Mary Udoffa on Sunday emerged as the girls’ singles champion of the Zenith Bank Next Generation Masters following a hard-fought title match against Etoro Bassey of the GEUF Academy in Uyo.

The Lokoja-based winner who, like her opponent, was making her second bid for the crown trailed for most of the match until she squared up at 6-6 in the pro set.

Tied again at 8-8 the match was decided by a 10-point tiebreak which Udoffa won 10- 8. The boys’ title was won by Joseph Jimoh from the Aurum Academy in Abuja who had a pretty straight-forward 9 – 3 pro set victory over Henry Aina from Ondo State.

Aina who had rallied from behind to beat John Peter of Lagos in the semifinals, was out of his depth in the finals trailing 0-4 before getting on the score board.

Jimoh was however to solid to allow another comeback and dropped only two more games before sealing his victory.