Angella Okutoyi will have a chance to gauge herself against some of the best junior tennis players in the world at the ongoing 2022 US Open Tennis tournament.
The Kenyan teenager who surprised many when she won the girls doubles category at the Wimbledon Open in July will start her junior girl’s singles campaign against Germany international Carolina Kuhl.
The two were paired together in the draw that was done on Saturday night.
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Kuhl, who is a year younger than Okutoyi enters the match as the favorite having walloped the Kenyan in October last year at the JA Cape town tennis tournament held in South Africa.
The 18-year-old will battle it out with Kuhl on Sunday, September 4 from 1800hrs East African Time.
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The US Open is the final Grand Slam of the year and Okutoyi will be seeking to register an impressive result in her last junior outing because from next year she will transition to the senior category.
Should Okutoyi make it all the way to the final and emerge the winner, she will not receive any cash because junior athletes are not eligible to receive prize money at Grand Slams tournaments.
However, Angella's junior international ranking will improve and thus make it easier for her to participate in future tournaments.
Okutoyi, a former Mbagathi Primary School student is fresh from winning the girls doubles at the just concluded J1 Repentigny tennis tournament staged at Laroche Park, in Ottawa, Canada.
Okutoyi and her partner Malwina Rowinska of Poland had to come back from behind to beat Amelia Waligora and Ella Seidel 2-1 (3-6, 6-2, 10-8) to bag consecutive doubles titles.
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