Kenya and the Grand Slam Touring Team have a Grand Slam champion

Kenya has its first Grand Slam champion, in any discipline, after Angella Okutoyi triumphed in the Junior Championships, Wimbledon girls' doubles final alongside partner Rose Marie Nijkamp of the Netherlands.

Okutoyi, who is a member of the Grand Slam Player Development Programme/ITF Touring Team and was initially introduced to tennis in Kenya through the ITF Junior Tennis Initiative (JTI), combined with Nijkamp to defeat Canadian pair Victoria Mboko and Kayla Cross 3-6 4-6 (11-9). Secretary General of Tennis Kenya, Wanjiru Mbugua-Karani, was also on hand to put the scale of the victory into context.