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The
inaugural edition of the Chairman’s Table Tennis Cup Championship will
come up tomorrow at the Mobolaji Johnson Indoor Sports Hall in Lagos.

Over 100 table
tennis players will be competing for honours at the one-day event,
according to Uthman Okunnu, secretary of the Lagos State Table Tennis
Association. Okunnu also disclosed that the one-day championship will
play host to players of different categories.

“The tournament
will also serve as a training avenue for those who hope to compete at
the National Sports Festival in Port-Harcourt,” he said. “It will also
be used to gauge their level of performance, so that we would know
which athletes that will be invited to camp ahead of the Festival.”
Okunnu added that in a bid to have a successful outing at the sports
festival, the table tennis association has urged the coaches in the
state to submit a comprehensive training programme.

The secretary
further revealed that plans were underway to lure corporate bodies into
sponsoring the association’s programmes. “Plans are in top gear to seek
corporate and private individual sponsorship to help the association
organise regular tournaments and also to further promote the sport
which in times past brought fame to Nigeria at various international
tourneys,” continued Okunnu.

The Chairman’s Cup will be the first tournament to be staged by the
LSTTA this year. Last week, the duo of Segun Toriola and Monday
Morotohun had to go to Germany to stay prepared for the All Africa
Games.