LSTTA Set To Organise BRF Tourney.

Following the poor performance of the Lagos State ping pongers at the National Sports Festival in Rivers State, the state's Table Tennis Association has concluded plans to organise a competition tagged BRF Table Tennis Championship in September.

According to the Association, the competition would stroke off with a preliminary round between 21st and 23rd of September in six zones of the 57 local government and local council development area as four events would be decided in the Men's and Women's Singles as well as the Team events in male and female cadres.

The Association's Vice Chairman, Otunba Wasiu Mojeed, said winner at the prliminary rounds in the six zones would converge at Rowe Park, Yaba for the Semi and final billed for 29th and 30tieth of next month, adding that the association had sent letter of invitation to all the local governmnets and LCDA on the need to participate in the event.

He said each zone would be handled by the association's members who have been enjoined to ensure hitch free competition as the move would enable the association to have a pool of ping pongers who would be invited to camp on regular basis to keep them acquinted with the basics of table tennis, stressing that the association has resolved to reclaim its rightful position at the National Sports Festival which the state in hosting in November, 2011.

The Association's Technical Committee Chairman, John Peters, said the championship was geared at discovering talents who would be groomed ahead of next year's National Sports Festival billed for November,in Lagos State.

Peter, who explained that the association was not happy over the position of the state's ping pongers at the Garden City Games, assured that the association would commence developmental programmes where the talents discovered from the BRF Table Tennis Championship would have opportunity to join the class of outstanding table tennis players in the state.