The management of Nigeria’s foremost tennis club, Lagos Lawn Tennis Club, said the club would embark on a ‘Young in Court project’ initiative that is aimed at inculcating to students in secondary schools the basics and rudiments of tennis aimed at birthing the next generation of Tennis enthusiast that will drive the nation and re-establish the nation’s glory.
The club’s new President Kolade Olutekunbi made this known during a meeting which was held at the Tafawa Balewa Square, Lagos Island, recalling how inter-House sports competitions hosted by schools back then birthed most of the nation’s sporting stars. He described the current fate of school sporting competition as pitiable being a lot of schools have swept all nature of sporting activities under the carpet being that they only focus basically on academia and nothing else.
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“It is quite disheartening to see that most of our children will grow to be nothing but television sports enthusiasts because they never experience the sport for themselves,” he said.
“ The inter-house sports competition was not only an incubating space where young athletes were birthed but an avenue for students to succeed outside the four walls of the classroom.
“Some students may not be able to make appreciable distinctions within the classroom, but you see, inter-house sports competitions not only provide them with a sense of belonging but also boost their morals and revamp their confidence level that they too matter.”
Speaking on the state of Tennis in the nation, he noted that a great number of Nigerians might be interested in joining but were sceptical the sport is exclusively for the elites.
Caption: President Sunday Club Kolade Olutekunbi, Rear Admiral Okanla Oni (Trustee), Chairman Sunday Group Prince Gbolahan Lana and Alhaji Adewale Bishi