Nigeria Tennis Live can authoritatively report that the ongoing AZIMUTH Shipping Lines Limited Junior Tennis Competition in Lagos has recorded the highest number of attendees at a junior tournament in Nigeria. The national junior tennis open tournament which is presently…
Nigerian tennis players have openly condemned the activities of the Nigeria Tennis Federation (NTF) especially since they are being deprived of tournaments for lengthy periods of the year. Nigeria Tennis Live had reported that the NTF was planning two new…
The Nigeria Tennis Federation (NTF) like in the last two years, is planning to hold an awards/gala night event scheduled for May, 2020. Nigeria Tennis Live can report that this event has been in the federation’s calendar of activities for…
The next in line among our Nigerian tennis coaches is the rugged Coach Lukmon Ajibose, an amazing grassroots development trainer. In this episode of the Know Your Coach series, we share with our readers, some unknown secrets about this humble…
Novak Djokovic is the world’s number 2 ranked player at the moment, but only 17 years ago, Nigeria’s Shehu Lawal was ranked just nine places below him in the world juniors. As at this time, the 34-year-old Lawal was at…
Nigerian teenage tennis prodigy, Oyinlomo Quadre, is storming Tunisia for the Grade 2 ITF Junior tournament as she begins her 2020 tennis season. The world’s top 200 player who ended year 2019 on a high, was arguably Nigeria’s biggest star…
Youngsters Abayomi Phillips and Emmanuel Jebutu may soon be on their way out of Nigeria for a tour of Europe for about a month or more. The junior players who are 321 & 695 players in the world junior rankings…
There are strong indications that the Nigeria Tennis Federation (NTF) may be hosting a Challenger series in year 2021. For a few years, the federation had been mooting the idea of having a Challenger series in the country to boost…
Nigeria’s number four ranked wheelchair tennis player, Williams Ukari, has lamented over the absence of national tournaments for players with special abilities, revealing that it has led some of them to begging at night. Ukari who won bronze at the…
Coach Akinwunmi Ogunshakin, the Ekiti State junior tennis coach, has revealed his plans to ensure that his team comes out tops in all their engagements for the new year. Ogunshakin who has only recently returned from the AJC qualifying series…