Nigeria Table Table Federation, NTTF, is optimistic that Nigeria;s
table tennis team will register the nation's name of the Glasgow
Commonwealth Games medals table by fighting hard to win laurels at the
games as the country has qualified for the round of sixteen in the
Women's and Men's Team table tennis events.
Its
President, Wahid Enitan Oshodi, while speaking on the performance of the
Nigeria's table tennis teams, said the team needed to put in their best
in order to make the nation proud at the Games,stressing that the
distrupted training programmes of the female ping pongers have affected
them especially in their match against India that are among the seeded
nations.
Confident that the male team will go far
in the
tournament following their performance of Nigeria at the last organised
Lagos International Table Tennis Classic, Oshodi, prayed that Nigeria
would not play against Singapore national team who have five Chinese
nationals playing for them, adding that he would prefer a situation
where Nigeria and Singapore meet in the final of the tournament.
He
said the federation's relationship with Joola, one of the world,s
producers of table tennis table tenis equipment, was part of their
Private Partnership deal to drive the growth of table tennis in
Nigeria,adding that the gesture would encourage other prominent makers
of table tennis equipment and private individuals to identify with the
NTTF.
In the matches played today,Nigeria defeated
Narbados by three straight set in the Women's Team event while
the Nigerian male team outplayed Kiribati to scale through to the round
of
sixteen.
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