Lagos State Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode honoured winners of the 2015 edition of Governor’s Cup Lagos Tennis Championship Dut...
Lagos State Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode honoured winners of the 2015 edition of Governor’s Cup Lagos Tennis Championship Dutchman Antal Van Der Duim andConny Perrin of Switzerland.
The duo won the men and women’s singles of the $80, 000 prize-money International Tennis Federation (ITF)- approved competition on Saturday, December 19.
Perrin defeated Tadeja Majeric, who was a winner in the 2013 edition and runner up in the first leg (Futures 1) women’s singles 6-3, 4-6, 7-6 to lift the women crown, while Van Der Duim won a repeat of Futures 3 quarter final match, beating Zimbabwe’s Takanyi Garangaga 6-3, 6-4 to win the men’s singles title.
Ambode watched the final of the men’s singles alongside former Vice President of Nigeria Alex Ekwueme and other dignitaries which includes Chairman of the Local Organising Committee (LOC), Chief Pius Akinyelure, President of Nigeria Tennis Federation (NTF), Sani Ndanusa, school children and tennis pundits at the Lagos Lawn Tennis Club, Onikan.
The men’s doubles was won by the Africa’s pair of Harris Llyod (South Africa) and Karim-Mohammed Maamoun(Egypt), while the women’s doubles was won by Indian Prarthana Thombare and Julia Terziyska from Bulgaria.
Governor Ambode presented trophies to both winner and runner up of the men’s singles.
LOC boss, Akinyelure presented the trophies to the winner and runner up in the women’s singles. President Lagos Lawn Tennis Club, Edu presented winners of the men’ doubles their trophies, while women’s doubles winners received their trophies from the President of NTF, Ndanusa.
