Nigeria’s top ranked player, Aruna
Quadri, has moved up seven places in the latest International Table Tennis
Federation, ITTF, ranking released yesterday.
Quadri gained 23 points from his
victory in the men’s singles of the Polish Open in Poland as well as
claiming some points from his qualification to the main draw at the ITTF World
Cup in Liege, Belgium in the month of October.
According to ITTF, Quadri had 2434 points
from the previous month, and moved from 36th to 27th in the ranking for
November with 2457 points.
Despite Quadri’s rise, Egypt’s Omar
Assar remains the top ranked African table tennis player after he moved a step
up from 21 to 20.
China’s Ma Long remains the World’s
number one player despite losing to second ranked Timo Boll in the semi-final
of the ITTF World Cup while winner of the 2017 ITTF World Cup, Germany’s
Dimitrij Ovtcharov achieved the biggest ranking in his career after moving a
step up to third spot in the latest ranking.
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