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Amidst the complex but exquisite skills of fore-hand, back hand, top spins, mid court rallies, baseline expertise, scintillating aces et al, the annual Davnotch Open Tennis Championship, the fifth in the series, serves off July 13 through the 19th, at the tennis courts of the Moshood Abiola national stadium Abuja.
Top ranking Nigeria’s tennis prodigies within the local and the diaspora spheres, who have over the years participated in the tournament are expected to grace this edition with professional aplomb.
Dayo Akindoju, President, Nigeria Tennis Federation says that “Davnoth is helping immensely in the drive to encourage budding stars to global visibility and placing Nigeria on the global sports map”.
For example, Ikenna Okonkwo, who was discovered at the third edition of Davnotch tourney, is currently featuring in the ITF J-100 SVQ, tournament in Mexico enroute Tunusia for further exposure.
Also, there will be a remarkable novelty where the junior cadre players will compete to gain relevance and climb the competitive ladder to global exposure.
Aside this tennis tourney, Davnotch Open Championship is one in the plethora of sports sponsorships that Rt. Hon Victor Ochei, speaker emeritus of the Delta State house of assembly had embarked upon in using sports as a veritable tool for developing humanity.
He had previously sponsored the Delta Force football club. At some point, he bankrolled the programs and activities of the Nigeria wheelchair basketball federation as its patron and sponsor of three consecutive editions of the National wheelchair basketball championship.
Mention must equally be made of the annual Onicha-Olona Soccer Unity Cup competition for over six years running which had attracted soccer aficionados like Jay-Jay Okocha et al.
Most worthy of note and reference is that he built a functional community, Donald Ochei mini- stadium in his hometown of Onicha-Olona, Aniocha North LGA of Delta state.
Arguably, the mini-stadium is the first of its kind in this clime.
