ITTF Nigeria Open: Quadri seeded no.1, Oshonaike in top 10

The International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) has unveiled the seeding list for the 2018 ITTF Challenge Seamaster Nigeria Open.

Nigeria’s Aruna Quadri was seeded number one in the Men’s singles category, while Olufunke Oshonaike made the number eight seeding in the Women’s singles category.

169 players made up of 108 men and 61 women from 27 countries will be competing at the $46,000 prize money championship which is the second highest prize money among the nine ITTF Challenge Series.

The competition, which kicks off on August 8 to 12, will be staged at the Molade Okoya-Thomas Hall of Teslim Balogun Stadium in Lagos.

32 players made the seeding in the Men’s singles category, and behind Quadri, who is the highest ranked player in the competition, is Russia’s Alexey Liventsov seeded number two.

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The rest of the top ten in the category include: Finalnd’s Benedek Olah (3), Brazil’s Thiago Monteiro (4), England’s Samuel Walker (5), France’s Alexandre Robinot (6), Argentina’s Horacio Cifuentes (7), Hungary’s Tamas Lakatos (8), Scotland’s Gavin Rumgay (9) and Thailand’s Supanut Wisutmaythangkoon (10).

For the women’s singles, Thailand’s Suthasini Sawettabut was seeded as number one, as 2016 Champion – Hungary’s Szandra Pergel was seeded number two.

In 3to 10 are: Italy’s Giorgia Piccolin (3), Luxembourg’s Sarah De Nutte (4), Italy’s Debora Vivarelli (5), Slovenia’s Alex Galic (6), Colombia’s Paula Medina (7), Nigeria’s Oshonaike (8), Norway’s Ilka Doval (9) and Egypt’s Yousra Helmy (10).

In the U-21 categories, defending champion in the men – Romania’s Rares Sipos is the number one while Norway’s Ilka Doval in the number one seed in the women.

2018 African Youth Games bronze medalist, Esther Oribamise is the one Nigerian listed in the top eight players seeded in the women’s U-21.

Three Nigerian players – Rilwan Akanbi, Nurudeen Hassan and Joshua Oladiran made the seeding list in the men’s U-21.

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