Nigeria's international table tennis player, Seun Ajetunmobi and Funka Hassan, have emerged the winners in the Men's and Women's Singles of the Victory Table Table Tennis Championship organised by the Lagos State Sports Table Tennis Association.
The one day tournament which came to a close on Tuesday at the Mobolaji Johnson Sportshall, Rowe Park, Yaba, saw Ajetunmobi, who plays professional tabletennis inPortugal, berating a home based ping ponger, Olabisi Yussuf, from Ogun State.
Ajetunmobi, who defeated Adeyinka Ahmed-Taiwo in the Men's Singles semi clash by 11- 7, 12- 10, 11 - 6, humilated Olabisi Yusuf who crushed Dotun Aiyelumo, to reach the final by three set to, 11- 7, 11 - 6,6 - 11, 11 -7.
Funke Hassan, who outplayed Sidikat Yakubu by three set to one to book a date with Bose Odusanya whom she beat by three straight set of 11 - 7, 11- 7, 11 -8, in the semi final before she square up with Yetunde Thompson in the final.
Thompson, who also, Yusuf Modinat and Aminat Fashola in semi final by three set to one, 9 - 11, 11 - 7, 11 - 2, 12 - 10, to confront Funka Hassan who whipped her by threeset to one, 9 - 11, 11 - 8, 11 - 8, 11 - 4.
To their efforts, Ajetunmobi and Hassan were honoured with a cash prize of fifteen thousand naira each coupled with table tennis kits as the second place players smiled home with Eight thousand naira each while joint third ping pongers got two thousand naira each.
As part of efforts to encourage the state's ping pongers to work hard to win majr tournaments, the association rewarded all the ping pongersthat were eliminated in the quarter final statge in the Men's and Women's Singles events.
Chairman of the Association,Olumuyiwa Noah, said the tournament which was in honour of Governor Babatund Raji Fashola and his Deputy, Adejoke Orelope Adefulure, stressing that the tournamnet has enabled the association to discover two young female ping pongers who would be groomed to represent the state in future tournaments.
While speaking, the former Gunsa Table Tennis player in Portugal, who commended the Association's Chairman,OLumuyiwa Noah, for deem it fit to sponsor the event, urged corporate bodies and sports philantrophists to support the association's quest to add value to the sport through regular tournaments.
He observed that Nigerian table tennis players have the basic skillsbut there is need for a regulat table tennis league where the athletes would have opportunity to play on regular basis as the trend would further improve their skills
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