Okutoyi named January SJAK Sports Personality of the month

Rising Tennis Star Angela Okutoyi has won the January SJAK sports personality of the month.

Okutoyi, 18, became the first Kenyan girl to win a match in the Australian Junior Open Championship and the first to go past the second round at a Grand Slam tournament.

For winning the monthly award Okutoyi took home an LG Artificially Intelligent washing machine.

 “January was such a good month for Kenyan Tennis and myself after I won a match at the Australian Grand Slam. We have come from far and I am proud to have lifted the Kenyan flag high,” said Okutoyi through a recorded video from Morocco.

Rising tennis star Okutoyi scooped the award after beating three other nominees in Daniel Simiyu, who won the Valencia 10k, Shujaa’s Vincent Onyala and middle-distance runner Norah Jeruto.