Main Draw Serves Off At ITTF Lagos World Tour

With the conclusion of the preliminaries, the main draw of the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF)
Lagos World Tour serves off on Tuesday June 24 at the Molade Okoya-Thomas Hall of Teslim Balogun
Stadium in Lagos, Nigeria.

The top two players from each group are expected to progress to the main draw with matches starting in the U-21 event early on Tuesday.

With all the players already in Lagos for the four-day tournament, the Egypt’s eight-man team had their first training session on Monday with all eyes on African Champion, Egypt’s Omar Assar who had said that he is in Lagos to enjoy himself.

For Italy’s based Olajide Omotayo, making it to the main draw of the Under 21 event was not an easy task after managing a scrappy victory over Azeez Ogunlade.

 “I started the match badly because I just arrived from my base in Italy. But I started picking up during the second game. Also, my opponent is a familiar foe and it was so easy for me to overcome him. I am looking forward to a good outing in the tournament especially with the quality atmosphere in place,” Omotayo said.