Busy Summer Ahead For Saint Lucia Tennis

By Terry Finisterre Saint Lucia’s tennis players of various ages will be heavily engaged in the coming months with local and international competition. The Saint Lucia Tennis Association on Thursday launched its 2024 Summer Camp and named teams for youth and senior competition.  SLTA 1st Vice President, Mr. Digby Ambris announced that Saint Lucia would be returning to Davis Cup play, after a lengthy absence. Saint Lucia last played in the premier international competition for men’s tennis in 2006, but this year a team will travel to Tacarigua, Trinidad & Tobago, to take on Aruba, Antigua & Barbuda, Cuba, Nicaragua, Haiti, Trinidad & Tobago, Honduras, and US Virgin Islands in Americas Group IV.  There will be one pool of four teams and one pool of five teams. Two teams will be promoted. The promotion play-offs will be as follows: A1 v B2 and B1 v A2. Nations finishing third and fourth in the pools will compete in positional play-offs. The nation finishing fifth in Pool B will finish 9th overall.  Vernon Lewis first played on the senior men’s team more than four decades ago. Now aged 59, the International Tennis Federation Hall of Famer, and recipient of the Davis Cup...