Tag Archives: Tennis in Nigeria

Players have lamented their inability to enter for the Dala Hard Court tournament in Dala, Kano, following their arrival in the city after traveling by road for about three days. The players who aired their grievances to Nigeria Tennis Live ...

Her unassuming stature definitely doesn’t do justice to how much power her racket carries. But Rose Nana, a seven-year-old tennis prodigy knows what she wants and is ready to go for it. When her father wanted her to get on ...

Rose Onoja Abu is not an unfamiliar name with tennis followers, players, officials and coaches in Nigeria. But what people may be unfamiliar with is that she’s a ‘coat of many colours’. By profession, Mrs. Abu works with the Nigeria ...

Seyi and Seun Ogunshakin were the major focus of spectators as the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Junior Tennis Championship ended in Lagos on Saturday, 27 March, 2021. The boys from Ekiti confirmed that their performances over the years have ...

Lagos-based Gabriel Inyang proved to be a handful for his opponent at the opening match in the qualifying round of the ongoing Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Open. The youngster was a thorn in the flesh of his opponent, Sodiq ...

While other tennis players were busy waiting to get their first rackets before competing, Sadiq Tswako took the bull by the horn, sneaked out to play tennis, and won his first prize money with a squash racket. His mother would ...

Nigeria’s number one female tennis player, Oyinlomo Quadre, believes that male players are generally nicer than their female counterparts. In an exclusive interview with Nigeria Tennis Live, the 2019 ‘Nigeria Slam’ winner stated that it is a general phenomenon all ...

In a battle of wits, skills and mental toughness at the final of the Boys 12 event at the AZIMUTH Shipping Lines Limited Junior Tennis Championship on Saturday, 25 January, Nigeria’s Elisha Kwange came out tops against India’s Satyam Maurya ...

Ekiti State is one of the states of the federation where youngsters are working really hard, and are deservedly gaining national prominence. Presently, they are being tutored by the relentless Akinwumi Ogunshakin, a cool, calm and collected young man whose ...

Nigeria’s duo of Abayomi Phillips, and Emmanuel Jebutu, who are touring Europe to play junior ITF tournaments in Norway, Denmark, Sweden, have pledged to return to the country with the titles. Nigeria Tennis Live reports that the youngsters alongside Toyin ...