$10,000 LAGOS, NIGERIA

11 Aug 2003 - 17 Aug 2003 Last Updated: 05 Aug 2003


Rank Date: 21 Jul 2003

5 August 2003 International Tennis Federation

Main Draw Nation Ranking Prot'd Points Information

1 KHOO Chin-Bee (04/05/1977) MAS 373
2 VAKHARIA Megha (28/08/1984) IND 548
3 PHADKE Sonal (09/06/1982) IND 736
4 SNYMAN Michelle (04/07/1986) RSA 753
5 DANDENIYA Rebecca (28/05/1984) GBR 760
6 PEREIRA Liza (05/10/1983) IND 783
7 FERNANDEZ-BRUGUES Eva (05/05/1986) ESP 795 =
8 MILLER Anna (04/01/1986) AUT 1046 =
9 ANASTASIU Anca (14/06/1984) RSA 4.50
10 SZOWNADZE Nino (03/02/1985) POL 2.00
11 ABRAMOVIC Maria (19/08/1987) CRO 1.75
12 JAGOSOVA Klara (15/03/1985) CZE 1.00
13 DE BODT Jennifer (14/09/1985) BEL 0.75
14 SVICOVA Tereza (15/06/1985) CZE 0.75
15 ABRAMOVIC Ana (02/02/1986) CRO
16 AVDIYENKO Katerina (26/09/1986) UKR
17 HEITMANN Hendrike-Lea (20/09/1986) GER

:fiery: - none of the Brits making the trip. For some reason they wanna play the London 10k which is extremely strong.

These events were better when they were held in September.

No Femi? :confused:

That commitment list is a shame :o Doesn't Carly Homewood have finalist points to defend here?

Go Megha and Liza! :)

-neil

lol Anna Miller 8th seeded :drool:

Yes Carly has both semi and finalist points to defend. But last year, the events were held in September.

Draw? Results? Anyone?

-neil

Unranked player to be seeded?
Is that possible?

Here's an articale giving soem results:

UK-based Nigerian tennis sensation, Clara Udofa made it big yesterday in the ongoing Heineken International Tennis when she defeated fifth seed and WTA ranked Fernadez-Bri Eva in two straight sets.

Udofa firing from all cylinders overpowered her opponent 6-2, 6-2.

The young lady, one of Nigeria's medal hopefuls at the All Africa Games displayed a perfect mastery of the game when she out served the Spaniard on her way to obtaining a ticket for second round billed to serve off this morning at the Lagos Lawn Tennis Court.

Abinu Fatimoh, who defeated compatriot Seun Ogundare 6-4, 2-6, 6-4 to berth in the second round will meet Khoo Chin-Bee, while Biodun Oyegoke who saw off fellow Nigerian, Taiwo Aminat in two straight sets of 6-3, 6-2 to also book a place in the second round.

Another Nigerian, Hannah Eke walked over Germany's Huttmann Hendrike-Len to get into the money spinning second round
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INterestingly, the Nigerian tennis federation has sent its best players to a training camp in germany to prepare for the African games. Thios means that Femi Odeyemi-Musa and Osaro Amadin (the 2 Nigerians with a ranking) along with 2 others, are missing these 2 10k's.

Seems a bit stupid to me.

i'm pretty sure tehy mean Eva Fernandez-Bruges, not Eva fernandez-Bri :p

Jay found an article in the Nigerian newspaper This Day:

Clara Udofa recorded another easy win in the ongoing Heineken International Tennis Champioship when she overpowered her home-based counterpart, Hannah Eke in two straight sets of 6-0, 6-2 ... Udofa who saw of the fifth seeded, Fernadez-Bri Eva in the first round of the competition is expected to face a tough opposition from Phadke, who is ranked fourth in the Heineken tourney and 724 by the WTA ... Also in the race for the semi-final ticket are the Abramovic sisters, Ana and Maria. While Maria defeated Russia's Anastasiu Arca 6-2, 3-6, 6-2 to move into the next stage, Ana out served Pereira 6-3, 2-6, 6-1 to move into the quarterfinal stage ... Today, Ana will struggle for a place among the front runners when she confronts the big hitting Michelle Snyman. He sister, Maria has Chin-Bee Khoo, the lady who threw out Nigeria's Abinu Fatimoh of the race to contend with.

-neil

Sonal :) good to see her win something at all...

Liza :rolleyes:

Anca Anastasiu is South African :tape: ;)

Chin Bee :D

thanks to aceman

(1) Chin Bee Khoo MAS vs bye
Fatima Abinu NGR d. Seun Ogundare NGR 64 26 64
Marija Abramovic CRO d. Amusan Kehinde NGR 60 61
(6) Anca Anastasiu RSA d. Abiodun Banigbata NGR 60 60
(4) Sonal Phadke IND vs bye
Abiodun Oyegoke NGR d. Aminat Taiwo NGR 63 62
Hannah Eke NGR d. Hendrike Heitmann GER ret.
Clara Udofa NGR d. (5) Eva Fernandez Brugues ESP 62 62
(8) Liza Pereira IND d. Debora Gbadamosi NGR 60 60
Ana Abramovic CRO d. Alice Izomor NGR 62 60
Jennifer Debodt BEL d. Iyabo Ogunwole NGR 61 60
(3) Michelle Snyman RSA vs bye
(7) Rebecca Dandeniya GBR d. Kateryna Avdiyenko UKR ret.
Anna Miller AUT d. Ngozi Dirisu NGR 61 61
Tereza Svikova CZE d. Ronke Akiagbade NGR 60 60
(2) Megha Vakharia IND vs bye


2nd round
Khoo d. Abinu 60 60
Abramovic d. Anastasiu 62 36 62
Phadke d. Oyegoke 61 60
Udofa d. Eke 60 62
Abramovic d. Pereira 63 26 61
Snyman d. Debodt 61 61
Dandeniya d. Miller 60 62 :sad:
Vakharia d. Svikova 60 60

Keep going Rebecca :D

Another article from This Day

Playing before a mixed crowd of tennis fans and players, Nigeria's UK-based tennis professional, Clara Udofa failed in her bid to book a place in the semi-final billed to serve off this morning at the Lagos Lawn Tennis Club.

In her encounter that lasted over two hours, Indian-born Sonia Phadke put a stop to Udofa's move beating her 6-3, 4-6. 7-5. Udofa until her exit from the international tourney yesterday was the only Nigerian left in the money spinning championship.

Speaking shortly after the loss, Nigeria's only hopeful at the All Africa Games admitted to being a little tired and made a couple of mistakes that cost her the match.

"Well, I made some mistakes here and there that turned out to be costly," adding ''that is the way of the game''.

She said despite her loss, she is very optimistic that she will do well at the coming All Africa Games.

Though, Udofa lost in the quarterfinal stage, she gathered enough points to give her a place in the Futures-11 also billed for the same venue.

She said after that championship, she would join the tennis team on training tour of Germany.

On her part, Phadke said she was just lucky to have run away with the victory, saying that she meet a tough opponent in Udofa. While thanking the organisers of the event for the free accommodation and feeding given them Phadke said, she will leave the country with fond memories of the hospitality.

She meets Chin-Bee Khoo in today's encounter

Go Chin Bee! :D

lmao at most of the Nigerians that turned up getting double bagelled!

Has Rebecca D won or lost?

Dandeniya lost 6-2, 6-1! :sad:

Quarter-final results

(1) Chin Bee Khoo MAS d. (6) Anca Anastasiu RSA 6-4, 6-3
(4) Sonal Phadke IND d. WC Clara Udofa NGR 4-6, 6-3, 7-5

(3) Michelle Snyman RSA d. Ana Abramovic CRO 6-3, 6-3
(2) Megha Vakharia IND d. (7) Rebecca Dandeniya GBR 6-1, 6-2

Here are two more articles:

http://www.vanguardngr.com/articles/2002/sports/sp314082003.html (On Megha Vakharia from wednesday - interesting stuff; about her title last year and her boyfriend in the US, etc ..)

http://www.thisdayonline.com/sport/20030815spo03.html (Friday roundup, mostly Udofa loss to Phadke)

http://www.vanguardngr.com/articles/2002/sports/sp415082003.html (Friday roundup, again only Udofa vs Phadke in there).

Jay

Chin-Bee actually beat Marija Abramovic (CRO) in the QF, not Anca Anastasiu. :)

Palicot, the Sonal d. Udofa score was 63 46 75 according to the newspapers.

Jay

Udofa was up 5-3 in the third set :sad:

Rebecca:eek:

These results are from Aceman's site.

You're quite right Khoo did beat Abramovic not Anastasiu, sorry about that. :retard:

Michelle :D
Anca :(

Rebecca :sad: Good luck next week :)

No help from newspapers yet on the friday matches.. "Guardian" has not updated for saturday morning, "This Day" has no updates, and "Vanguard" sports section has skipped the tennis event, now that Clara Udofa is out.

Hope aceman gets something later.

Jay

Chin Bee :D

chin-bee :)

Udofa :(

Sonal wins the title! .. Here is the news from "The Hindu" newspaper, India.

Sonal Phadke defeated the third-seeded Michelle Snyman of South Africa 6-4, 6-2 to clinch the title in the $10,000 ITF women's circuit tennis tournament in Lagos, Nigeria, on Saturday.

The 21-year-old Sonal, seeded four, had earlier knocked out the top-seeded Chin Bee Khoo of Malaysia 7-6 (11-9), 2-6, 6-3 in the semifinals, on way to her maiden title at this level. She saved three set points in the first set.

Sonal had got past wild card entrant Clara Udofa of Nigeria 4-6, 6-3, 7-5 in the quarterfinals. The second-seeded Megha Vakharia went down 2-6, 4-6 to Michelle Snyman in the semifinals, after beating Rebecca Dandeniya of Britain 6-1, 6-2. Megha, however, had little difficulty in clinching the doubles title with Chin Bee Khoo, as the top-seeded pair cruised past Anca Anastasiu of South Africa and Jennifer Debodt of Belgium, hardly dropping a game in the final.

Earlier the Indo-Malaysian combination had beaten Rebecca Dandeniya and Michelle Snyman 6-4, 6-3 in the semifinals.

Jay

Nino withdrew :sad:

well done Sonal, Chin Bee :(

Chin-Bee :(

Congrats, Phadke!!! ;) :wavey: Another Indian talent! :bounce:

Good effort for Chin Bee in trying anything she could by traveling that far...I hope, u don't try to be queen of 10K like Chia Jung Chuang... :( :sad: Regroup, Chin Bee...get back 2 ur form! :cool:

Wow, congrats to Sonal. She showed so much promise a few years ago, it's nice to see her win a title again. This victory is just what she needed. :D

Chin Bee :sad: :( :sad: