By John Egbokhan
More than 56 players from 26 countries have requested for invitation letters to ease their visas’ procurement to participate in the 11th Governor’s Cup Futures I and II serving off October 15 at the Lagos Lawn Tennis Club, Onikan.

Some of the countries whose players have confirmed their participation at the competition ending October 30, inclide 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 andCote D’ Ivoire.

Others are Austria, Australia, Greece, Spain, Argentina, Ukraine, Croatia, Poland, Montenegro, Italy, Bulgaria and Sweden.

Some of the players who registered for the tournament according to the website of the ITF include 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 field, the likes of 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 have also registered.