Atseye, Quadre win Rainoil tennis Open
Nigeria’s men master of Clay Henry Atseye and women number one player Oyinlomo Quadre have been crowned winners of this year’s Rainoil Tennis Open Championship. Held at the Clay Court of the Lagos Country Club, in the men’s singles final, Henry Atseye proved why he is the master of Clay in Nigeria as he defeated […]
Nigeria’s men master of Clay Henry Atseye and women number one player Oyinlomo Quadre have been crowned winners of this year’s Rainoil Tennis Open Championship.
Held at the Clay Court of the Lagos Country Club, in the men’s singles final, Henry Atseye proved why he is the master of Clay in Nigeria as he defeated defending champion and number one seed, Joseph Imeh, by two straight sets of 7/6(7/4), 6/2 to emerge the winner.
Also, defending women champion of the annual Rainoil Tennis Open championship, Oyinlomo Quadre retained her title after beating no 1 seed, Marylove Edwards, in two straight sets.
Quadre, who came into the tournament as second seed after about seven months lay-off due to injury, proved too hard a nut for her opponent to crack as she dominated all the sets to end the ambition of Marylove Edwards whom she was meeting for the first time in her career and ended the game at 6-4, 6-1.
Speaking at the end of the energy sapping encounter, Quadre noted that she’s happy retaining the title despite seven months of lay-off.
“I’m really happy winning this tournament after coming back from injury. It was not an easy game because there was a lot of tension but I played my best game and won against an equally good opponent”, she said.
In the men’s doubles event, Mathew Abamu and Michael Chima defeated Henry Atseye and Nnoso Madueke to emerge winners, while the women’s doubles was won by Omolayo Bamidele and Oyinlomo Quadre
Winners in the men and women’s singles went home with N600,000 and N500,000 respectively, while their runners-up got N300,000 and N250,000 respectively. Winners of the men and women’s doubles went home with N600,000 and N500,000 respectively.