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El-Salhy: Quadri confirms Africa’s relevance
The President of African Table Tennis Federation Khaled El-Salhy has said that the performance of Nigeria’s Aruna Quadri at the Rio Olympics is a confirmation of Africa’s relevance in global table tennis.
“I must admit that all the African players did their best in the singles, while the extra ordinary outcome was through Aruna Quadri for his superb performance against the top ITTF ranked players like Chinese Taipei’s CHUANG Chih-Yuan and Germany’s Timo BOLL.
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“In my opinion the achievement of Aruna Quadri in Rio will be of great impact to Africa and all players as well as help to break all barriers, raising the ceiling of ambitious player at all World and Olympic title events regardless of their opponents,” the ATTF boss said.
On what young players can emulate from Quadri, he said: “They have to follow the foot step of Aruna Quadri in terms of preparation, dedication in training and with this nothing is impossible.”
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