Tennis
9 Aug
US tennis great Serena Williams announced on Tuesday that "the countdown has begun" to her retirement from the sport.
9 Aug
Serena Williams stepped onto a hardcourt for the first time in a year and a half on Monday and fought through for a 6-3, 6-4 victory over Spain's Nuria Parrizas Diaz.
7 Aug
Daniil Medvedev will get the chance to further solidify his fragile world number one ranking as the ATP Montreal Masters begins Monday.
5 Aug
Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Bello, has approved an N15 million scholarship for 12-year-old table tennis prodigy, Sezuo Ize Azziza.
1 Aug
Seun Ogunsakin from Ekiti State regained his No.1 position in the ITA Junior Tennis Circuit Boys U-16s ranking with a convincing 9-6 victory over his perennial rival, Mubarak Ganiyu, from Oyo State...
29 Jul
Kater Kpum from Benue State, yesterday, caused a major upset in the boys’ U-16 category of the on-going SNEPCo Junior Tennis Masters by beating defending champion of the MTN Junior Tennis League, Mubarak Ganiyu from Oyo State.
28 Jul
National U- 16 champion, Seun Ogunsakin, yesterday, recovered from 5 to 8 games down against Gboko-based wildcard, Kater Kpum, to win the first round robin match of the SNEPCo Junior Tennis Masters...
25 Jul
Organisers of the SNEPCo National Junior Championships have revealed that this year’s Junior Tennis Masters, featuring the best four players in the boys and girls’ 12s and 16s categories, will begin tomorrow ...
25 Jul
Nigeria’s U-19 team to the 2022 ITTF Africa Youth Championships, at the weekend, qualified for the World Youth Championships by beating Egypt 3-1 in the final of the team event.
24 Jul
Novak Djokovic, Rafael Nadal, Roger Federer and Andy Murray will play together for the first time for Team Europe at the Laver Cup in London.
22 Jul
Two years out from Paris hosting the Summer Olympics there is widespread concern over security, exacerbated by the dreadful spectacle of the chaotic scenes at the Champions League final at the Stade de France. Police tear-gassing frustrated Liverpool fans, including children and the disabled, was not the fault of the supporters but, according to a…
21 Jul
After the first two editions in Kaduna, the yearly Adewale Isa Memorial National Junior Championship is coming to Lagos for the first time, with contestants from across the country billed to converge on the National Stadium, Surulere, from August 1 to 6.
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