![]() In June 2019, a few months before the announcement of the David Samaai Junior Open, Samaai died at his home in Paarl in the Western Cape Province. As Samaai would later describe his game against Forbes it was “a match which could never have materialized at home.” While overseas, he also won several smaller tournaments (mainly in Britain), and played against several of his white countrymen who he wasn’t allowed to play at home and beating some of them convincingly, including the captain of South Africa’s all-white Davis Cup (national) team, Gordon Forbes. ![]() In addition, he also played in the French, German and Swiss Opens. ![]() His best performance was reaching the third round in 1954. He may well be the first black or African tennis player from anywhere in the world to qualify for Wimbledon too. In 2019, that tournament was renamed the David Samaai Junior Open.ĭavid (Davey) Samaai was the first black (and or coloured) South African to play at Wimbledon in 1949. One of these Grade A tournaments is played every October in Cape Town, South Africa. Below these four are a group of six “Grade A” tournaments. The first tier is known as the junior “Grand Slams.” Like with the senior circuit, this refers to the four traditional open tournaments played at Wimbledon, in France, the US, and Australia. Every year the top juniors compete in a series of graded tournaments around the world. It organizes games between professional players, ranks them, and sanctions tournaments. ![]() The governing body of world tennis is the International Tennis Federation. ![]()
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