Tag Archives: African Games

The disappointment of tennis followers and observers in the outgoing year is one which many find pretty difficult to wrap their minds around. Especially looking at how they happened. Prior to the commencement of the tennis season, expectations had been ...

Oiza Yakubu, Abayomi Philips, Emmanuel Jebutu and Joshua Aji, four Nigerian tennis starlets are competing in the girl’s singles category and the boy’s singles event respectively. No fewer than four Nigerian tennis youngsters are competing at the ITF/CAT Circuit Junior ...

Team Nigerian had an amazing run at the recently concluded African Games in Rabat, Morocco, where the tennis contingent returned with two bronze medals from the team and doubles events. Nigeria Tennis Live had followed up with the action from ...

Engr. Ifedayo Akindoju, President of the Nigeria Tennis Federation (NTF) has expressed his excitement at youngster, Oyinlomo Quadre’s impressive run at the ongoing African Games in Rabat, Morocco. Quadre, ranked 177 in the world junior tennis, has been Nigeria’s best ...

Oyinlomo Quadre was Nigeria’s brightest star at the ongoing African Games in Morocco, as she put up an outstanding performance to defeat Kenya’s Judith Muraa in two straight sets. The Nigerian number three youngster wasted no time in outsmarting the ...

Nigeria’s number one and two male players, Sylvester Emmanuel and Joseph Imeh justified their national rankings during their doubles match at the ongoing African Games in Rabat, Morocco. Even though Imeh retired in the second set of his singles match ...

The Nigerian tennis team to the ongoing African Games in Rabat, Morocco, have proven to be too tough for their opponents as the results trickling in have proven. After wins by Sylvester Emmanuel and Emmanuel Sunday, other players have justified ...

Nigeria’s number one male tennis player, Sylvester Emmanuel, started his 2019 African Games campaign on a good note even though he had to bounce back from a first set loss to defeat his Malian opponent. The young man popularly called ...

The Nigerian contingent (as at the time of compiling this report), had only won three medals at the ongoing Africa Games in Morocco, even though other (relatively smaller) countries could already boast of more. In fact, as at Wednesday evening, ...