Rivers Governor’s Badminton Championship serves off Wednesday

Badminton Championship

The maiden edition of Rivers Governor’s Badminton Championship will serve off on Wednesday at the Alfred Diette-Spiff Civic Centre, Port Harcourt.

This will be the first-ever national badminton championship to be held in Port Harcourt Rivers State.

Organisers of the championship, Badminton Federation of Nigeria (BFN), says that the preliminary round will start on Wednesday evening after the managers/technical meeting in the morning.

Registered players arrived at the venue on Tuesday,  while accommodation will be provided for all state accredited players as well as free launch throughout the championship.

Honours will be competed for in Men’s Singles (MS), Women’s Singles (WS), Men’s Doubles (MD), Women’s Doubles (WD) and Mixed Doubles (XD) with no player allowed to feature in more than two events.

An all-time highest total prize money of N7.02million will be competed for in the 4-day event with the winner of the men’s and women’s singles smiling home with N300, 000 each. Cash prizes will also be spread from the second position to the 32nd place finishers for singles and 16th place finishers for doubles and mixed doubles.

The final/closing ceremony takes place on Saturday.

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