Shell Club Warri hosts Team Hope versus CBN Features tie

The NCC Tennis League is taking national competition to one more city, as Team Hope takes their final round robin tie against Team CBN Futures to the Shell Club in Ogunu, Warri.

The NCC Tennis League is taking top quality tennis to major cities and clubs in Nigeria and will this weekend also hold in Abuja and Lagos. 

Team Hope, which has rising stars, Ikechukwu Iloputa and Paul Emmanuel, will have to cope with talented CBN Futures’ junior stars, Martins Abamu, Stephen Augustine, Godgift Timibra, Chimezie Onyejiaka for the men and teen sensation, Angel Mcleod for the women.

The Abuja National Stadium Tennis Centre will host the most explosive and decisive tie of all three, with Team FCT taking on last year’s runner-up, Team Civil Defence.

The Civil Defence team with two former national champions, Abdulmumuni Babalola and Shehu Lawal, and current women’s champion, Christie Agugbom, will have Team FCT’s Thomas Otu, immediate past national No.1, Emmanuel Sunday and Osaremen Airhunwhunde for the women to contend with. The tie will effectively decide the team that finishes top of the White Group.

The third tie this weekend is at the National Stadium, Lagos, between Team Lead Way and Team Anambra and will set the stage for the decisive tie on November 28 and 29 between Team Offikwu and Team Lead Way in Kaduna for the second semifinal spot from the Blue Group.

Sports commentators have described the NCC Tennis League as the greatest addition to Nigerian sports since independence. It is offering almost N30 million in prize monies. The winning team goes home with N7 million, runner-up N5 million, third place N3 million and fourth place N2 million.