Warriors coach Malibongwe Maketa went to the same school and played in the same provincial team as Makhaya Ntini, but has never really had the chance to go up against him until now. Maketa has been handed the South Africa A coaching duties and will take the team to Zimbabwe, where Ntini is currently the national teams head coach. Maketa admitted he is looking forward to the challenge of facing a former team-mate and another countryman Lance Klusener, who is also working with South Africas neighbours.Theyll have a little bit of a know-how of what we are going to bring in terms of intensity with them being South African. And theyll know the aggression we are going to bring and can prepare accordingly, Maketa said. They could most probably play their Test team so it will give a lot of our guys a lot of confidence to do well.Zimbabwe, who have yet to confirm a head coach after elevating Ntini to the interim role for their India series last month, will use the two matches as preparation for their upcoming Tests against New Zealand. They have not played Test cricket in 19 months, since a tour to Bangladesh in November 2014, and are likely to give their best players and their new permanent coach a dry run before taking on New Zealand.That means South Africa A can expect tough competition as their own side prepares for an 11-Test summer which is certain to test their depth. To ensure they have a large pool of players to choose from, South Africas selectors have sent current Test players and hopefuls on the A trip. Among them are opening batsman Stephen Cook, who will captain the side, recovered quick Vernon Philander, who missed most of last season after tearing ligaments in India, offspinner Dane Piedt, fast bowler Hardus Viljoen who debuted against England last season, and Test discards Stiaan van Zyl and Dane Vilas. Maketa expects all of them to use these matches as auditions for the 2016-17 season.Weve got guys on different journeys: guys who are preparing for Test matches and guys who are trying to get into Test teams, everybody thats here should believe they are the next best to play for their country, he said. Its a great opportunity for them to get the first showing in terms of our summer to say to the selectors we are here and ready to play Test cricket.At the same time, the tour could also be seen as a place for Maketa to show what he is capable of. Although he has only spent one full season in charge of a franchise, and did not win any trophies in his debut summer, Maketa has served as an assistant coach over several more years, with both Warriors and Titans, where he enjoyed success alongside Rob Walter. With pressure mounting on current coach Russell Domingo, its not too far a leap to conclude that Maketa may be being groomed for higher honours in the future.If he is, it is something he would welcome. I would be lying if I said I was not interested in coaching the national team. In whatever career you are at, you want to be the best at it. To coach a national team would be a benchmark for any coach who is out there. I am no different, he said. At the moment its great for me as a coach of a team like this, with guys who seriously want to go somewhere. When youve got cricketers who want to go somewhere, you will always be chasing something special.Maketa will also be in charge of the team when they travel to Australia for two more first-class matches and a quadrangular 50-over tournament and wants to be measured on his results. Its not easy to stamp my own style on the team in such a short time but what I want is having the common goal of performance, he said. We measure everybody on performance. In that way, its much easier for me to measure myself and to measure the team on the journey we are taking.It will not go amiss in South Africa that Ntini can be measured the same way. The countrys third highest Test wicket-taker has never coached at home and, a few weeks ago, lamented the lack of opportunities in an interview with the Sunday Times . Ntini has only enjoyed small success with Zimbabwe. 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Zvonareva, who won the tournament in 2009 and 10, couldnt handle her opponents big groundstrokes in only her third event back after 17 months out with a shoulder injury. Zvonareva made her comeback in January in Shenzhen and played in the Australian Open but lost her first matches at both tournaments. INDIANAPOLIS -- Its been just over three months since 19-year-old American swimmer Lilly King earned international renown for the finger wag heard round the world, and the Indiana University sophomore has some now-it-can-be-told stories about why things went down as controversially as they did at the Rio Olympics. Many of the tales are comical -- even surprising -- but not all of them are fun. Yet King still sees no need to apologize for the debate she created. She still insists she wouldnt change a thing.King said everywhere she goes now, fans still approach her to say: Can we take a picture with you? Can you do the finger wag with us? And Im like: Um, I guess. But I won a gold medal. Can we maybe talk about that?King laughed.Its funny the things you unintentionally come to own and then cant get past, she added.In Kings mind, facets of her 100-meter breaststroke showdown against reigning world champion Yulia Efimova of Russia during the opening two days of the Rio swimming competition were blown out of proportion and misunderstood. She said the public posturing she did, the outward displays of confidence and the pointed remarks aimed at Efimova on the way to what became an emotional final are all part of high-stakes racing.At times, she still wonders what part of that people dont get.I didnt set out to do something to her, I was doing it for me, King said.She also insisted she was definitely not, as some critics suggested, a young first-time Olympian flying off the handle in the heat of the moment in Rio. Rather, King said, she made a cold-eyed assessment of her best chance to win the race months before she even got to Rio, and this was the calculation she made: Though she entered the Olympics with the fastest time in the event this year, the 24-year-old Efimova was the defending world champ, and she had beaten King by nearly three-tenths of a second the last time they raced, in December, a defeat King had been chewing on for months because, It wasnt super close.King ultimately came to believe that if she was going to win this time, training her butt off as usual off might not be enough.In my opinion, said King, [Efimova] is much faster than I am. Im very good at the mental game. I knew I was going to have to play that card in Rio. So I did.I knew that I had to get inside her head.There were other roadblocks for Efimova outside the pool. Efimova and four other Russian swimmers who tested positive for meldonium earlier in the year werent reinstated and cleared to swim in Rio until literally the day before she raced. Many swimming fans at Rios Olympic Aquatics Stadium knew that story, and how Efimova was just a year removed from serving a 16-month ban for a different failed test (that one for DHEA). In Rio, she was booed every time she raced.But King wasnt content to drop it there. She made a point to try to catch Efimovas eye at the warmdown pool, on the pool deck -- anywhere she could. And Efimova kept avoiding her.After posting the fastest time in the first qualifying round, King wagged her index finger in the air to signify she was No. 1. When Efimova mimicked her later that day after winning her evening semifinal, an NBC camera caught King in the ready room, where swimmers wait for her next race, watching Efimovas gesture on TV and wagging no, no back. Then, King went out and won the second semifinal and shook her finger again -- this time for everyone to see.What King didnt know was NBC had a small live camera discreetly placed in the ready room, so she was surprised when she was asked about gesture at the TV in her post-semifinal interview with NBC.I thought, Oh crap. Well its out there now, King said with a laugh.Denying the gestures had been aimed at Efimova was impossible. So King didnt try.You wave your finger No. 1 and youve been caught drug cheating? she told NBCs Michele Tafoya. Im not a fan.Efimova didnt stop to speak with reporters after her semifinal, but King stopped in the mixed zone. She was asked about the NBC interview and defended her remarks and gestures with an answer that became the money quote:Im not this sweet little girl -- thats not who I am, King said. If I do need to stir it up to put a little fire under my butt or anybody else, then thats what Im going to do.The hype was really on after that.The sweet little girl quote was repeated in the media echo chamber in the run-up to the final the next night. In the first 18 hours, Kings Twitter following jumped by more than 10,000. The race became a must-see event.King was both praised and blamed for reviving the Cold War tensions between the United States and Russia. That was kind of silly, she now laughs. I mean, I wasnt even born the first time the Cold War existed, and that was never even remotely my intention.King was cast as the clean sport advocate in a good-versus-evil showdown, and a handful of other swimmers, including Michael Phelps, even seconded her frustration with the system. But while King said she genuinely does have strong opinions about athletes competing again after failed drug tests -- There are so many people in the Olympics that have been caught doping, so many people missing out on medals because of those people, I shouldnt even have to say, Cheating is bad. You shouldnt have to cheat -- once again, King cannot tell a lie. At that precise moment in Rio, her goal was to win the gold medal. Not necessarily sstyle herself as a crusader or make sure Efimova was brought to justice.ddddddddddddOnce King did beat Efimova, she was also cheered as an ultimate competitor who invited pressure by calling out her more decorated rival -- and then dramatically delivered. That part is something King doesnt mind. Her Indiana swimming coach, Ray Looze, said just before they got word in Rio that Efimova was cleared to swim, American star Katie Ledecky came up to him and said, Just so you know, Lilly has been talking all week long about how she hopes they let her into the meet. She wants to race her. Shes excited to race her. Later, Indiana football coach Kevin Wilson remained so impressed he invited King to speak to his team on embracing competitive challenges when she returned to campus this fall.Nobody tells you when you win a gold medal you suddenly become a motivational speaker, King joked. But I do believe Im good under pressure and that I win because Im mentally stronger than the others.After the race, people thought Kings father, Mark, was just being funny when he told Time magazine it was bizarre to think his daughter could actually be a gold medalist because, If you run into someone who says, When I was 8, I was kicking Lilly Kings butt, theyre probably telling you the truth.(Laughing now, Lilly said, I told him, Daaad! Did you really have to put that out there? And he said, What? I was just trying to humanize you!)But the late-bloomer characterization is nothing King doesnt say about herself. And yet, though King truly -- and probably accurately -- thought she had succeeded in crawling inside Efimovas head by their final, she still had to swim the race. Looze said he didnt dare tell King this until afterward, but he confided to Russell Mark, one of USA Swimmings high performance consultants, that he was worried Efimova might go by King in the races last 20 meters. Mark said, You should be. So the two of them hunkered down to hopefully figure something out, again not telling King.Looze said they watched film of Efimova all the way back to 2011. They were looking for something to confirm their hope that Efimova, who has the better finishing kick, could be broken if King took a risk and went out even faster than usual. And we finally saw it had been done, Looze said.When Looze sat King down before her final, he told her he wanted her to swim the first 50 meters in a sizzling 30.2 seconds or so. Her first question was, Then what? I said, Then you gotta go all out and she said, That is going all out. What if I die?I said, You are gonna die. Youre both gonna die. But then its a street fight. And who wins that?King nodded. I can do that, she said.It worked to perfection. Months later, King still believes the way shes been criticized for her gamesmanship against Efimova is a double standard.You see TV showing the Phelps face, or what the guys do in the ready room all the time, how they hang on the lane lines or splash after a race, but just cause Im a girl and I did it, I get a little grief? she asked.Fellow Olympian Cody Miller, who trains with King at Indiana and won a bronze medal in Rio, agrees. He said mind games and talk have been a bigger part of mens swimming than womens swimming for decades, and Kings lust for it just suits Lillys personality. She trains with guys. Shes wicked fast. Theres just a confidence, a swag that some people throw off. And shes got it.Looze went even further than that.Noting how King and Ledecky, a six-time Olympic medalist who is also 19, train with men, study film of mens strokes and how they race, Looze said, Theres a new breed of female athlete. And Lilly is a part of that.Yes, she was called out for practicing bad sportsmanship in Rio for psych jobs that men have done for decades. But one thing about Lilly King, she owns what she does, and Lillys not going care. To her, its part of competition. And if you can beat someone before the race even starts? More power to you.So shes like, Ehhh, call me what you want. Im going to do my thing.Kings sudden fame has led to some funny moments since Rio. She said when she went to vote in the November elections at Indianas football stadium on campus, a poll worker looked at her for a while and finally told her, You know....You look so familiar to me. King replied, Thats probably because youve been looking at that all day -- then pointed to a large photo of herself on the wall among IUs other notable athletes and said, Thats me.Even now, there are certainly people who doubt King really rattled Efimova into losing. They say King just swam faster than the Russian that day.Last month, when King was at a New York banquet to pick up a USA Swimming award for Breakout Performance of the Year, she was asked to look ahead to the next big world meet on the schedule: this past weeks short-course world championships. She said her next goal was to set world records, and she did just that -- helping the womens 200-meter medley relay team break the short-course world record in 1:43.27.King also swam her third-fastest time in the 100-yard breaststroke at the USA-College Challenge, surprising even herself. Efimova withdrew from worlds, ruining any chance for their possible Olympic rematch.Smiling, King said, What do you want me to say? 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