Rock Tennis Foundation in partnership with Nigeria Tennis Federation and Ogun State Tennis Association have concluded plans to hold the 4th edition of annual tennis holiday clinic holding from this Tuesday, 3rd of January till Saturday 7th of January, 2023
The clinic targeted at producing world class tennis players from beginners and existing junior players in the state, is slated to hold at the Green Courts, Abeokuta Sports Club, Ibara Housing Estate in Abeokuta, the State capital
The State Tennis Association's media officer, Olusegun Olukoga who made this known in a statement on Monday, says participants for the clinic have been drawn from thirty-six states of the federation including FCT.
The statement added that would also be a national open championship for under 16 and under 12 closed tournaments amongst other , in addition to open clinic and Davis cup style doubles for young players between ages 6 and 12.
According to the statement, Tennis Head coach, Kehinde Ijaola maintained that, the association is passionately committed to developing talented, professional young tennis players in the state.
He said, one of Ogun State tennis players would be travelling to USA this month on scholarship and will be playing college tennis at the university.
Mr. Ijaola maintained that, the target is to continue to produce one of the best players in the world.
"The foundation promotes GRASSROOTS development tennis program from time to time, combined with tournament. Unlike last year, we did southwest edition but this year's will be national under 16; we want to make sure that kids we have been training over the years are expose to national and international competitions. That's why we want to see their ability by engaging other tennis players from other parts of the country. So it is a clinic for beginners, and existing players to feature in tournament."
One of the organizers and a tennis player, AKINYEMI BANMEKE said, the tournament has gulped estimated fifty million naira since inception, four years ago, and the foundation would continue to expand the scope of the tennis clinic as a legacy to further discover talents and develop tennis at the grassroots level as well as encourage wellness in the young citizens; which in the end, will have both long-term and short-term positive benefits on the children.
"We are encouraging government to be more collaborative and create a template to developing grassroots tennis players because that's what we doing here, to catch them young, get them off the street, to engage them using tennis." The statement concluded.
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