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Quadri, Ola emerge as top seeds for Nigeria Open
2014 ITTF Star Player, Aruna Quadri, leads other Nigeria players as world table tennis ruling body on Wednesday unveiled the seeding list that will compete at the ITTF Premier Lotto Nigeria Open.
Quadri is followed by Africa’s most decorated table tennis player, Segun Toriola who is the first African athlete to be competing in seven Olympic Games.
Other Nigerians on the 16-man seeding list are Portugal-based Bode Abiodun and Ojo Onaolapo, who were rated sixth and 11th respectively.
Finland’s Benedek Olah is number three, while 2014 runner’s up; Egypt’s El-Sayed Lashin is number fourth on the seeding list.
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Other players that made it to the seeding are Slovakia’s Thomas Keinath, Iran’s Afshin Noroozi, Portugal’s Diogo Chen, Egypt’s Khalid Assar, Congo Brazzaville’s Saka Suraju, Mexico’s Salvador Uribe, Egypt’s Shady Magdy, Morocco’s Mounaim Tirselt, Romania’s Alin Spelbus and Ghana’s Felix Lartey.
Defending champion, Portugal’s Jieni Shao led the women’s seeding list followed by two-time winner of the ITTF World Tour, Hungary’s Szandra Pergel.
Congo Brazzaville’s Han Xing is third while Romania’s Irina Ciobanu and Russia’s Olga Kulikova are fourth and fifth respectively.
The two Nigerians that made the eight-man seeding list for women are Edem Offiong and Olufunke Oshonaike who are seeded sixth and seventh respectively while 2010 African champion, Cameroun’s Sarah Hanffou is rated eighth in the seeding list.
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