Success Ogunjobi has broken into the top 600 of world junior rankings after her impressive run at the just concluded J30 Abuja event where she won two titles.
The youngster had been Nigeria’s second highest ranked player on the Junior ITF rankings for a while before she went on a winning streak at the J30 Abuja, surviving all odds to win both titles.
In the newly released rankings by the International Tennis Federation on Monday, the teenage sensation leapfrogged Ohunene Yakubu, the erstwhile Nigerian top junior on the ITF rankings, and is now miles ahead of other Nigerian players.
Nigeria Tennis Live checks on the website showed that not only did Ogunjobi jump to the peak of the rankings for Nigerian players sitting as 596, Yakubu plummeted badly and is not within the top 1000 in world junior rankings.
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Goodnews Aina, another youngster who had a good run at the J30 Abuja championship, moved 33 places (now ranked 1460) to now sit in the top four of the Nigerian players on the ITF rankings.
In the male category, Lucky Danjuma will be ending his last year as a junior player in the top 400 of the world junior tennis players, after his recent successes.
Danjuma has been one of the best junior players across the country and justified that when he won both legs of the J30 Abuja tournament last weekend.
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He is now ranked 390 in the world, a ranking spot that puts him just three spots behind Franklin Jimoh and about 100 away from Prosperity Okonkwo, the number three ranked Nigerian on the ITF ratings.
The Abuja-based youngster will be looking forward to metamorphosing into the seniors by 2026, as he will be 19 by then and would have gone past the eligibility age to participate in junior tournaments.
Apart from Danjuma, only Oluwaseun Ogunsakin, the highest-rated Nigerian on the junior ITF rankings, moved two spots upwards on the rankings, to now occupy the 214 spot in the world.