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Silver and bronze as Africa Beach Games ends

Kenya concluded the second edition of Africa Beach Games in style, winning two medals in Hammamet, Tunisia.

The first medal was won by women’s 3×3 basketball then followed by women’s tennis doubles team.

On Thursday afternoon, the duo of Faith Urasa and Shufaa Ruwa Changawa won bronze in tennis doubles before the women’s basketball winning silver in the evening to tally Kenya’s medals to five, an improvement of the first edition of the Games in 2019 when the country won three.

In the women’s 3×3, the Kenyan team was edged out by fine margins by Mali, losing 18-10 after putting up a stellar fight with a good display at the finals for silver.

In the tennis doubles,  Urasa and Changawa clinched bronze in the girls’ doubles category after edging out home pair of Manel Loudhabachi and Sarah Louati by straight sets of 6-4, 6-2 to bag a medal for Team Kenya.

The Kenyan girls dropped to the bronze medal match after losing 2-1 (6-3, 3-6, 10-8) to the duo of Sophie Catherine Alleaume and Marie Claude Francoise Mauritius on Thursday.

They had won against Morocco’s Safaa Bahmann and Inas Ziki 2-1, coming from a set down. The Kenyan girls closed the game in scores of 6-4, 6-3 having lost the first set 6-3.

The doubles team of Shangawa and Faiz

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