By John Egbokhan
Croatia’s Borna Coric has won the men’s singles title of the First City Monument Bank-sponsored Governor’s Cup Futures 1.

The 16 year-old  sixth seed defeated Ante Pavic of Croatia in two sets of 6-4,6-3 to win the 35 ATP ranking points..
He recently won the 2013 US Open Junior Championship and this is the first Futures win for the Croat, who was elated with his victory.
”Winning the US Open junior tournament gave me the confidence that I could win the Governor’s Cup. I worked hard and it paid off for me.

I’m so glad that I came to Lagos as a player on number 525 in the world ranking, but winning this leg has improved my ranking. This is a great leap.I’m looking forward to the second leg with high expectation of winning it.”

In the women’s singles final, top seed Tadeja Majeric of Slovenia defeated  eight seed Dalila Jakupovic of Slovakia in two hard-fought sets of 7-5,7-5 to win the $25.000 prize money of Futures 1.

In the men’s doubles final, the pair of Ante Pavic of Croatia and South African Ruan Roelofse defeated the Croatian duo of  Borna Coric and Dino Marcan 7-6,6-2 British ladies, Naomi Broady and Emily Webley-Smith defeated Cristina Dinu of Romania and Fatma Al Nabhani of Omar 3-6, 6-4, 10-7 to win the doubles crown.