Latin Kings

Okkie & Francois started their school career at Durbanville Preparatory - Grades 1 - 3.
 
Grade 4 & 5 they moved to Durbanville Primary School.
 
They started palying tennis at the age of 7 years.
 
They joined Curro Private School (Grade 6) in beginning of this year where the School started a tennis academy.
They have already represented the School at the Sun City National Schools Tournament, where the school came 2nd.
They received their first provincial tennis colours in 2006 in their first year under 10.  They repeated this in 2007.
 
In 2008 again they were awarded provincial colours and they also received their  WP Schools Colours.
In 2009 they were both chosen for the WP Schools teams and they went on to gain SA Schools colours for the under 13 team, although they are still under 12.

 
They  have both been doing well on the individual tournament circuit (mostly local WP & Boland) tournaments and they team up to make a formidable doubles team.
 
Francois is currently ranked no. 9 under 12 in the country and Okkie no. 13.
They team up to ranked as the no. 4 doubles couple in the country.
 
The remainder of the year sees a full programme, with a school tour to Cradock (August), Nationals & Bloemfontein Super 7 (Sept), and Malaysia (SA Schools) (Nov) and WP Super 7 (Dec) and Boland Super 7 (Dec).