Blessing Omotayo Leads Team B To Win Topshop UTR Event

Team B led by Blessing Omotayo at the weekend won the 3rd edition of the Topshot Universal Tennis Rating event which ended Saturday at the Lagos Civil Service Club, Ikeja.

After a very interesting four-day contest in the round robin team event, Team B emerged tops with a total of 24 points in the Girls category.

Mary Udoffa, Faith Ameh and Osayinweh Osaherun were the other members of the team who supported Blessing Omotayo to win the championship.

Team C, led by Bamidele Omotayo came second with 20 points while Toyin Asogba led Group A came third with 16 points.

In the Boys category, Team C emerged first with 24 points with Micheal Osewa as captain. Other members of the team are Joseph Jimoh, Mueex Owolabi and Fortune Emmanuel.

Philip Abayomi led Team to emerge second with 20 points just as Daniel Adeleye came third with 16 points.

The competition is organized by Topshop to boost the chances of young smasher seeking scholarship to the United States of America.

On final day, the sponsors led by Mr Lanre Ola were delighted about the competition which had for national tennis player, Jumoke Yakubu as the Technical Director.

Yakubu said the standard and turn out of the 2023 edition was an improvement on the past two editions.

“We are very happy the players had fun and the sponsors were also elated. The chairman of Lagos Tennis Federation, Tokunbo Agoro and Mr. Niyi Oloko of the Lagos Service Club were at the final. We expect subsequent editions to be even better,” Yakubu said.