Tennis

Ikoyi Club (1938) has provided one of the best end of the year competitions for badminton players this season, with 32 of the country’s best stars ready to rumble for monies ranging from N500, 000 to N100,000.

Dubem Amasiani had to deploy all the tools in his tennis arsenal to overcome his national teammate, Joel Michael, in his first-round robin match in the Boys 14s at the Chevron Junior Masters, which served off yesterday at the Lagos Lawn Tennis Club.

Amadi Umeh showed why he is currently the country’s best home-based player, at the weekend, when he defeated hard-fighting Rilwan Akanbi to win the Third Quadri Aruna Open Table Tennis Championship.

Jide Diya and Yewande Banjoko have won the men and women’s categories of the Bluechip Technologies Table Tennis Premier Tournament, which ended at the Ikoyi Club at the weekend.

Following the conclusion of the preliminary round of the Third Quadri Aruna National Table Tennis Open, the event is now set for the knockout stage of the competition holding at Eko Club in Lagos.

Teams from across the country will begin their quest for laurels at the third Quadri Aruna National Table Tennis Open Championship, which serves off today at Eko Club, Lagos.

The top 64 players (boys and girls) in the U-15 and U-19 categories will compete at the First Daniel Ford International Elite Youth Invitational National Table Tennis Championships, which will hold from December 21 to 22 at the Molade Okoya-Thomas Hall ...

Organisers of the yearly Aruna Open Table Tennis Tournament have disclosed that the third edition of the competition will begin on November 29 and end on December 3 at Eko Club, Lagos. The tournament, which started as a cadet championship, has grown to become a national open for senior, junior and cadet players within and…

Nigeria table tennis star, Quadri Aruna, has been listed as the 15th player to qualify for the season-ending World Table Tennis (WTT) Finals Championship, which features the top 16 players in the world. The event will hold from January 3 to 5, 2024 in Doha, Qatar. The Nigerian will be making his third appearance at the WTT Finals.…

Novak Djokovic edged out Holger Rune on Friday to avenge his defeat in last year's Paris Masters final and reach the last four, while Stefanos Tsitsipas set up a meeting with Grigor Dimitrov.

American tennis great Billie Jean King called this week for a combined women and men's World Cup of tennis and for players to wear shirt numbers, to keep growing the sport.

Four teams, including MFM, Air Warriors, Bayelsa Whales and Nigeria Customs basketball clubs will, today, begin their campaign for the Zenith Bank Women’s Basketball League title at the Indoor Sports Hall of the National Stadium Surulere, Lagos.