The Amazons Tennis Tournament was held for the first time ever on Saturday, 8 March, 2025, to celebrate the International Women’s Day.
Apart from being a tennis event, it was a celebration of women, and what they stand for. Their beauty, strength and immense abilities, and these, the women who attended the one-day event put on display.
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Not often do you see a gathering of women in tennis with the large turnout as what was experienced inside the Lagos Lawn Tennis Club, Onikan, Lagos over the weekend.
For a first-of-its-kind event, about 100 women were in attendance to witness what was a historical event and Nwajiagah Omeruo made sure to end the day as the last Amazon standing.
Prior to the commencement of the event, over 70 ladies from about 23 clubs in Lagos State registered to participate in the event, and the turnout was as massive.
Omeruo, popularly called NJ, was the tournament’s number one seed, and had to come from behind in her opening match, to defeat her opponent, and go all the way to the final.
In the finale of the competition, she was up against a formidable opponent in Omotayo Ibrahim-Osewa, a former Nigerian number one female tennis player and the 2001 winner of the Women’s Singles title at the CBN Open.
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The top seed won the first set 4-2 but the woman fondly called Sabatini within the tennis circle in Nigeria had already started gaining momentum before the end of the first set and rightly won the second 4-1 to loud cheers from the Lagos Lawn Tennis Club.
It was NJ who would later have the last laugh, and take home the giant winner’s trophy alongside a cash prize of N200,000.
There was also an exhibition match for the men who wore wigs to show their support for the women-themed Amazons Tennis event, and the exciting spectators at the Lagos Lawn Tennis Club could not have enough of them.
The Convener of the event, Punjah, told Nigeria Tennis Live, after the competition, that she was first scared when she had idea.
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She stated, however, that “I am happy it has come to stay. Next year will be even bigger because this year’s edition has shown that we can have something really big”.
Nigeria Tennis Live will keep tabs on developments ahead of the next edition which promises to be more exciting.