Tennis

Team B, featuring Michael Osewa, Michael Ayoola, Fortune Joseph and Joseph Jimoh at the weekend won the boys’ event of the just concluded Topshot Universal Tennis Rating. At the competition held at the Air Force Base, Ikeja, Team B’s...

Rafael Nadal yesterday outlasted Stefanos Tsitsipas, 6/4; 6/7 (6); 7/5 to win the Barcelona Open, in a match for the records. It is the 87th title for 34-year-old Spaniard, who ended the 17- straight sets clay-court record of...

Spain’s Rafael Nadal celebrates with the trophy after winning the ATP Barcelona Open tennis tournament singles final match against Greece’s Stefanos Tsitsipas at the Real Club de Tenis in Barcelona on April 25, 2021. (Photo by Josep LAGO...

Serbia’s Novak Djokovic celebrates during his ATP 250 Serbia Open semi-final singles tennis match against Russia’s Aslan Karatsev at The Novak Tennis Centre in Belgrade on April 24, 2021. (Photo by PEDJA MILOSAVLJEVIC / AFP)World number one Novak...

Jannik Sinner Sinner defeated Andre Rublev of Russia, 6 /2; 7/6 to reach his first clay-court semi-finals. The 19-year old Italian, seeded 11th, achieved the upset on in their first career meeting. Rublev opened serving and held while Sinner...

Lagos country Club, Ikeja.Lagos Country Club Ikeja entrance | Photo credit: Private PropertyThe 4th MP Tiger Tennis Championship will serve off in Lagos today. It will end on April 24. Over 120 players representing states and clubs will feature...

Photo: PIXABAYThe International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) yesterday ranked Nigeria’s cadet sensation, Musa Mustapha, number one in the boys’ Under-11 category. Mustapha, who was part of the Nigerian team that won the 2019 ITTF Junior Circuit in Ghana,...

The European clay courts season started on April 10 with the Rolex Monte Carlo Masters 1000 won by Stefanos Tsitsipas in a symbolic change of guards. The train has berthed for the next leg in Barcelona Spain for...

The Tennis Section of Ikoyi Club 1938 has resumed its activities with a children’s clinic for the holiday period. The club, like other clubs around the world, suspended its activities following the outbreak of the coronavirus last year. The...

It was 50 years ago but Zhang Xielin still remembers vividly how a shaggy-haired American table tennis player stepped onto the Chinese team’s bus, a chance encounter which would shape history.This photo taken on April 10, 2021 shows...