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Top British tennis player serves ace in Hong Kong canteen for deprived elderly
Five Hong Kong Open participants prepare and serve food at Food Angel canteen in Sham Shui Po
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British women’s No 1 Johanna Konta took a break from the tennis court to serve the elderly at a canteen in the deprived district of Sham Shui Po on Wednesday.
After overcoming fellow Briton Naomi Broady to progress to the second round of the Hong Kong Open, Konta visited a canteen run by Food Angel, which takes in surplus food and serves it to the elderly.
Four other Open contestants also took part – Zheng Saisai, Liu Chang, Lu Jiajing and Nao Hibino, who knocked out Samantha Stosur in a shock opening round result.
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Instead of letting supermarkets dump their unsold food in landfills, Food Angel rescues four tons daily and turns it into over 6,000 free hot meals and food packs for the underprivileged.
Konta said she was proud to have contributed to the food-rescue programme “even in a very, very small way”. She added: “It was a wonderful cause to be distributing food that would otherwise be wasted to people who really need it.”
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