NIGERIA AND DAVIES CUP COMPETITION

Recently Great Britain through Andrew Murray and his team mates won the Davies Cup after many unsuccessful years. The feat has put the country back in the reckoning as a tennis playing nation. Nigeria has remained far behind when it comes to the sport and this need to be rectified. Our tennis standard has fallen to an all-time low and if nothing is done urgently, our relevance will not be felt anymore. The country need to go back to the grassroots and develop school sports. Our youths through the NTF should feature prominently in WTA and ITF sponsored circuit competitions to get points and improve our rankings. There is the need to have foreign technical assistance and massive enlightenments and training. For the country to produce champions, we need lots of competitions and finance therefore corporate bodies should be involved from the onset. There is the need to bring to bear the experience of our retired champions especially to impact their knowledge on the youths. Davies Cup is a dream that can be achieved all we need is to change our attitude and actions towards tennis and the sky will be our limit.