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As part of commemorating individuals that have stipulated an indelible mark in the history of sports in Ghana, particularly in tennis, www.tenolfsports.com has initiated a project that enable the current generation to know more of personalities who have remarkable achieved on the tennis court.
The project is partnered by CAB Holdings Ltd, Ghana Tennis Federation and Baboo Sports, the official representative of Babalot in Ghana.
Today our lense fall on Mrs. Victoria Dowuona Palomeras, a former national Champion.
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Born on July 16, 1958, Mrs. Palomeras attended St. Barnabas Anglican School, Osu and Cooke County College Texas, USA.
She had the passion to play tennis in 1974 by the immaculate Tennis Attire, which in those days was mostly white in colour.
Her first ever tennis trainer was Mr Nortey Dowuona who taught her for a period of three (3) months. Coach Anthony Dove was however the coach under whose tutelage she spent a lot of time as a Tennis Player.
As there were few female players during her time, most of her training sessions also involved playing with the Boys/Men Tennis Players and this really helped her in building self confidence and improved her tennis skills.
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In 1975, she became the number one Seed and National Champion barely 6 months after learning how to play Tennis.
She won several ANNUAL TENNIS TOURNAMENTS organised by Various Corporate Bodies, such as DANAFCO, NESTLE(sponsors for the MILO Tournament), FAN MILK, ACCRA BREWERY (Sponsors of BUBRA Tournament, AFKO & WANG ( Both South Korean Companies) and ALITALIA AIRLINE.
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Mrs. Dowuona Palomeras won gold medals in 1975 and 1976 both in the Ghana national sports festival and clinched gold for Ghana in the 1977 Ecowas Tennis Championship held in Lagos of Nigeria.
She had nicknames likes Golden Girl and Pride of Graphic (as she was then working with the Graphic Corporation) when she defeated Norah Ngoze to win the championship.
She played at Wimbledon in the Ladies Competition in 1977.
She also won two silver medals in the Ladies singles and mixed doubles during the 1975 Ghana/Nigeria Sports Festival.
The flamboyant Palomeras represented Ghana in several international tournaments against Nigeria, Togo, Kenya, Sudan, Libya, Senegal, Cote D’ivoire and Algeria from 1975 to 2000.
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In 1995, she was the Coach attached to the Ghana Ladies team that played in Egypt in African Tennis Competition.
From January 2019 to-date, she joined the PMSPORTS Foundation to train young girls (aged between 8 and 10years) in ten Basic Schools in Accra as part of her Social Responsibility to help in the development of Ladies’ Tennis and to raise future world champions.
