The organizers of the Tiger Tennis Foundation Youth/Junior Championship have set a deadline for registration/sign-in for the week-long event.
Nigeria Tennis Live gathered that the competition, scheduled to start on Monday, 30 October, 2023, will have players feature in five different categories.
The competition which will hold inside the National Stadium, Surulere, Lagos, starts with the signing-in on Monday, 30 October while competition will serve off on Tuesday, 31 October, 2023.
Coach Paul Moses, the tournament’s facilitator, noted that the categories include Red Balls, 10, 12, 14 and Youth for boys and girls.
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Nigerian players are already looking forward to the junior competition which our correspondent gathered, is an invitational tournament.
“Only players invited for this tournament will be participating, that’s the plan for the competition,” the man fondly called MP Tiger told Nigeria Tennis Live.
Abubakar Yusuf, winner of the recently-concluded UTR competition inside the Lagos Lawn Tennis Club, Onikan, Lagos, noted that he is fully ready for the tournament after the win.
“After this UTR, I will be playing the MP Tiger tournament here in Lagos, and I cannot wait for that tournament to start,” he told journalists after his defeat of Basit Ajao on Saturday, 28 October, 2023.
The week-long event which will start and hold throughout the week inside the tennis section of the National Stadium, Surulere, Lagos, will be ending inside the Lagos Country Club on Sunday, 4 November, 2023.