Femi Solaja
Crew Nigeria’s desk tennis gamers, Quadri Aruna, Olajide Omotayo and Offiong Edem joined high gamers within the continent within the quarter finals of the continued thirteenth African Video games going down in Accra, Ghana.
Aruna, Omar Assar, Dina Meshref, Hana Goda all sailed via to the quarterfinal stage of the singles occasion of the continued thirteenth African Video games going down in Accra, Ghana.
Aruna, a two-time silver medalist needed to work arduous to defeat Algeria’s Stephane Quaiche 3-1 in an explosive match on the centre desk.
2015 champion Assar of Egypt wasted no time in dismissing Algeria’s Sami Kherouf 3-0.
Additionally, males’s singles defending champion, Olajide Omotayo of Nigeria, was forward of Tunisia’s Kalil Sta with a commanding 3-0 win.
Congo Brazzaville’s Saheed Idowu ended the dream of Tunisian teenage sensation Wassim Essid with a 3-0 win whereas Egypt’s Mohammed El-Beiali additionally defeated Algeria’s Maheidine Bella 3-0 to hit the final eight.
Khaled Assar of Egypt additionally joined the league of high gamers within the final eight with a dominating 3-0 win Tunisia’s Youssed Ben Attia, whereas Senegal’s Ibrahima Diaw edged out bespectacled Mohammed Shouman 3-1 to qualify for the final eight of the boys’s singles.
The ladies’s singles quarterfinal was dominated by Egypt as Meshref, Yousra Helmy, Hana Goda and Mariam Alhodaby picked their locations within the final eight.
Nigeria’s solely surviving participant Offiong Edem beat Mariam Alhodaby 3-0 whereas Esther Oribamise fell 3-1 to Cameroon’s Sarah Hanffou.
Algeria’s Lucie Mobarek and Lynda Loghraibi additionally sailed via to the quarterfinal.
