ITF/CAT AJC Qualifiers: Nigeria’s Marylove, Oiza, Mubarak Target Semis Slot In Togo
Reports emanating from Lomé, Togo, confirm that about five Nigerian players are targeting a semifinal slot at the ongoing ITF/CAT West & Central African Junior Championships Qualifiers. According to Coach Abel Ubiebi, the coordinator of the team to Togo, the…
Azimuth Shipping Lines Junior Championship Sponsor Makes New Promises About Forthcoming Tourney
Sponsor of the AZIMUTH Shipping Lines Junior Tennis Championship, Captain Owolabi Martins, has promised a better organization of this year’s tournament The competition which rewards excellent performances of the youngsters with education grants among other exotic prizes, is in its…
ITF/CAT AJC Qualifiers: Nigerian Youngsters Excited To Represent Nigeria
Feelers from the Nigerian camp in Lome, Togo, have it that the youngsters are buzzing to represent the nation at the ongoing ITF/CAT West & Central African Junior Championships in the West African country. The players numbering about twelve stormed…
Players From Across Nigeria Set To Storm Lagos For 3rd Azimuth Shipping Lines Junior Tourney
Nigeria Tennis Live has gathered that players from all parts of Nigeria are expected at the fast approaching AZIMUTH Shipping Lines Limited Junior Tennis Championship holding in Lagos State. Information reaching our correspondent revealed that apart from the strong presence…
Junior ITF Rankings: Abayomi Starts 2020 As Top 500 Player As Jebutu, Others Maintain Status Quo
Nigeria’s Abayomi Philips is among the top 500 world junior tennis players on the ITF Junior Tennis rankings as the 2020 tennis season kicks off across the world. Nigeria Tennis Live reports in 2019 showed that the Nigerian youngster shot…
Organizers Confirm Date For Leap Year Junior CBN Open
Baring last minute change of plans, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Junior Tennis Open, will hold in the last week of February, 2020. Mr. Godwin Kienka, the director of the International Tennis Academy (ITA) organizers of the event, noted…
AZIMUTH Shipping Lines Announces Dates For First Junior Tournament Of Year 2020
AZIMUTH Shipping Lines Limited has announced the dates for the first tournament for the year 2020, Nigeria Tennis Live can report. The tournament – AZIMUTH Shipping Lines Limited Junior Tennis Championship – which is in its third year rewards winners…
There’s No Tennis Tournament In Port Harcourt – Coach Cries Out
A Port Harcourt-based junior tennis coach, Lukmon Akinona Ajibose, has cried out over the neglect of tennis in Rivers state, especially the capital city, over the past few years. In a chat with Nigeria Tennis Live from his base, the…
We Were Shocked! Tswako Foundation Tourney Organizers Say After Players’ Turnout On Day 1
Organizers of the ongoing Tswako Foundation junior tennis tournament have expressed shock at the number of players who stormed the venue of the event on the first day of the event. Nigeria Tennis Live had reported that US-based tennis player,…
JUST IN: Marylove Moves Up In New ITF Junior Rankings, As Quadre Maintains Status Quo
In the recent junior rankings released by the ITF on Monday, 9 December, Nigeria’s junior female tennis players have shown some level of improvements, especially talented Marylove Edwards. Checks on the ITF website on Monday showed that Edwards moved five…
