By Akeem Lawal
After leading Portugal’s Sporting to their first win of
the 2018/2019 European Table Tennis Union (ETTU) Champions League, Africa’s
sole representative at the 2018 ITTF World Cup, Nigeria’s Aruna Quadri has
arrived Paris, France, in readiness for the three-day tournament which serves
off on Friday October 19.
Sportsbiz247.blogspot.com reports that Quadri was accompanied to France by his wife and three children.
The $250,000 prize money championship will have 20 best
players in the world competing to share from the prize money and also amass
ranking points.
Quadri, who made the final cut based on his world
ranking, will start his campaign from the first round where 12 players will be
drawn into four groups of three players in each group.
The top two players in
each group join the already seeded eight players to compete in the knockout
round on October 20, while the final holds on October 21.
The 2018 ITTF African Champion was in high spirit for the
tournament and he is eager to reenact the feat that saw him becoming the first
African to make it to the quarterfinal stage of the championship with his
superlative outing at the 2014 edition in Dusseldorf, Germany.
A determined Quadri said he is looking forward to a good draw with the aim of
advancing to the knockout round. “I am here to perform like every other player
and I am in good shape after the last weekend’s win in the Champions League.
Every player competing in the World Cup, are potential champions and I am
looking forward to give my best again and hope for the best against the best in
the world,” Quadri said.
The draws for the first round of the World Cup holds on
Thursday October 18 at the Disney Event Arena in Chessy, a suburb in the east
of Paris, France.
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