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March 31, 2026
This Month: The First Tests

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March is when Junior’s story stopped being about adjustment and started being about competition.

On March 3, he picked up his first tournament win since arriving at the Academy, the kind of result that turns “I’m training hard” into “it’s working.” A week later, he was adjusting to clay courts for the first time all season, a genuinely different surface with a different rhythm and a different kind of patience required. By March 24, he’d picked up two more wins on that same clay.

“It gave me the opportunity to live my dreams, to become a professional tennis player. So I’m really grateful for this.”

Junior Hakizumwami, Love All Scholar, from a produced short

That’s the throughline of the whole month. The Love All Scholarship didn’t just move Junior to a new address. It put him in front of real competition, on the same path that had him at the Rwanda Open M25 as a wild card back in 2023. March is where that path started producing results again.

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