ZRP Team Bulawayo when she came back home with three gold medals in tennis from the recently held ZRP Commissioner-General’s Sports Gala in Harare. An ecstatic Ndlovu, who said tennis was in her blood, scooped a singles tennis medal before going all the way to the winners’ podium in the doubles and mixed doubles competitions.
The singles title was her third on the trot having romped to victory in the 2012 and 2013 versions of the annual police sporting extravaganza.

On her way to victory, she won her first match 6-1, 6-0 before winning 6-1, 6-0 in the second match.
In the semi-finals she lost the first tie 2-6 before regrouping to win the second set 6-3 and wrapping up the match 10-1 in tie break.

The final was an all Bulawayo affair where she faced and defeated Prisca Chitambu 6-2, 3-6 and 10-8 in a super tie break.
Her doubles and mixed doubles team with Chitambu and Martin Gwaranda also stood its ground by going all the way to lift gold.

“I am naturally over the moon with my performance and my hard and intense training schedule is bearing fruits,” said Ndlovu who in the two years prior to her moments of glory was always going out in the semi-finals.

Ndlovu said her tennis playing career started at the tender age of six right through her primary education and when she went to secondary school.
“I briefly left tennis and joined basketball where I represented Bulawayo at one time but when I joined the police force I went back to tennis because there was no basketball in the ZRP and I must say that I am not regretting my decision to return to tennis,” she said.

Her next focus now was to represent the country in next year’s Southern African Police Chiefs Co-operations Organisation which Zimbabwe have been dominating since 2009.

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