{"id":751,"date":"2022-05-28T18:10:02","date_gmt":"2022-05-28T18:10:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/citywatch.ng\/ive-lost-motivation-to-play-tennis-in-nigeria-quadri-says-guardian-nigeria\/"},"modified":"2022-05-28T18:10:02","modified_gmt":"2022-05-28T18:10:02","slug":"ive-lost-motivation-to-play-tennis-in-nigeria-quadri-says-guardian-nigeria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citywatch.ng\/?p=751","title":{"rendered":"I&#039;ve lost motivation to play tennis in Nigeria, Quadri says &#8211; Guardian Nigeria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oyinlomo Quadri<br \/>Oyinlomo Quadri, one of Nigeria\u2019s top female tennis players, says she has lost both the passion and motivation to play in tennis tournaments organised in the country.<br \/>Quadri who spoke to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja said she needed time to reflect on her performance and re-examine her goals and priorities.<br \/>NAN reports that Quadri lost to the tournament\u2019s number one seed Marylove Edwards in the women\u2019s singles event semi-finals at the 2022 CBN Senior Tennis Open Championships on Saturday in Abuja.<br \/>This was after she had taken an early lead and thoroughly dominated the first set which she won 6-1.<br \/>Edwards however bounced back from a set down to take the last two sets and knock out Quadri who was the tournament\u2019s number three seed 1-6 6-2 6-4.<br \/>Edwards eventually defeated number three seed Aanu Aiyegbusi 6-3 6-4 to win the tournament.<br \/>Quadri told NAN however that the game had made her to take some time out to reflect and think about her mental state.<br \/>She said she has lost interest and did not have any plans to play in the country anytime soon.<br \/>\u201cI don\u2019t have any plans to play in Nigeria again. I mean, I used to want to play here, especially after the first time I played here.<br \/>\u201cIt was my goal to win a lot of tournaments in the country.<br \/>\u201cBut I don\u2019t have those goals anymore. I think I have lost reasons to continue to play in this tournament for example.<br \/>\u201cFor instance, you will find that other players here are way more motivated than I am in this tournament.<br \/>\u201cI think that\u2019s a mental issue I need to personally work on and hopefully next time when I do come to play in this tournament it would be because I want to and I am motivated to do so,\u201d Quadri said.<br \/>She revealed that a lot of things affected her performance in the CBN tournament, emphasising however that she didn\u2019t want to go into specific details.<br \/>Quadri nonetheless expressed her gratitude to Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), the tournament\u2019s sponsors, for their continuous and unflinching commitment in supporting the tennis game in Nigeria for such a long time.<br \/>\u201cAlthough we had some issues bothering on players\u2019 welfare, which was one of the reasons a lot of things didn\u2019t go as planned, I will still like to thank the sponsors for putting this tournament together for the 44th time.<br \/>\u201cI could see what it meant to the players and I think I need to take a break and just try to find that reason to play here again,\u201d she said.<br \/>In terms of her national rankings, Quadri noted that it was difficult for her to actually prioritise that, noting that she was usually not in the country for most part of the year.<br \/>\u201cI am usually not available to play these tournaments in the country 80 percent of the time.<br \/>\u201cSo, it\u2019s not magic. I cannot maintain my number one position in the country any longer. But technically if you are looking at the rankings, I remain number one.<br \/>NAN also reports that the 19-year-old is currently the highest-ranked Nigerian in the Women\u2019s Tennis Association (WTA) women\u2019s singles category.<br \/>In the November 2019 WTA rankings, she was ranked number one in Nigeria, nine in Africa and 940 in the world in the women\u2019s singles category.<br \/>\u201cI am playing pro tennis now and presently ranked 1,000th in the WTA rankings.<br \/>\u201cSo, I am hoping to play so many international tournaments this year so as to continue to improve my rankings at the world stage,\u201d Quadri said. <\/p>\n<div class=\"ad-align-none\">\n<div class=\"gcol\">\n<div class=\"widget widget_guardian_ad_widget\">\n<div class=\"ad-section\">\n<div id='gdn-dfp-5' class='dfp-ad ad-container'><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Follow Us<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/sport\/ive-lost-motivation-to-play-tennis-in-nigeria-quadri-says\/\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oyinlomo QuadriOyinlomo Quadri, one of Nigeria\u2019s top female tennis players, says she has lost both the passion and motivation to play in tennis tournaments organised in the country.Quadri who spoke to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja said she needed time to reflect on her performance and re-examine her goals and priorities.NAN reports [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":752,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v21.5 (Yoast SEO v25.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>I&#039;ve lost motivation to play tennis in Nigeria, Quadri says - Guardian Nigeria - City Watch<\/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:\/\/citywatch.ng\/?p=751\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"I&#039;ve lost motivation to play tennis in Nigeria, Quadri says - Guardian Nigeria City Watch\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I&#039;ve lost motivation to play tennis in Nigeria, Quadri says - Guardian Nigeria City Watch %\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/citywatch.ng\/?p=751\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"City Watch\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/web.facebook.com\/profile.php?id=100083282987806\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-05-28T18:10:02+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/citywatch.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/wp-header-logo-178.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1280\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Editor\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Editor\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/citywatch.ng\/?p=751#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/citywatch.ng\/?p=751\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Editor\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/citywatch.ng\/#\/schema\/person\/6f3e02bc6483df72f5abc6e9624d0cc8\"},\"headline\":\"I&#039;ve lost motivation to play tennis in Nigeria, Quadri says &#8211; 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