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Rio: Oshonaike, others African stars crash out

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It was not a good day for African players competing in the women’s singles of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games as most of them were shown the exit in the first round of the competition at the weekend.
The quartet of Dina Meshref (Egypt), Olufunke Oshonaike (Nigeria), Han Xing (Congo Brazzaville) and Edem Offiong (Nigeria) joined Nadeen El-Dawlatly (Egypt) in the first round.
But they all fell to their opponents in the first round with Dina Meshref losing 4-1 to Thailand’s KOMWONG Nanthana, while Han Xing also surrendered to Thailand’s SAWETTABUT Suthasini  4-3.
Olufunke Oshonaike fell to Puerto Rico’s Adriana Diaz 4-2, while Edem Offiong was edged out by Belarus’ PAVLOVICH Viktoria 4-1. Nadeen El-Dawlatly who unlike others started her campaign in the first round was not match to Hungary’s Petra Lovas 4-0 to exit the singles event.
Oshonaike, who was Team Nigeria’s flagbearer during the opening ceremony admitted after managing to win her preliminary match that, ‘I’m so tired, I don’t know where I am. I didn’t get to bed until after 2.00am in the morning, I feel like a bomb has hit me. Experience got me through today. I could not focus, I could not concentrate but I carried the Nigerian flag.”
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