Tag Archives: National Tournaments

Players have heaved a sign of relief after the organizers of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Senior Tennis Open Championships finally paid their prize monies. There had been uproar after the organizers refused to pay the players their prize ...

Nigeria-born Ghanaian player, Isaac Attah, has never gone past the quarterfinal stage of any national competition even though he’s been playing the sport for about ten years, but he’s not giving up on his dreams. The young man was a ...

Is it too early to talk about Nigeria’s participation at the 2022 version of the Davis Cup? Maybe not. Out of the four editions of the Rainoil Tennis Open Championship – three on clay, one on hard court, Henry Atseye ...

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 ...

Oyinlomo Quadre and Oiza Yakubu will go neck to neck to secure a place in the semifinal of the ongoing Rainoil Tennis Open Championship. The pair who happen to be two of Nigeria’s finest young female tennis players will be ...

Oiza and Nene Yakubu have proven that their recent trips across different parts of the country and the African continent have not gone to waste. Both sisters are presently playing at the ongoing Rainoil Tennis Open Championship in Lagos and ...

Nigeria’s number one female tennis player, Marylove Edwards will Wednesday come up against Angel McCleod in her second round match at the ongoing Rainoil Tennis Open Championship in Lagos. The match which promises to be a cracker will be between ...

Clifford Enosoregbe and Abayomi Philips were the biggest casualties from the day one of the ongoing Rainoil Tennis Open Championship in Lagos. The pair lost their matches to seemingly inexperienced players whom many did not expect to have won against ...

Former Nigerian number one female tennis player, Oyinlomo Quadre, has returned to the national tennis circuit after being away for a few months, and has vowed to win the Rainoil Tennis Open Championship. The 18-year-old teenager who spoke with Nigeria ...

In 2019, Oyinlomo Quadre became the first Nigerian player to complete the Nigeria Slam after winning all the national tournaments in the country which she participated in. That feat has not been repeated by any Nigerian player ever since, but ...