Rwanda primary Etienne Niyigena and Carine Nishimwe emerged victorious within the males’s and ladies’s singles classes of the 2026 Genocide Memorial Tennis Event, which concluded on Saturday on the IPRC-Kigali Ecology Tennis Court docket.
Organised yearly by the Rwanda Tennis Federation, the match serves as a tribute to tennis gamers and officers who misplaced their lives throughout the 1994 Genocide in opposition to the Tutsi.
The week-long competitors featured skilled males’s and ladies’s singles, wheelchair singles, newbie singles, and doubles occasions.
Within the males’s skilled singles ultimate, Niyigena defeated David Manzi Rwamucyo 7-6(5), 6-4 to say the title. Nishimwe was equally dominant within the girls’s ultimate, cruising previous Rano Tuyishime 6-0, 6-1.
Within the newbie males’s singles class, Ratun Matjaz overcame Harmless Rukundo 6-4, 2-6, 6-3, whereas Zawadi Umuhoza defeated Gloria Umutoni 6-2, 6-3 to safe the ladies’s title.
The boys’s doubles crown went to Antony Hanchez and Sean Buckley, who edged Livingstone Mugisha and Juvens Hakorimana 6-4, 2-6, 10-6 in a intently contested ultimate.
Within the senior newbie males’s doubles class, Harmless Gashugi and Elson Mucyurabuhoro had been topped champions. Jean Baptiste Mutabazi and Caripophore Ntagungira completed runners-up, whereas Augustin Gatera and Alphonse Katarebe claimed third place.
Within the wheelchair skilled competitors, Yvonne Imaniragena secured the ladies’s singles title with a commanding 6-1, 6-0 victory over Religion Mutesi. Within the males’s division, Emmanuel Hakizimana defeated Ernest Ndayishimiye 6-1, 6-1 to raise the championship trophy.
