Nigerian players continued their good run at the ongoing ITF West and Central Africa Junior Tennis Championship in Cotonou, Benin Republic.

Yesterday, Nigerian player, Edward Christopher created the biggest upset of the first leg of the ITF Junior circuit when he defeated the number one seed of the tournament, Courtney Lock of South Africa 6-2, 6-4 to advance to the quarter final.

Another Nigerian player, Joseph Imeh similarly defeated Ivorian Yannis Moulod 6-3, 6-0 to also make it to the quarter final.

However, the country’s good run was cut short as highly rated Sylvester Emmanuel lost his single’s game to Ouattara Abdulkarim 6-3, 7-6.

National tennis coach, Ubale Mohammed who is leading the team at the two-legged junior tennis fiesta said on telephone from Cotonou last night that the pair of Imeh and Chetty defeated Brauer and Ague of Austria 6-1, 6-3 in the doubles.

Another Nigerian duo of Edward and Sadiq similarly advanced to the next round of the doubles with a 6-3, 6-4 victory over Sylvester and Michael to move into the q’final.

Coach Ubale remained hopeful that by the time the second leg of the championship begins in Lome, Togo, the fortunes of Nigeria would have improved tremendously.

“Like I predicted before coming here, our players are doing well and will definitely return home with good results from their outing here,” observed the national coach last night.