Paris 2024: Aruna Quadri Faces Tough Route, As Omotayo, Offiong Also Gets Difficult Opponents

Paris 2024: Aruna Quadri Faces Tough Route, As Omotayo, Offiong Also Gets Difficult Opponents

Sampson Adedeji 

The draw for the table tennis events of the Paris Olympics has been conducted and it was the tough route for Team Nigeria, BSNSports.com.ng reports.

Nigeria's top star Aruna Quadri was drawn bye for the Opening Round but handed a tough opposition in the Round 64 against Romania's Edouard Lonescu.

Aruna and Lonescu have met once, and that was during the semi-finals of the European Champions League, in which the Romanian defeated Aruna 3-2, and Paris 2024 will be their second meeting in any competition.

Olajide Omotayo, has a tough duel against Iran’s Noshad Alamiyan in the first round of men’s singles in the table tennis while Offiong Edem will lock horns against Brazil’s Bruna Takahashi and debutant Fatimo Bello will face a Herculean task against the Chinese-born French star Jia Nana Yuan in the first round of the Women’s Singles.

If Aruna scale the hurdle he will face world number one Wang Wang Chuqin in the Round of 32.