Lagos Table Tennis League In Crucial Stage.

 

 

 

With just a week to the grand finale of the ongoing Lagos State Table Tennis League, teams are now making frantic efforts to make to the last stage of the championship.

 

  Eight men’s teams and four women’s teams are expected to compete in the grand finale in the week eight, which is the finale of the competition.

 

  For now, Union Bank still topped the table in the men and women events while Union Maritime Club and Springfresh are both trailing the bankers’ teams.

 

  Today at the Mobolaji Johnson Sports Complex, Rowe Park in Yaba will today host the week six of the championship with hundreds of players converging to test might with one another.

 

  For Mojeed Olayiwola of Springfresh, beating the Union Bank teams has been a major concern to them.

 

  “I think the Union Bank teams are made up of top players in the national team and it has not been easy playing them. 

 

Even when we beat any of the three teams presented by Union Bank, we will surely face the others in the next stage. For us, Union Bank has been standing between our victories in most of the matches played in the league. 

 

But I am confident that we will overcome them before the grand finale,” Olayiwola said.

 

  The 200 level Computer Science undergraduate of Yaba College of Technology (YABATECH) described the league has encouraging as his game has improved tremendously since the commencement of the championship.

 

  He said: “The league has really helped most of us because before we can be training without taking part in any competition. But with the league, we have really improved in all department of the game and I just hope it will be replicated at national level.”