About 200 lawn tennis players from the South West states and Kwara State will storm Osun State for a three-day competition to be organised by the Osogbo Tennis Club, in honour of the Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi, Ojaja.
The competition, dubbed Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi 1st Annual Invitational Tennis Tourney, will see ten clubs from Lagos, Oyo, Ondo, Osun, Ogun, Ekiti, and Kwara states slugging it out.
According to the club’s Secretary, Mr Kayode Oladeji, in a statement, the competition is being put together to coincide with the first anniversary of the coronation of Ooni Ogunwusi .
To this end, the three-day event slated for Wednesday 14th to Saturday 17th December 2016 would see the participation of Osogbo Tennis Club, Osogbo, Ibadan Tennis Club, Ibadan, Obafemi Awolowo Tennis Club, Ibadan.
Skye Tennis Club, Ikeja, Lagos and Lagos Lawn Tennis Club, Lagos.
Others, the statement added, include Ondo Senior Civil Service Club (Tennis Family), Akure, Kwara Sports Club, Ilorin, OAU Tennis Club, Ife and Abeokuta Tennis club, Abeokuta.
Oba Ogunwusi, the Osun State governor, Mr Rauf Aregbesola, among other dignitaries, are expected to grace the finals scheduled for Saturday, December 17.
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