The Nigeria Tennis Federation (NTF) has officially released the list of players expected to prosecute the 13th African Games in Accra, Ghana. The much anticipated list which consists majorly of foreign-based players was confirmed to Nigeria Tennis Live by the…
Nigerian players have not participated in any national tournament yet in 2024, but not every one of them knows where they rank on the national ranking. The last one was released in December, 2023, after the Dala Hard Court championship…
The 2023 tennis season served tennis followers in Nigeria with a lot of good moments, but more importantly, moments that brought us to our feet. Both locally and internationally, Nigerian players showed the world the advantages of our population –…
Smarting from their impressive performances at the Dala Hard Tennis Championship in Kano State, Khadijat Mohammed and David John have climbed the national ranking ladder. Khadijat, one of the Wild Card entrants at the recently-concluded event, won the competition for…
David Ekpenyong, Nigeria’s number one male tennis player, has opted out of the Dala Hard Court event scheduled to host in November, 2023. Ekpenyong, still smarting from his first-ever J100 title win in Accra, Ghana, told Nigeria Tennis Live that…
Only two names will clearly appear on your mind when you see this question; Oyinlomo Quadre and Mary-Love Edwards. Yeah, we know. What we also know is that even though these two names are on your mind right now, this…
Like most tournaments across the globe, the DavNotch Senior Open was not without a lot of drama, upsets and intrigues. It surely lived up to its billing as a National Tournament. With players in their second week of a three-week…
There will be a lot of battle at the semis of the ongoing VEMP Open National Tennis Championship in Abuja as some of Nigeria’s young players go neck to neck. In the Men’s final, David Ekpenyong, Nigeria’s highest ranked junior…
Sensational Uche Oparaoji from Imo State is Nigeria’s number ranked player going into the three weeks of national tournaments in Nigeria. Oparaoji who won the Dala and Rainoil national events in the last tennis season, sits atop the national rankings…
Henry Atseye has moved up to fourth on the newly released rankings after winning his second ever Rainoil Tennis Open Championship over the weekend at the Lagos Country Club, Ikeja, Lagos. Atseye emphatically defeated Joseph Imeh in two straight but…