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By Oluwole Francis<\/p>\n

President of the Wheelchair Tennis Federation, Engineer Sani Ndanusa says Puma Wheelchair Tennis\u00a0 Championship have come to stay in Nigeria<\/p>\n

According to him, Puma international is a point earning from International Tennis Federation (ITF) and Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP).<\/p>\n

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\u201cThis competition will bring players close to the qualification for the Paralympics and that is the reason we decided to organise the tournament in Nigeria.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are trying to encourage them and to support them to continue to play and I am glad we are able to do the third edition of puma wheelchair tournament,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

He said that he is happy the sports is getting also more and more popular and the quality and standard increasing by the year.<\/p>\n

\u201cWheelchair puma tennis has come to stay because of the value it is adding to the sport not only in Nigeria but in Africa and the world,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

He added that sponsorship is one of the key factors slowing the development of the sport.<\/p>\n

\"Oxfam<\/p>\n

\u201cSponsorship is another issue because sponsorship is key. You cannot go to major tournaments without being sponsored.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo we will try to see how we can provide some grants like transport and training grants,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

He said in the last edition, about five countries participate \u2014 Cameroon, Tanzania, Ghana , Kenya and Nigeria.<\/p>\n

\u201cOnly Kenya and Nigeria are participating in the third edition, because most countries are just coming out from COVID-19 which affected low the participation of countries.<\/p>\n

\u201cI believe that in the next edition, we will have more countries to participate. We will keep on working hard. We will continue to encourage the players present in this edition,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Oluwole Francis President of the Wheelchair Tennis Federation, Engineer Sani Ndanusa says Puma Wheelchair Tennis\u00a0 Championship have come to stay in Nigeria According to him, Puma international is a point earning from International Tennis Federation (ITF) and Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP). \u201cThis competition will bring players close to the qualification for the Paralympics …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1001015,"featured_media":17305,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[183],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-sports"],"yoast_head":"\nWheelchair Tennis Has Come To Stay In Nigeria-Ndanusa - GongNews<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/gongnews.net\/wheelchair-tennis-has-come-to-stay-in-nigeria-ndanusa\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Wheelchair Tennis Has Come To Stay In Nigeria-Ndanusa - 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