Six more Nigerians book spot to Governor’s Cup Tennis main draws
Hostilities begin at the 16th Governor’s Cup Lagos Tennis championship as the players battle in the first round of the main draws of Futures 5 of the tournament in both the singles and doubles events of men and women’s categories.
Players whose points could not make it to the main draws played their qualifying matches on Saturday and yesterday at the Lagos Lawn Tennis Club, Onikan at the end of which winners joined other players in the round of 32 in the main draws which begin today.
Some Nigerian players scaled through the qualifying matches and they will be joining eight others who were given Wildcards by the International Tennis Federation, (ITF) to play in the main draws.
The players are Henry Atseye, Nonso Madueke, Aanu Ayegbusi, Osariemen Airhunmwunde, Edward Christopher Anefu and Ikechukwu Iloputa.
Players from 39 countries will be fighting for ranking points and prize money in the men and women’s events.
Enrique Lopez - Perez from Spain is the top seed in the men’s category, while Valetini Grammatikopoulou from Greece is the number one seed in the women’s event.
Men’s event has the likes of Nigeria’s Christian Paul, Umaru Balami, Moses Michael and Sylvester Emmanuel who all make the main draws. Others are Boy Westerhof from The Netherlands, France’s Calvin Hemerdon and Karim-Mohamed Maamoun from Egypt.