AN EIGHT-MEMBER Rwanda junior tennis team, led by rising youngster Ernest Habiyambere, is set to depart for Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania on Thursday ahead of this year’s ITF/CAT East African U-16 Junior Championships that runs from January 11 to 18.Fourteen-year old Habiyambere is expected to arrive in Kigali today from Morocco where he has been training at the International Tennis Federation High Performance Center over the last seven months."The team was initially supposed to go tomorrow (Wednesday) but because of delays in finalising all travel requirements, departure was moved to Thursday,” local tennis governing body technical director Fidele Kamanzi said on Tuesday.The team will be comprised of eight players, five boys and three girls competing in the under-12, under-14 and under-16 categories. Ernest Habiyambere and David Uwimana make up the boys’ under-16 team, while Olive Tuyisenge alongside Alliete Mutesi will compete in the girls’ under-16 category.Bryan Ndahiro and Fabrice Tuyishime make the boys under-14 team; Chantal Mutuyimana will compete in the girls under-14 category, while the 11-year old Bertin Karenzi, will represent the country in boys under-12 competitions.