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National Tournaments To Look Out For Before End Of 2024

Nigerian tennis players are currently unhappy with the number of national tournaments available for them since the turn of the year. Traditionally, for the past few years, there were five competitions that the players had been open to, even though…

National Tournaments Update: DavNotch, Vemp Open In; CBN OUT!

Nigeria Tennis Live can officially confirm that the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Senior Tennis Open will not hold this year. The CBN Senior Open which has been consistently held for 45 previous times, has been confirmed to be on…

Nigeria Tennis Ranking 2023: Oparaoji, Marylove Top Men, Women Rankings

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…

Players To Watch Out For Ahead Of CBN Open Serve Off

Tennis followers in Nigeria will be shifting their focus, this week, to Abuja where the 42nd edition of the annual Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Open will serve off. The competition which has produced great players who have done great…

CBN Open: Check Out Top 10 Nigerian Tennis Players

The top ten Nigerian tennis players are the moment will be expectedly given a run for their money as the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Open holds in a week’s time. Since the last competition of the last tennis season,…

Where Is Sarah Adegoke?

On that hot afternoon sometime around May, 2012, inside court two of the tennis section at the National Stadium, Surulere, Lagos, there was a serious uproar. Tennis fans and spectators could not believe what was happening. A teenager was holding…

NTF Assures Nigerian Tennis Players Of Two New National Tournaments In 2020

Engr. Ifedayo Akindoju, the President of the Nigeria Tennis Federation (NTF), has assured Nigerian tennis players that the federation is planning two additional tournaments to the tennis season. The NTF President who made this confirmation during a brief phone discussion…

I’d Rather Have More National Tournaments Than ITF World Tour Events In Nigeria – Sylvester

Sylvester Emmanuel, Nigeria’s undisputed number one male player, has spoken glowingly about how much progress he made in the year 2019, especially one in which he won three out of the four national titles available. In an exclusive interview with…

CBN Open: Fireworks In Abuja As Babalola Battles Sylvester For Men’s Singles Title

Abdulmumin Babalola will be seeking to break the ‘recent jinx’ of reaching a CBN Open final without winning it when he comes up against Sylvester Emmanuel at the men’s singles event later today. Monaco, as the legendary tennis player is…

CBN Open: ‘Everybody Is Now Scared Of Oyinlomo’

After repeatedly defeating top players with unprecedented score lines, it appears as if every female player at the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Senior Open Tennis Championship is now wary of Oyinlomo Quadre. For three consecutive matches now, Quadre has…