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Curtain falls on the maiden Rainoil Tennis open today at the Clay Courts of the Lagos Lawn Tennis Club, Ikeja.
The tournament which started on December 8 has provided so much thrills and excitements coupled with mouth-watering upsets of favourite players live Slvester Emmanuel, Thomas Out and Abdulmumini Babalola.
Highly rated Sarah Adegoke will be up against Blessing Samuel in the Women’s Singles final while Joseph Imeh and Henry Atseye will slog it out in the men’s final.
Atyese, it will be recalled defeated Out and Babalola to reach the final and all eyes are on him to clinch the title.
Some junior players like Serena Teluwo, Iye Onoja and Oiza Yakubu took part in the competition but lost out in the early rounds.
Rainoil CEO Gabriel Ogbechie, has promised that the tournament will be an annual event and will also gradually enter the calendar of the International Tennis Federation.
Ogbechie is expected to lead a cream of other personalities to the LCC to witness the final on Sunday.
“We hope to make it an annual event, a tournament that the country’s boys and girls will be looking forward to at the end of every year.
“The winner who will be going home with N500,000 and N350,000 in the men and women’s categories respectively, other players in this competition must have been happy to smile home with prize money depending on the stage of exit,” he said.
The GMD further revealed that there was plan to make the competition an international event whereby professional tennis players across the world will be converging in the country to be part of the Rain Oil Tennis Open.
