Okutoyi through to Doubles quarterfinals in Canada

Kenya’s 18-year-old tennis sensation Angella Okutoyi has successfully advanced to the quarterfinals of the Girls Doubles category in the J1 Repentigny tournament currently taking place in Canada.

Alongside her Polish partner Mawina Rowinska, the duo dispatched Canadian pair Eliana Kook and Anna-Raphaelle Serghi in an impressive 6-4, 6-2 straight set performance that ensured they progressed to the last eight of the tournament.

Both Okutoyi/ Rowinska, who are the sixth seed in the Doubles category, and Kook/Seghi had gotten a bye in the first round to set up their clash in the second round.

Following the victory, Okutoyi and Rowinska will face the winner of the second round match pitting top seeded Slovakians Irina Balus and Nikola Daubnerova against Yujin Kim (South Korea) and Honoka Umeda (Japan).

Okutoyi is also taking part in the singles category of the tournament, where she is the 12th seed, and will face unseeded Ela Nala Milic in the second round after being given a bye in the first round as Milic defeated Canada’s Dylan Gelber 6-0, 6-1 in their first round tie.

Back in July 2022, Okutoyi went down the history books when she lifted the Wimbledon Girls' Doubles title to become the first ever Kenyan player to win in any Grand Slam Tournament alongside Netherlands’ Rose Marie Nijkamp.

After the tournament in Canada, Okutoyi will be making her fourth and last Junior Grand Slam appearance when she competes at the US Open Junior Championship taking place from 4-11 September.

In playing at the US Open, the Kenyan youngster will have featured at junior levels of all major tennis tournaments. She played at the Australian Open where she became the first Kenyan woman to play at the tournament and to win a Grand Slam match before crashing out in the third round.

She followed that with appearances at Roland Garros (R2) and Wimbledon where she atoned for her Round 1 exit in singles with a title in Doubles alongside her Dutch partner Rose Marie Nijkamp.

Angella Okutoyi – Tennis barrier breaker who rose from a children's orphanage to the Grand Slam