Highest-ranked Nigerian table tennis player, Aruna Quadri, lost the men’s singles final of the Table Tennis event of the 2024 African Games to arch rival Omar Assar in Acrra, Ghana, on Tuesday.
Quadri lost 4-3 to the Egyptian to settle for silver, Nigeria’s second medal at the Games, after Offiong Edem had earlier claimed bronze in the women’s singles event on Tuesday.
Quadri, who is making his fourth appearance at the Games in Accra since his debut at the 2011 edition in Maputo, Mozambique has never won an African Games Gold medal.
In Maputo, he reached the semi-finals and eventually finished fourth, while at the 2015 edition in Brazzaville, Congo, he qualified for his first-ever final in the men’s singles event but lost the pulsating final 4-3 to Assar.
