Team Anambra Wins 4th NCC Tennis Championship League

Team Anambra has emerged as winners of the fourth edition of the Nigerian Lawn Tennis League sponsored by the Nigerian Communication Commission (NCC) held in Warri, Delta State on Sunday with a score aggregate of 6-1.

The promising event that was held for the first time in Warri featured a total of 12 teams identified as blue group and white group drawn from the six geopolitical zones of the country.

We gathered that Warri was chosen to encourage, Team Warri (Team Orofina) managed by The Orofina Beautiful Feet Foundation, which appeared on the league table for the first time.

Mr. Duke Onojeide, the tournament commissioner expressed confidence in all the teams that participated in the event. He described the players as young and energetic youths that are bound for greater exploits in the game in Nigeria and beyond.

NCC Head of Public Relations, Mr. Okoh Aihe, in his address stated that NCC is deeply interested in the development and increase of the tempo of career quest of youths in the game of tennis.

Okoh observed that the management of NCC decided to focus on tennis to remove the overcrowded concentration in football and basketball to assist youths who are interested in talent development in tennis, which is very attractive.

According to him, through the NCC efforts, several locations namely Lagos, Abuja, Anambra, Ekiti, Delta, Imo, Bauchi, Kano and others are already operating a functional Tennis League.

He hinted that besides the talent development and the opportunities opened to players within and outside Nigeria, the NCC will be giving a star prize of N7m to the overall winning team, which in his words is a robust commitment of the NCC as part of her Corporate Social Responsibilities (CSR). He boasted that the NCC mission is to make sure that it promotes tennis to a point of enviable heights where players from the league will become Olympic medalist.

The host of the event/Team manager of Team Orofina (Team Warri) Barr. Mrs Ahwin in her speech thanked the NCC, the tournament Commissioner, special dignitaries and respected invited guests who came from far and near to grace the fourth edition of the Championship in Warri.

Barr. Awhin submitted in her speech that she would ever remain committed to the grooming of talents in the game of tennis which is her primary objective, disclosing that, beside the N500, 000 subvention given to the teams, they usually go the extra mile to source for funds to keep the teams afloat in and out of season.