National junior stars, Michael Osewa, Angel Mcleod and Fortune Aniso headline some of the star performers at ongoing 2016 NNPC Junior Tennis Championship at the National Stadium Lagos.

7-year-old Iye Onoja doing her thing

Osewa, who was scheduled to be in the ITF European Tour but could not attend due to the French Embassy’s refusal to issue him visa won three of his group matches. He defeated Ezekiel Ekong of Lagos 9-2 in the boy’s 16 &under while he also defeated Kazeem Fadipe 9-1 in the 18 & under.

McLeod also showed class as she won all her preliminary matches to advance to the next round. She defeated Toyin Asogba 9-8 on Centre Court on Wednesday in the girl’s 16&under.

There are also wins for Rivers State duo of Fortune Aniso and Timipre Maxwell. Aniso defeated Omolade Aderemi and Esther Olamide both from Ondo 9-0, 9-0 to advance to the next stage in the girl’s U16 and Maxwell was equally ruthless with 9-0 bashings of Esther Marshall of Cross River and Ebere Igbokwe the girl’s 14&under.

Marylove Edward was also impressive wining two of her three games in the preliminary round. Emmanuel Jebutu also look good to progress by beating his Lagos teammate Wilson Igbinovia 9-4 and Fabian Joseph of Kaduna 9-6.

Christopher Bulus of defeated Ahmed Adefilaka 9-2 but lost to Stephen Augustine 9-4 and need to beat Promise Ekong to progress in the boy’s 18&under. Daniel Adeleye of Ekiti also shone by winning all his four group matches in the boy’s 12&under.

The tournament which is featuring over 130 players from all states is organised by the International Tennis Academy run by Godwin Keinka.