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Wednesday, December 12, 2012

Bala out of Olagbegi tennis tourney

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Bala out of Olagbegi tennis tourney
Dec 12th 2012, 23:00

Number 10 seed Musa Bala will not be part of this year's edition of the Olateru Olagbegi Tennis tournament which begins on Thursday in Akure. The tournament was instituted by the Sir Olateru Olagbegi Foundation.

Organisers say the player is unavoidably absent and that his place has been offered 15th seed Ahmidu Abdulahi. But aside the star's absence, top seed Babalola Abdulmumin and 14 other notable professional tennis players will compete for prize money and trophies at the tournament in Akure.

Among them are Atseye Henry, Madueke Nonso, Omoile Samuel, Shehu Lawal, Owolabi Taiwo, Samuel Jonah and Enosoregbe Clifford.

The other players competing for the N175,000 star prize are Owolabi Jinadu, Michael Anthony, Ekanem Etim and Mbanu Onyeka. Organisers also told our correspondent that two wild card places were given to Sunday Kolade and Ayodele Damilare who are from the host town.

On Wednesday, around 100 kids drawn from various schools in Ondo State had a training session with the state's sport council tennis head coach Mayowa Osho. He was assisted by the Federal University of Technology tennis coach Rotimi Obey, Sule Usman and Seun Makanjuola.

Osho said the emphasis was on the basic skills in tennis, racquet handling and positioning on the court. He added that the technical crew was able to identify talents among the kids.

"We saw some talents among the children. Some of them were able to quickly understand the teaching and applied it in raw form. If we have regular clinc like this across Nigeria, we can develop quickly as a tennis playing nation and raise champions," Osho said.

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