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Segun Toriola begins Olympic campaign today

tvceadmin — Sat, 06 Aug 2016 02:36:14 +0000

Nigeria’s veteran player, Segun Toriola begins his campaign in the men’s singles of the table tennis event on Saturday in the first round.

Toriola will be making his seventh appearance at the games will know his opponent after the preliminary rounds on Friday.

But his compatriot and Africa’s highest ramked player at the Games, Aruna Quadri got a bye into round 2.

In the women’s singles, Team Nigeria flag bearer and assistant captain, Funke Oshonaike, will face Mariana Sahakian from Libya in the preliminary round while Edem Offiong will do battle against Sally Yee from Fiji.

The table tennis events at this year’s games take off on Saturday.

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Nigeria to compete at World Team Championship in Tunisia

tvceadmin — Tue, 19 Apr 2016 00:27:43 +0000

The International Tennis Federation (ITF) has listed Nigeria among the four teams that will compete at the qualifiers for the World Team Championship in Tunisia, following the country’s impressive showing at the last African Junior Championship in South Africa.

In the boys’ U-14 qualifiers, Nigeria will compete against Seychelles, Mauritius and host, Tunisia with the top 2 teams qualifying for the ITF World Team Championship in Spain.

For the girls’ U-14, Tunisia will battle for the two slots with South Africa, Burundi and Egypt. The clay courts of La Marsa in Tunis will host the qualifiers from June 3rd to 9th.

In the Junior Davis’ Cup qualifiers for U-16 boys and girls, Tunisia will battle South Africa, Egypt, Morocco, Ivory Coast, Mauritius and Burundi.

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Nigeria set for ITTF Junior Circuit event

tvceadmin — Wed, 16 Mar 2016 01:01:26 +0000

Nigeria have named a team of four players to the 2016 International Table Tennis Federation Junior Circuit holding in Egypt from March 23 to 27.

The Nigeria Table Tennis Federation on Tuesday released the list of players headed by national cadet champion, Abayomi Animasahun. The other players in the team are Azeez Solanke, Sunday Akomolafe and Amadi Omeh. Animasahun was a part of the ITTF Hopes Team to the 2015 ITTF World Cadet Challenge in Egypt and will return there for a chance at the cadet title.

Nigeria is expected to compete in the cadet and junior events with the team which will be coached by Dotun Omoniyi.

The NTTF said the federation’s determination to expose the younger players to world-class tournaments informed the country’s participation in the competition. The tournament, which is tagged the Egypt Junior and Cadet Open, is one of the ITTF Junior Circuits and will feature over 250 players across the world.

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Table Tennis: Segun Toriola qualifies for 7th Olympic Games

tvceadmin — Fri, 19 Feb 2016 01:22:55 +0000

TVC E. Nigeria’s giant strides Toriola sealed his place at the Rio 7th Olympics games after recording a big win in his qualification event held Thursday in Khartoum, Sudan, in Table Tennis.

He has again been affirmed with the heroic feat by former Africa’s number table tennis player.

The vastly experienced Nigeria table tennis player defeated Mawussi Agbetoglo of Togo by four straight sets of 11-7, 12-10, 11-9, 11-6.

Toriola’s impending appearance at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games will be the most by an African athlete.

After achieving the feat, the four-time All-African Games champion, who made his Olympic debut at the 1992 Barcelona Olympic Games, said he was excited about the achievement as he never thought he could be playing in as much as seven Olympic Games in his career.

Toriola, who is honoured that he made history as the first African athlete to achieve such feat, said it was by no easy feat qualifying for the Games in Rio since he was playing under pressure, adding that as the tournament’s favourite, he was being cautious since most of the ping-pongers wanted to defeat him.

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