Badminton Confederation Africa: Team Nigeria Emerges African Champion.

Badminton Confederation Africa: Team Nigeria Emerges African Champion By Nelly Robinson Nigeria's badminton team on Thursday in Port Harcourt edged out Mauritius to pick the lone ticket meant for one Africa Country scheduled for the Sudirman Cup in China, BSNSports.com.ng can report. The competition is slated for May 19th to 26th christened Badminton World Federation championship. Speaking to journalist immediately after the victory, the elated President of the Federation, Francis Orbih said Nigeria have indeed proved to be the Champions of Africa for the first time in history in the game of Badminton: “We look forward to putting up a better performance, and I can assure you we are not going to be knocked out at the first stage” On their part, the Mauritius players who gave credit to the Nigeria Team as being a better team irrespective of the close tie score 19-21 19-21 (0:45) which ended the decisive match between Anuoluwapo Opeyori paired to Dorcas Adesokan of Nigeria and Julien Paul with Kate Foo Kune of Mauritius in the mixed double. Lubah says “I made some errors, I know this but I know it can be corrected. My fitness was ok, so I have to improve. Nigeria is good and I’m glad my coach gave me the opportunity to defend myself, I’ll like to improve in my shots.” African Champion Kate Foo Kune says although she felt intimidated by the Nigeria crowed of supporters which came out to cheer Deborah her opponent, she was able to focus on the game and that gave her victory “Nigeria is actually playing cleverly, and I think is a very good move” Our dear Adesokan says “we are glad meeting a tough country like Mauritius the confidence was there because of our trainings and camping we knew we were not loosing”. While Opeyori says “this time around, we have broken that record of securing African Championship and this is good”. Earlier on, Aatish Lubah dived it out with Opeyori 11-21 16-21 (0:35) to determine winner Men’s single, Kate Foo Kune took on Deborah Ukeh 21-12 21-16 (0:31) for Women’s Single. Men’s Double saw Aatish Lubah pairing Julien Paul against Clement Krobakpo and Enejo Abah 21-14 16-21 21-11 (0:34), then Aurelie Allet paired Lorna Bodha against Deborah Ukeh and Dorcas Adesokan 8-21 10-21 (0:24) for Women’s Double. With this 2-3 aggregate score also, Nigeria just got a smooth sail to Tokyo 2020 Olympics. Furthermore, Alh. Abubakar Umar Suliaman 111 Mai Bade of Borno, Yobe state a major financier of Badminton Sports in Rivers and Yobe state says he choose Badminton sports because it has no age barrier as against football “I was a football and Hockey players for a while, but coming to Badminton, I discovered I can play this even in my advanced age this why I choose badminton. We are proud of River state Government for the support they are also giving to this game” With the team competition now over, individuals will now compete for supremacy from Friday to terminate on Sunday.