Aruna Quadri crashes out of WTT finals
Aruna Quadri, the Nigerian professional table tennis player, has crashed out of the 2023 World Table Tennis (WTT) men’s finals tournament in Doha.
Nigeria’s top-ranked table tennis player was eliminated at the quarter-final stage on Thursday.
Quadri succumbed to a 3-0 defeat at the hands of Fan Zhedong, the top-ranked table tennis player in the world.
Zedong, representing China, dispatched Quadri 11-6, 11-9, 11-4 under 21 minutes at the Lusail Sports Arena.
Top seed Fan Zhendong did not come to play in the first #WTTFinals Men Quarterfinal 👀
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— World Table Tennis (@WTTGlobal) January 4, 2024
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The Nigerian has never won against Zhendong, the 2021 finals champion.
Aruna also fell at the quarter-final stage of the tournament in 2021.
The Oyo state indigene, ranked 14th in the world, had earlier come from two games down to overcome Brazilian Hugo Calderano in the first round of the 16-man tournament.
Aruna, who recently retained the 2023 ITTF African Championships men’s singles title, was the only African player at the tournament.
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