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Nigeria, Egypt, two others for ITTF Juniors

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8 years ago

April 25, 2016

The African Table Tennis Federation has confirmed Nigeria, Egypt, Tunisia and Algeria as the continent’s flagbearers at the 2016 ITTF World Junior Championship holding in Cape Town, South Africa in October.

In a statement by the President of ATTF, Khaled El-Salhy, the four teams

confirmed their qualification among the 12 teams that featured at the last

ITTF African Junior & Cadet Championship in Algiers.

Egypt and Nigeria will compete in the boys and girls events at the global

tournament while the girls’ team from Algeria and the boys’ team

from Tunisia will join the two continental superpowers at the

tournament holding in November this year.

Aside the four countries that will represent Africa at the championship,

host – South Africa will also be presenting its boys and girls teams for

the competition.

Also, the continental body named the eight-man team that will constitute African team for the 2016 World Cadet Challenge in China.

The team is dominated by players from Egypt, Tunisia and

Algeria, while Nigeria and Congo Brazzaville completed the list.

Cadet champions – Egypt’s duo of Marwan Abdelwahab and Rinad Fathy top the list. Others are Tunisia’s pair of Aboubaker Bourass and Manel Baklouti as well as Algeria’s Malissa Nasri and Abdelbasset Chaichi. Other are Nigeria’s Esther Oribamise and Congo Brazzaville’s Regis Kiassi.

The ITTF World Cadet Challenge holds on October 21 to 29.

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