Coming Full Circle: Giving Back
Junior Hakizumwami is spending this week volunteering with young players back home in Rwanda, and passing on the experience the Love All Scholarship gave him.
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Davis Cup: Fifth Place, Lessons Learned
Junior Hakizumwami’s newest Tuesdays with Junior update opens with a scoreboard, not a highlight reel. Team Rwanda competed at Davis Cup this week against eleven other national teams, and finished fifth. “Out of 12 teams, we got the fifth place,…
Building Chemistry Before the Home Tournament
Junior Hakizumwami is back home in Rwanda, reconnecting with friends and building chemistry — and gearing up for a tournament on his home turf next week.
Forehand, Serve & Finding My People
The real headline this week isn't on any court. “I didn't know how much I missed my friends,” Junior admitted, and there's something honest in that sentence, the kind of thing that only surfaces once you've actually gotten it back. “It's really exciting how I'm getting connected with them. It's amazing.”
8 to 4, Playing for Rwanda
Junior is home. After months at the Mouratoglou Academy in Biot, France, and his graduation in June, Junior Hakizumwami is back in Rwanda. And the first thing on his mind? The food he hasn't eaten in so long. The places he missed. That feeling of being exactly where you came from. It's grounding in a way that no amount of progress on the court can replace.
Back Home, and Playing for Rwanda
After months of grinding through the French clay season, navigating exams, and graduating from one of the world's elite tennis academies, Junior is exactly where he's supposed to be — back in the arms of his community, and stepping onto the national stage as its representative.
Graduation Day & the Road Ahead
This week, Junior Hakizumwami graduated from the Mouratoglou Academy in Biot, France. He walked across that stage as a Love All Scholar, a trained athlete, and a young man who spent a full year proving that the bridge between possibility and reality can be built — deliberately, brick by brick — when the right infrastructure exists.
Exams Done. Junior Is Graduating.
Tuesdays with Junior | Ep 23 | June 9, 2026 Two Words. A Year in the Making. There is a moment when all the early mornings, the late-night study sessions, and the relentless pressure of balancing elite athletic training with…
Paris, Roland-Garros & the Exams Ahead
Tuesdays with Junior | Ep 22 | June 2, 2026 From the Academy to the City of Light This week, Junior Hakizumwami stepped away from training at the Mouratoglou Academy and made his way to Paris. Not just to visit.…
4th Round, Exam Week & the Last Days at the Academy
Tuesdays with Junior | Ep 21 | May 26, 2026 There’s a particular kind of clarity that arrives at the end of something that mattered. This week, Junior Hakizumwami played his last tournament of the season at the Mouratoglou Academy…