Lagos- Mary-love Edwards and Angel Maclord on Saturday won the girls U-14 and U-16 CBN Junior Tennis Championship respectively, the News Agency of Nigeria reports.
which ended at the Lagos Lawn Tennis Club.
NAN reports that, the duo who are eying the CBN Senior event in May, displayed class in all their matches to achieve the feat.
Edwards, who employed lob shots, snap shots and drop shots to the delight of the spectators, defeated Timipre Maxwell 9-0 while Maclord outwitted her friend Edwards in U-16 to win.
Commenting on her victory, Maclord said that, it would have been disastrous if Edwards had stopped her from starring in the senior category.
“I am a three time winner of this event alongside Edwards who has already been given a wild card to participate in the senior; moreover she has won in U-14 class.
“I have my eyes on the senior circuit and this is the opportunity I have been looking for,” Maclord said.
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Other champions of the 9th edition were Daniel Adeleye who defeated Fortune Joseph 9-2 to win the U-10 category while Temipre Maxwell beat Iye Onoja 9-3 in girls U-12.
In the boys U-12 David Daurariye defeated Usman Kushimo 9-5 to emerge winner while in boys U-18 Martins Agamu humbled Chris Bulus 9-1 to carry the day.
Speaking at the event Sam Ebuchulam, President, Lagos Lawn Tennis Club called on corporate bodies in the country to invest more in the game as a way of paying back to society.
“There is need for organisations that are making money in the country to aid the government to groom the youth in something that can bear positively in the society.
“It is an all encompassing programme that can groom youth to be good in all facets of lifel,” he said (NAN)