LSTTA Honours BRF With A Day Championship.

The Lagos State Table Tennis Association, LSTTA, has concluded arrangements to organize a day championship scheduled for Tuesday at the Mobolaji Johnson Indoor sportshall, Rowe Park, Yaba.

The competition according to the Association is to honor Governor Babatunde Raji Fashola and his Deputy, Adejoke Orelope Adefulure.

Chairman of LSTTA, Olumuyiwa Noah, said the competition tagged "Victory Cup 2011" was open to all Nigerian ping pongers as the Association is expecting a chart of 64 table tennis players.

This will be first major national table tennis championship after the National Table Tennis Federation is yet to stage a tourney as the trend have a negative impact in the developmental table tennis programmes unlike other African countries that are started a virile developmental programmes.

The tourney according to LSTTA would serve as an avenue to assess their ping pongers that would feature at this year's National Sports Festival.

According to him, the association's open camping preparatory to the National Sports Festival, in Rivers State, in June, 2011, had started since first of this month with 35 ping pongers just as the number would reduced to twenty- two.

To Noah, the best eleven table tennis players of six male and female would make the final list to the Games as plans are in top gear to surpass the association's past records in the last Sports Festival in Kaduna State.