Dalong,Ambode To Grace Governor's Tennis Final

Governor Ambode.

After almost two weeks of top class action, the curtains will fall on the 15^th Governor’s Cup Lagos Tennis Championship on Saturday with the Chief host and special guest of honour, Lagos State Governor,  Akinwunmi Ambode and Sports Minister; Solomon Dalong scheduled to lead a host of dignitaries to grace the Closing Ceremony at the Lagos Lawn Tennis Club, Onikan.

The finals of Futures 4 (men and women’s singles) will be played with the women’s final coming up by 1p.m, followed immediately with the men’s final.

 

 The Governor’s Cup, since inception during the tenure of Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has been a tournament organised to celebrate the sitting governor of Lagos State.

The International Tennis Federation, ITF, pro circuit is played for two weeks with this year’s  Futures 3 was won by Aldin Setkic from Bosnia (Men's Singles) and 17-year-old Tessah Andrianjafitrimo from France (Women).

 

Meanwhile, the battles for who become the men and women champions in Futures 4 got hotter and interesting in the matches of the quarter final played on Thursday.

A major upset was recorded in the women singles as, Andrianjafitrimo was stopped by Julia Terziyska of Bulgaria, number two seed 6-2,6-3 while Slovakia’s Tadeja Majeric, finalist in Futures 3, who won one of the legs in 2013 edition, won her game against Prarthana Thombare of India in straight set of 6-2,6-2.

 

Top seed Valeriya Strakhova from Russia beat Ulrikke Eikeri from Norway in straight set of 6-2,6-0, while Conny Perrin from Switzerland stopped the ambition of the Chinese Xiaoxi Zhao in 6-2,6-0 match.

 

In the men's singles, top seed Bosnia's Aldin Setkic look good to clinch  double haing won the First leg as he defeated Karim-Mohammed Maamoun of Egypt 6-2,7-6(5). Second seed South African, Harris Llyod  also clinched a semifinal place by beating France's Fabien Reboul 6-3,6-4.

Zimbabwean Takanyi Garanganga defeated Duncan Mugabe of Uganda 6-2, 6-1, while Antal Van Der Duim of the Netherlands defeated Sadio Dolumba of France 6-1,6-4.

In the semi final pairings, Setkic will play against Garanganga, while Van der Duim will slug it out against Harris in the men's game. Strakhova and Majeric will play one of the semi final matches in the women's singles, while Perrin and Terziyska will play the second semi final game.