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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Many tennis enthusiasts in the country are quite aware of the ongoing Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Senior Tennis Open, and are getting the updates too. But not many can boast of the breakdown of the prize money. The 41st…
Youngsters Oiza Yakubu, Iye Onoja and Oyinlomo Quadre are among the top junior players who got the wild cards to compete in the main draw of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Senior Open tennis which will kick off on…