After a disappointing start in the French League, Nigeria’s Aruna Quadri will this week return to the ITTF World Tour in Warsaw, Poland.
Last week, Quadri could not save his French team, Morez from losing 4-0 to Chartres AS in the elite league of the French table tennis league.
Although, Quadri admitted that it was not an easy match against their star-studded opponents, He as promised that they would surely bounce back from the defeat.
However, the 2014 ITTF Star Player, who has been nominated for the Sports Man of the year at the 2015 Nigerian Sports Award has been listed among the 32 players seeded for this week’s ITTF World Tour holding in Poland.
Quadri is seeded number 25 and he will start his campaign from the main draw of the men’s singles of the five-day tournament.
In the men’s doubles, the Nigerian will partner his continental arch-rival and friend, Egypt’s Omar Assar. Assar has also been seeded 21 in the men’s singles of the competition, which serves off on Wednesday October 21.
Meanwhile, Egypt’s Assar has failed in his bid to equal Quadri’s record at the ITTF World Cup.
The Egyptian, who was Africa’s representative at the 2015 ITTF World Cup in Sweden failed to go beyond the second round of the championship at the weekend in the city of Halmstad, Sweden.
Having managed to qualify from the group, Assar was unlucky to be set up against World Champion, China’s Ma Long. The African champion tried to put up a good fight against the Chinese but the pace of the Asian was too much for him as he surrendered 4-1 to exit the ITTF World Cup in the second round (Round of 16), which was below Quadri’s quarterfinal berth at the 2014 edition held in Dusseldorf, Germany.
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