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11 May 2016
Roger Federer made a winning return to the clay after last week's back pain, with the Swiss icon beating German teenager Alexander Zverev 6-3, 7-5 in the second round of the Rome Masters on Wednesday.
11 May 2016
Africa’s most decorated player, Segun Toriola, believes Nigerian players can break the jinx of not winning the ITTF Premier Lotto Nigeria Open title this year.
11 May 2016
Madrid Open owner, Ion Tiriac, has indicated his tournament may move away from equal pay for men and women. The debate was reignited in March by controversial comments from Indian ...
11 May 2016
Members of the FHA Tennis Club, Festac Town, have been prancing about the elite structure vying for honours in various events.
9 May 2016
Andy Murray and Amelie Mauresmo announced Monday that they had mutually agreed to end the Frenchwoman's two-year stint as coach of the two-time major champion.
9 May 2016
Novak Djokovic heads for Rome this week crediting an unscheduled pause in his claycourt season with helping him clinch a record 29th Masters title.
7 May 2016
Defending champion Andy Murray registered just his second ever win over Rafael Nadal on clay to reach the Madrid Masters final 7-5, 6-4 on Saturday.
6 May 2016
Defending champion Andy Murray continued his serene passage into the Madrid Masters semi-finals by sweeping past eighth seed Tomas Berdych 6-3, 6-2 on Friday.
5 May 2016
Defending champion Andy Murray sealed his place in the quarter-finals of the Madrid Masters on Thursday with a 6-4, 6-2 win over 16th seed Gilles Simon.
5 May 2016
The International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) has named Nigeria’s Aruna Quadri and Portugal’s Jieni Shao as top seeds in the men and women categories of the Premier Lotto Nigeria Open.
3 May 2016
European super-powers, Portugal, Russia and Hungary, as well as African giants, Egypt, will lead 11 other foreign countries to this year’s ITTF Premier Lotto Nigeria Open, tagged Lagos 2016.
3 May 2016
Roger Federer has withdrawn from this week’s Madrid Open due to a back injury.

Sport

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Napoli coach Rudi Garcia has insisted that Victor Osimhen loves Napoli despite the recent brouhaha following a highly controversial video posted on the club's official TikTok account.
10 hours ago
  Allegations of cheating with the use of overage players have dominated the National Youth Games in Asaba, Delta state. And only a few years ago, the immediate past President General Worldwide, Government College Ughelli Old Boys Association, Arc. Charles Majoroh came hard on attempts by some schools to desperately corrupt the enviable GCU Relays…
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Granddaughter of renowned constitutional lawyer, Olisa Agbakoba(SAN), Olaana Onyejianya, is dominating the swimming event at the ongoing Seventh National Youth Games in Asaba, Delta State. She is competing for Team Bayelsa. Onyejianya has won all the shades of medals at the Games, including gold in 100m backstroke, silver in 50m backstroke and bronze in mixed…
10 hours ago
Head of Nigeria Football Federation Technical Committee, Augustine Eguavoen, has said that the NFF did not at any time sack Super Falcons Coach, Randy Waldrum. Eguavoen told The Guardian, yesterday, that the Falcons manager, after the team’s performance at the 2023 Women’s World Cup in Australia and New Zealand, should continue his work to build a formidable squad…
10 hours ago
Defending champions, Team Delta, is leaving up to its earlier boast of winning the Seventh National Youth Games on home soil. As at yesterday morning, Team Delta was leading the table with 21 Gold, 14 Silver and nine Bronze. Team Lagos was second on the table with 12 gold, nine silver and eight bronze, while…