More than 56 players and 25 officials from 26 countries have requested for invitation letters to ease their visas’ procurement to participate in the forthcoming 11th Governor's Cup Lagos Tennis Championship.
The FCMB and Etisalat sponsored International Tennis Federation, ITF, approved circuit will be played at the Lagos Lawn Tennis Club, Onikan from 15-30 October.
Some of the countries which players are coming to play the two week international championship are Belgium, Brazil, Bosnia, France, Hungary, India, Israel, Japan, Netherlands, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Spain, Slovenia, Slovakia, Sweden, Switzerland, South Africa, Ukraine, United Kingdom, USA, Zimbabwe, Czech Republic, Germany, Senegal, Cote D' Ivoire.
Others are Austria, Australia, Greece, Spain, Argentina, Ukraine, Croatia, Poland, Montenegro, Italy, Bulgaria and Sweden.
Some of the players who had registered for the tournament according to the website of the ITF included past winners, Boy Westerhof of Holland, Kamil Capkovic of Slovakia, Gard Catalin-ionut of Romania and Virali-Murugesan Ranjeet of India.
In the women’s event are Nina Bratchikova of Russia, Melanie Klaffner of Austria, Tamaryn Hendler of Belgium, Dalila Jakupovic of Slovakia Agnes Szatmari of Romania, Karolina Nowak of Germany and Keren Shlomo of Israel.
Anton Rens is the Tournament Referee and the ITF Representative is staging a comeback to Lagos after last year’s competition. It was gathered that Rens will be assisted by Saidu Musa and Patrick Kumahia and other 30 national umpires from Nigeria Tennis Federation, NTF.
Meanwhile, the Local Organising Committee, LOC, headed by Chief Pius Akinyelure is working round the clock to ensure a smooth organisation of the competition
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