Interviewing Kenya Team Olivier Kigotho
14 year old Olivier Kigotho has made the national team, barely one year after joining Sadili Talent Training Academy in Langata, Nairobi. Olivier will be representing Kenya at the ITF/CAT U14 Circuit in Burundi and Rwanda from the 6th - 17th August 2012. I caught up with Olivier at Sadili as he stepped off the court following a tough evening training session. For a boy so young, he exuded quiet confidence and smiled a lot, so I was able to plunge quickly into my interview: J - Why did you switch from playing basketball to playing tennis competitively? O – Well I had initially played tennis and then started playing basketball because it was closer to home, while I was in school in the USA. Then when I came back to Kenya, I started playing tennis again, because I liked it better. J - How does it feel to be playing for the national team? O – It feels really good, like my hard work is playing off. J - When you started playing tennis again was it your goal to be on the National Team? O - No...