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The Nigeria Table Tennis Federation (NTTF) has named a 10-man team for this month’s International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) World Junior Circuit (WJC) holding in Cairo, Egypt.
The team will be led by African Youth Games champion, Olasunkanmi Oginni as well as national junior champion, Esther Oribamise.
Others in the boys’ team are Lagos Open revealation, Nurudeen Hassan; national junior champion, Amadi Omeh; cadet champion, Abayomi Animasahun as well as southpaw Michael Obayomi.
For the girls’ team, Oribamise will be joined by Ajoke Ojomu, Alimot Ayinla, Vivian Oku and cadet champion, Muibat Bello.
The team is at present tuning up for the competition at the National Stadium in Surulere under the watchful eyes of Italy-based Michael Oyebode and Bode Ajayi.
The team is expected to depart aboard an Egypt Airline flight on Sunday June 7, 2015.
Over 14 countries including Nigeria will compete at the one-week tournament holding at the ultra modern October 6 Hall in Giza, Cairo.
Other teams expected at the championship, which serves off on Monday June 8 are Algeria, Botswana, India, Iraq, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar, Romania, Slovakia, Togo, Tunisia and host – Egypt.
The maiden edition of the end-of-the-year Nigeria Table Tennis Federation (NTTF) organized top 16 Championship tagged President’s Cup serves off today (Wednesday) December 17 at the Molade Okoya Thomas Hall of Teslim Balogun Stadium.
The N2m prize money two-day tournament has players within and outside the country competing for top spot.
Over 48 matches will be played with foreign-based duo of Seun Ajetunmobi and Olaide Atinuke competing against local stars like Rashidat Ogundele, Kazeem Makanjuola as well as junior sensations – Tosin Oribamise, Ajoke Ojomu, Alimot Ayinla and Onyinyechi Mbah taking part in the championship.
The matches will be played in a round robin format with the top two players progressing to the next stage of the championship. The top eight players will also be drawn into two groups of four each with the top two advancing to the semifinal stage.
Every player listed for the competition will be rewarded with cash while the star prize is N250, 000. For the award, the player of the year as well as the young player of the year will be honoured at the colourful event in the presence of dignitaries.
As part of its efforts to inspire the players to aim higher, eight awards will be handed out to deserving individuals in 2014. These awards are senior player of the year (male and female), junior player of the year (male and female), cadet player of the year (male and female), coach of the year and technical official of the year.
As part of efforts to reward players, coaches and officials in 2014, eight awards have been listed by the Nigeria Table Tennis Federation (NTTF) during the end-of-the-year top 16 tournament tagged President’s Cup.
The two-day tournament has players home and abroad competing for the N2m prize money at stake.
Eight awards will be handed out to deserving individuals in 2014 and the awards are:
senior player of the year (male and female)
junior player of the year (male and female)
cadet player of the year (male and female)
coach of the year and technical official of the year.
In a release by the organizers, foreign-based duo of Seun Ajetunmobi and Olaide Atinuke have been listed among the top 16 players expected to feature at the tournament holding at the Molade Okoya-Thomas Hall of Teslim Balogun Stadium.
Also, Lagos Classics champion, Cecilia Otu-Akpan will also be part of the tournament while former junior national champion, Janet Effiom will be competing against other top players in the competition.
Also, four junior players – Tosin Oribamise, Ajoke Ojomu, Alimot Ayinla and Onyinyechi Mbah will be battling for the top spot against senior players at the championship.
In the list of participants released at the weekend by the organizers, the quartet who just returned from the just concluded World Junior Championship in China has been drawn against some top players in their various groups.
Oribamise, whose performance this year has been encouraging at national level, will battle for the two slots in the group alongside, Portugal-based Atinuke, Bose Odusanya, Kehinde Akinyinka and former Asoju Oba champion, Tolu Durosimi-Etti.
One of the most improved players for this year, Ayinla will confront former junior champion, Janet Effiom, Fatimo Kazeem and Aminat Fashola. Ayinla’s form has made her one of the formidable players that may be promoted to the senior level.
Abuja-based Ojomu will clash against Lagos Classics champion, Cecilia Otu-Akpan, Taiwo Williams and Moji Ajibike.
In her group, Mbah has been handed the toughest task as she will slug it out with 2014 Asoju Oba Cup champion, Fatimo Bello; National Sports Festival champion, Rashidat Ogundele, Funke Hassan and returnee, Halimat Hussein.
The matches will be played in a round robin format with the top two players progressing to the next stage of the championship. The top eight players will also be drawn into two groups of four each with the top two advancing to the semifinal stage.
Every player listed for the competition will be rewarded with cash while the star prize is N250, 000. For the award, the player of the year as well as the young player of the year will be honoured at the colourful event in the presence of dignitaries.
With the dominance of Egypt unabated at the ongoing International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF)-sanctioned African Junior Championship, Nigeria on Thursday picked silver and bronze in the team events of the competition.
The tournament holding in Cairo has more than 10 countries from the continent taking part with the host – Egypt claiming the top spot in all the events.
In the teams’ event of the junior and cadet divisions, Egypt won all the gold medals at stake leaving two silver medals for Nigeria in the girls’ category while Nigeria also settled for bronze in the mixed doubles.
To pick silver, Nigeria fell 3-1 to Egypt in the final of the junior girls’ team event, while the Nosiru Bello-tutored side also conceded defeat to the Egyptians in the cadet girls with same margin.
Another opportunity for Nigeria to play in the final was also denied, when the quartet of Esther Tosin Oribamise and Olasunkanmi Oginni as well as Ajoke Ojomu and Joseph Osendukwu failed to run over the Egyptians in the semifinal of the mixed doubles event.
In the doubles event, Nigeria could not move beyond the quarterfinal stage as the Egyptians again stopped them from advancing.
On the medal table so far, Nigeria is still playing second fiddle to Egypt and they are closely followed by Tunisia and Congo Brazzaville.
A table tennis analyst however was not surprised with the outcome of proceedings at the tournament, saying, ‘The Egyptians are just reaping the result of investing in youth development.”
“As long as I will want to commend the present board of the Nigeria Table Tennis Federation (NTTF) with their efforts to focus on grassroots, I want to say that what we are witnessing in Egypt is as a result of the long years of neglect of youth development by previous boards of NTTF. What Egypt is achieving today in table tennis is not magic but conscious and sincere efforts to groom talents that will rule the game. So for us, we are not dazed by the performance of the country and we just hope that NTTF will remain focus and continue with what they are doing,” he said.
Meanwhile, the singles event served off on Thursday with the preliminary matches while the finals of all the singles will climax the competition, which ends today in Cairo.
Again the battle for supremacy between Nigeria and Egypt came to fore at the ongoing International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF)-sanctioned African Junior Championship as Team Nigeria clash against Team Egypt in the girls’ final.
However, Congo Brazzaville prevented Nigeria from playing in the final of the boys’ event after the Congolese beat Olasunkanmi Oginni-led team to secure a spot ahead of Nigeria in the last four of the event.
Also in the boys’ cadet division, Nigeria failed to advance to the last four following the inability of the team to beat Congo Brazzaville in the group game concluded on Tuesday.
Unlike their male counterpart, the trio of Tosin Esther Oribamise, Ajoke Ojomu and Alimot Ayinla ensured that their place in the final was not usurped as they defeated Algeria 3-0 in the semifinal after coming second behind Egypt in Group One. Egypt also walloped Tunisia 3-0 to set up another encounter against Nigeria in the final of the junior event.
In the girls’ cadet event, the Nigeria managed a 3-2 win over Algeria while Egypt had no problem beating Tunisia 3-0 to confront Nigeria in another final.
Meanwhile, the doubles and singles events will commence on Wednesday, as all eyes will be on Egypt, Nigeria, Congo Brazzaville and Tunisia.
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