Bloemfontein se pluimbalkampioen het gisteraand \u2019n tweede keer in haar loopbaan die enkelspeltitel in die vroue-afdeling op die Afrika-spele verower.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Nita Scholtz-Albertse het met \u2019n reuse-terugvegpoging die eindstryd gehaal in di\u00e9 spele in Accra, Ghana, waar sportlui in verskillende sportsoorte meeding om die topplekke in Afrika en \u2019n kans om in die Olimpiese Spele mee te ding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Die spele het op Vrydag 8 Maart amptelik begin, maar die pluimbalspelers het dit van Donderdag tot Sondag om plekke in di\u00e9 sportsoort uitgespook.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Die Afrika-spele word slegs een keer elke vier jaar aangebied.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As 19-jarige speler op die Afrika-spele in 2019, in Marokko, het Scholtz-Albertse haar eerste groot internasionale titel verower.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Weens verskeie redes is die spele nie in 2023 aangebied nie, en na 2024 geskuif \u2013 wat die invloed daarvan verhoog het, want die Olimpiese kwalifiseringstydperk eindig op 28 April. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Johan Kleingeld, een van Scholtz-Albertse se plaaslike afrigters, s\u00ea dit was \u2019n groot oomblik wat baie innerlike krag van haar geverg het toe sy Husina Kobogabe van Uganda in die eindstryd gepak het.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sy het die toernooi goed begin en spelers van Uganda, Ghana en Benin uit die pad gevee sonder om \u2019n stel af te staan. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
In die halfeindstryd het Fadilah Rafi van Uganda op haar gewag. Rafi was nog voor Scholtz-Albertse op die kwalifiseringspuntelys en die wedstryd was van kardinale belang, want die wenner sou nie net die voortou neem op die puntelys nie; die verloorder sou vir alle praktiese doeleindes uitgeskakel word wat die kwalifiseringswedloop betref. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Scholtz-Albertse was eenvoudig te goed vir Rafi en het met 21-15, 21-10 gese\u00ebvier. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Kobogabe het in haar aanloop verrassing n\u00e1 verrassing gelewer en deur die loting gekom. In die proses het sy twee vorige Olimpiese spelers uitgestof om die eindstryd in die vroue-enkelspel te haal. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Kobogabe het eers in die kwart-eindstryd vir Kate Ludik van Mauritius geklop, in drie stelle, en toe in die halfeindstryd vir Dorcas Adesokan van Nigeri\u00eb in twee gemaklike stelle. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Kleingeld s\u00ea die eindstryd was van ho\u00eb gehalte en nie een speler kon oorheers nie, maar Kobogabe het baie beter gespeel as wat sy vantevore het en het in die finale stel \u2019n voorsprong opgebou van 19-14. Sy was slegs twee punte weg van die Afrika-titel en op pad om Scholtz-Albertse se drome aan skerwe te laat spat. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Di\u00e9 het eenvoudig die stang stywer vasgebyt en geweier om die stryd gewonne te gee. Sy het van 14-19 teruggeveg en die volgende 7 punte in \u2019n ry gewen om die Afrika-titel met 16-21, 21-17, 21-19 te verower.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Met die titel is sy nie slegs die enigste Suid-Afrikaanse vrou wat in die Afrika-spele se enkelspel kon se\u00ebvier nie; naas Grace Daniel van Nigeri\u00eb (2003 en 2007) is sy ook die enigste speler in die vroue-enkelspel wat dit twee keer kon wen. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Om seker te maak dat sy vir die Olimpiese Spele kwalifiseer, wag daar op Scholtz-Albertse nog twee toernooie: in Pole en Kazakstan, onderskeidelik in Maart en April.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Scholtz-Albertse het ook \u2019n bronsmedalje in die gemengde dubbelspel saam met Caden Kakora gewen. Kakora is ook \u2019n enkelspel-spesialis en het in die kwarteindstryd verloor om \u2019n bronsmedalje te wen. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Die enigste ander medalje wat Suid-Afrika in pluimbal op di\u00e9 spele kon wen, was di\u00e9 van nog \u2019n Bloemfonteiner, Robert Summers, wat saam met sy dubbelspelmaat Jarred Elliot van Gauteng brons in die mans-dubbelspel kon verower. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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