21 November 2008
Hope seems not lost for tennis players across the country as this year Ondo State Governor, Olusegun Agagu National Open Tennis Championship has been slated to serve-off November 30th till December 6th, 2008.
The championship, being sponsored by the state government is scheduled to hold at the tennis courts, Akure Sports Stadium, Akure and is anticipated to attract about two hundred tennis players who have been waiting endlessly for the commencement of the only sustaining national championship in the country.
According to the Secretary of the Ondo State Tennis Association, Gbenga Akeredolu while addressing sports media said that mouth-watering cash prizes have been earmarked for competitors in both men and ladies' categories.
Akeredolu also affirmed that every necessary tool to make the championship a huge success has been put in place while adequate measures for security of lives and property of all the participants as well as the spectators have been put in place.
The scribe noted that Governor Agagu efforts on developing the game of tennis and other sports in Ondo cannot be quantified having demonstrated his dire love in construction of various sporting centres across the state, a situation that has brought glamour and greater interest in sports among the teeming youths of the Sunshine State.
"Ondo State has tremendously developed in every aspects of sports since the emergence of our sports loving Governor Olusegun Agagu whose interest in sports development has rekindled the dire interest in the youths with the construction of sporting facilities for usage', Akeredolu noted.
It could be recalled that youthful Henry Atseye defeated former Nigerian top player, Abdulmumini Babalola to lift the converted trophy and handsome cash reward at the 2007 edition while fast rising Ronke Akingbade was unlucky against Fatimoh Abinu in ladies cadre when she bowed out gallantly at the epic final watched by the Deputy Governor of the state, Omolade Oluwateru and other top government officials.
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