Quadri Aruna
Paris 2024: Aruna, Omotayo crash out of men’s table tennis
Nigeria’s players in the men’s table tennis event of the ongoing Olympic Games on Saturday lost their matches in the first round of the competition.
Quadri Aruna lost 3-4 in his round of 64 match at the South Paris Arena to Eduard Ionescu of Romania.
Aruna’s hopes of repeating his Rio 2016 quarter-finals performance went up in flames when the 20-year-old Ionescu made it a thrilling Olympic debut for himself.
He rallied back to win with an 8-11 9-11 6-11 11-8 12-10 11-9 13-11 scoreline, despite having played a match earlier in the day.
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The Nigerian won the first three games —- 11-8 11-9 11-6 —- only for Ionesco to turn the match on its head by winning the next two games —- 11-8 12-10—- to take the match to seven games.
His opponent then won 11-9 13-11 to take the match and head to the round of 32.
Earlier in the day, Olajide Omotayo lost 1-4 to Iranian Noshad Alamiyan.
The result meant that both Nigerians are out of the men’s singles event of the competition.
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