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Published 3 March 2021
Nigeria’s Quadri Aruna has been pitted against India’s Sathiyan Gnanasekaran in the main draw of the men’s singles of the $200,000 prize money World Table Tennis Middle East Hub in Doha, Qatar.
Senegal’s Ibrahima Diaw failed to join Aruna in the main draw as he was beaten by Japan’s Masataka Morizono 3-1 (11-5, 11-6, 7-11, 12-10).
Tokyo 2020 Olympics-bound Diaw fought his way to the fourth stage of the preliminary but the southpaw Japanese was too much for the African.
On Monday, Nigerian Olajide Omotayo, Egypt’s Omar Assar, Ahmed Saleh, Mohammed El-Beiali and Khaled Assar were all shown the exit door in the first and second stages of the preliminaries.
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Olajide Omotayo has set a new African record at the first official World Table Tennis (WTT) events after the 2019 African Games champion became the first Nigerian and African to win a match at the WTT Middle East Hub holding in Doha, Qatar.
Omotayo who is competing in his first international tournament after qualifying for the Tokyo Olympic Games at Tunis in February 2020 began his campaign from the preliminary alongside other African players from Egypt and Algeria.
Pitched against Kazakhstan’s Alan Kurmangaliyev in the first round of the preliminary and the Nigerian showed his stuff against the European to become the only African player to record a victory on the opening day of the tournament taking place at the Lusail Sports Arena in Doha in Doha.
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2019 African Games Champion, Olajide Omotayo, has set a new African record at the first official World Table Tennis (WTT) events after emerging the first African to win a match at the WTT Middle East Hub holding in Doha, Qatar.
Omotayo who is competing in his first international tournament after qualifying for the Tokyo Olympic Games in Tunis last year February began his campaign from the preliminary round alongside other African players from Egypt and Algeria.
Drawn against Kazakhstan’s Alan Kurmangaliyev in the first round of the preliminary round, the Nigerian showed his quality against the European to become the only African player to record a victory on the opening day of the tournament taking place at the Lusail Sports Arena in Doha.