After six days of intense training, culminating in a two-day tournament under the guidance of ITTF-certified coaches, the Nigeria Table Tennis Federation (NTTF) has selected eight players—four boys and four girls—to represent Nigeria at the 2025 ITTF Africa Hopes Week and Challenge, scheduled for July in Lagos. The training session, held at the National Training Centre of the National Stadium in Lagos from 2-7 April, saw...
Africa’s top table tennis players, Nigeria's Quadri Aruna and Egyptian Omar Assar have been listed among the top seeds for the 2025 WTT Star Contender Chennai, Afrosport reports. Aruna, Africa's number one ranked player, enters the tournament as the fourth seed, while Assar is behind as the fifth seed. Both Aruna and Assar have received byes to the second round (last 32) in the men’s singles,...
Nigeria’s Quadri Aruna has leapfrogged Egyptian Omar Assar to become Africa’s highest-ranked player in the world following the Week 12 ranking released on Tuesday, Afrosport reports. Aruna, who now sits 18th in the latest International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) World Ranking, moved a spot upward to overtake Assar, who dropped two places to now occupy the 19th position. Albeit finishing as runner-up at the 2025 ITTF...
Nigeria’s Quadri Aruna has exited the 2025 WTT Champions Chongqing in the first round after losing 3-0 to second seed and world No. 2 Wang Chuqin of China on Wednesday, Afrosport reports. In their first-ever competitive meeting, Aruna, who recently finished second at the ITTF Africa Cup in Tunisia, could not handle Wang, with the 24-year-old Chinese breezing past his Nigerian opponent in straight sets. Wang...
The Nigerian duo of Quadri Aruna and Fatimo Bello have fought their way through to the semi-final of the ongoing 2025 ITTF Africa Cup in Tunis, subsequently clinching tickets to the 2025 ITTF World Cup in Macao, Afrosport reports. Defending men's singles champion Aruna eased into the last four in Tunisia by defeating Ivory Coast’s Oba Kizito 4-0 in the quarterfinals on Wednesday, recording scores of...
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