{"id":143516,"date":"2026-06-09T17:03:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T17:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/kenya-names-formidable-team-ahead-of-davis-cup-tourney\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T17:03:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T17:03:11","slug":"kenya-names-formidable-team-ahead-of-davis-cup-tourney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/kenya-names-formidable-team-ahead-of-davis-cup-tourney\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya names formidable team ahead of Davis Cup tourney"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Tennis Kenya has officially unveiled a 7-player squad that will represent the country in the 2026 Davis Cup Africa Group 4 tournament, which will be held from Wednesday next week\u00a0to the 20th\u00a0of this month at the\u00a0 Nairobi club.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The team\u00a0 which will be captained by Veteran Coach by Rosemary Owino, is comprised of young and experienced players, all stemming from the junior tennis initiative and other ongoing projects.<\/p>\n<p>They include among others, the experienced Ismael Changawa who will be the player captain, top-rated Kael Shah ,rising junior star Jeff Okuku who will make his debut alongside Aum Chandarana and Liberty Kibuye, while\u00a0 Raymond Oduir\u00a0 and Zayyan Virani complete the list\u00a0.<\/p>\n<p>The President of Tennis Kenya Wanjiru-Mbugua Karani threw her weight behind the team, while also calling upon Kenyans to show up and support the team..<\/p>\n\n<p>The unveiling was also graced by the Vice president of the National Olympic Committee of Kenya , Colonel Nashon Randiek, who assured them of the continuous support.<\/p>\n<p>The Davis Cup, which is a prestigious international men\u2019s tennis competition commonly known as the World Cup of Tennis, will be returning to Kenya for the first time since 2019, with the national team now aiming to capitalize on home advantage and secure promotion to Africa Group III.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kbc.co.ke\/kenya-names-formidable-team-ahead-of-davis-cup-tourney\/\">Kenya names formidable team ahead of Davis Cup tourney<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kbc.co.ke\/\">KBC Digital<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tennis Kenya has officially unveiled a 7-player squad that will represent the country in the 2026 Davis Cup Africa Group 4 tournament, which will be held from Wednesday next week\u00a0to the 20th\u00a0of this month at the\u00a0 Nairobi club.\u00a0 The team\u00a0 which will be captained by Veteran Coach by Rosemary Owino, is comprised of young and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143516\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}