Atinuke Olaide Taces Tough Challlenges In Asoju Oba Table Tennis Championship.

All the Singles events in the ongoing 42nd edition of the Asoju Oba Table Tennis Championship will be played on Thursday as all the Doubles events were decided yesterday at the Sir Molade Okoya Thomas Indoor Sportshall, Teslim Balogun Stadium.

The defending champion of the Women's Singles, Atinuke Olaide, Idris Morufat, Ganiyat Olatunde, Tolu Durosimi Etti, Fatomi Bello, Anu Ajuwon and Rasheedat Ogundele adre through to the quarter final.

Gbenga Ajulo who walked over Lanre Jegede, Ahmed Adeyinka, Mojeed Olayiwola, Ganiyu Ashimiiyu, Kazeem Adeniyi and Saman Abdulahi have also qualified for the quarter final of the Men's Singles event.

In some of the Doubles events decided yesterday,the duo of Gbenga Ajulo and Rasheedat Ogundele beat the pair of Ganiyu Ashimiyu and Ganiya Olatunde by two straigt set to win the event.

The combined efforts of Quazeem Quadri and Nimota Aregbesola outclassed Raji Azeez and Odusanya Bose, 11 - 6, 11 - 13, 15 - 12, 11 - 6.

In the Cadet Mixed Doubles, Qudus Surmer and Zainab Surmer defeated the duo of Olaniyi Muheez and Alimot Ayinla while Zainab Surmer and Ayinal Alimot beat the pair of Adegoke Dolapo and Willougby Isiwat.

The tournament will come to an end tommorow at the Sir Molade Okoya Thomas Indoor Sportshall, Teslim Balogun Stadium.

Meanwhile,an Unseeded Women's Singles table tennis player, Ayo Udoh, has attributed fatigue as the major reason she lost her first game to the tournament's defending champion, Atinuke Olaide in the ongoing Asoju Oba Table Tennis Championship.

Udoh, 16 year old and a pupil of Anthony Village Senior High School, said she was tired when the game was three set apiece as Atinuke Olaide took advantage of it to end the game 4 set to 3.

Udoh, a member of Summer Table Tennis Club, Shomolu, was optimistic that she could beat Olaide when next she meet her in subsequent table tennis tourney as she had trained hard to face strong opposition during he event.

According to her, Olaide was shocked when she proved stubborn to her bid to win the game so as to qualify for the quarter final, adding that Aruna Quadri who plays professional table tennis in Portugal was his model based on the manner he plays.