Lagos Governor's Tennis Cup.
On a day Enosoregbe was celebrating his birthday, his dream to make it to the quarter-final of the International Tennis Federation-sanctioned tournament was dashed, as he could not finish the second round, second leg (Futures 6) match played at the Lagos Lawn Tennis Club, Onikan.
Injury forced the Edo State-born player, who turned 27 On Wednesday, to retire in the second set of the men's singles with score at 0-4 after the Tunisian had claimed a 6-3 victory in the first set.
Enosoregbe received plaudits from a handful of spectators at the arena for his heroics after he could not continue with the match.
The wildcard entrant had last week in the first leg (Futures 5) created an upset when he defeated eight seed, Maciej Smola of Poland, before he lost to Indian Sasi Kumar Mukund in the quarter-final.
Enosoregbe also on Monday in the Futures 6 created another upset as he sent number seven seed, Benin Republic's Alexis Klegou packing, before he bowed to Tunisian Moez.
Also on Wednesday, other Nigerian players in the competition crashed out of the men's singles as Thomas Otu lost 6-2, 6-2 to Maciej Smola of Poland, while Joseph Imeh Ubon was beaten 6-3, 6-2 by Boy Westerhof from The Netherlands.
Sylvester Emmanuel lost 6-4, 6-4 to Enrique Lopez-Perez of Spain as another homeboy,
Mohammed Mohammed lost to Indian Sasi Kumar Mukund 6-2, 6-0.
Also, no Nigerian player is left in the women's singles event of the tournament introduced in 2000.
It will be recalled that Sule Ladipo won the 2001 edition, while Michael Moses became the second Nigerian to win the men's singles of the tournament in 2014.
In the women's singles, Osaro Amadin remains the only Nigerian to have won the competition in 2000, while Sarah Adegoke finished as runner up in the 2014 edition after losing to Zarah Razafinmahatratra of Madagascar.
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Caption: Clifford Enosoregbe, fails to make it to the quarter-final this time.
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