Marylove Edwards makes Nigeria proud, emerges as Africa’s No. 3 in Under-12 Competition
The 2015 NNPC/Shell Junior Tennis Championship’s most outstanding player in the female category, Marylove Edwards has done it again. The Tennis whizkid has made Nigeria proud in far way Morocco by emerging third at the 2016 ITF/CAT 12 & Under Talent Identification Programme.
She beat her Kenyan opponent 6-1, 6-1 in the third-place match after losing narrowly by 7-5, 6-7, 4-6 to her Moroccan opponent in the semi-final. The tennis competition which held between August 26th and 28th recorded participants of over 80 players from 25 countries.
Edwards who was born on March 18, 2005, started playing tennis at age 4 under the guidance of her father, Eddy Edwards, and was coached by Nigeria junior tennis head coach, Mohammed Ubale ahead of the tournament.
Before her trip to Morocco, the Ishan, Edo State-born champion won last year’s U-14 CBN Junior Tennis Championship and the NNPC Junior Tennis Masters.
