Union Bank Table Tennis Club Top Oniru Table Tennis League.

Union Bank table tennis club have emerged the overall winner of the maiden edition of Oba Idowu Abiodun Oniru Lagos State Table Tennis League which came to a close on Thursday at the Mobolaji Johnson Sportshall, Rowe Park, Yaba.

The duo of Ashimiyu and Shola Oyetayo of Union Bank table tennis club defeated Ahmed Adeyinka and Mojeed Olayiwola of SpringFresh table tennis club by three straight set in the team event which comprises of doubles and singles event.

Ashimiyu and Oyetayo who outplayed the duo of Kazeem Adeniyi and Dotun Ayelumo of Union Bank table tennis club had won the weekly event for a period of five weeks before wrapping it up with Thursday's victory as they went hom with the sum of fifty thousand Naira as Adeniyi and  Ayelumo settled for Thirty thousand Naira.

In the Women event, Rashidat Ogundele and Fatima Bello of Union Bank Table Tennis Club defeated the duo of Atinuke Olaide an Ganiyat Ogundele who play professional ping pong in Europe by three set to two to grab fifty thousand Naira.

Speaking with Sportsweight.blogspot.com, Oyetayo, said the weekly competition was the tonic Lagos State Table Tennis players need to perform better at the EKO 2012 Games,stressing that the tournament had elevtaed thestatus of the sport in Lagos State as most of the players have step up their style of play making them medal prospoedt athletes ahead of the Games in November, 2012.

Nigeria's Professional table tennis player, Atinuke Olaide, who plays in Ponta Do Pargo, a Portuguese Division One team, said she was impressed with the performance of the state's female ping pongers in the tournament and it is an indication that they are on the verge of clinching the medals at stake in the sport.