The 2017 NCC
Tennis League will hit-off Thursday at the National Stadium, Surulere with a
playoff involving three teams vying to take the 12th spot in the main event.
The playoffs will last three days.
The three
teams are Team Anambra (Onitsha), Team Oluyole (Ibadan) and Team Police College
(Ikeja). These teams dropped into the playoff event based on their collective
team ranking as the Tennis League has a cap of 12 teams.
According to
the International Tennis Academy, organisers of the league, the matches will be
reduced to five matches to enable each tie to finish in one day. The matches to
decide each tie are: two men's singles, one ladies' singles, one men's doubles
and one mixed doubles.
"We are
expecting some very exciting matches as the teams are featuring some very good
national and intermediate players." A statement from the ITA said.
The NCC
Tennis League is the first of its kind in Africa and is offering a consolidated
prize money of N23 million this year.
The main
event will start next weekend with an opening match between star-studded Team
Civil Defence featuring Abdulmumuni Babalola, Clifford Enosoregbe and Christie
Agugbom and newcomers Team Muller which
has CBN Senior Championship finalist Joseph Imeh, Emma Idoko and Ronke
Akingbade on their list.
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