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Table Tennis Gives Me Life - Aruna Quadri


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World T/Tennis Day: Table Tennis Gives Me Life

By Sampson Adedeji

Every 6th of April is considered as the World Table Tennis day and 2020 was no different despite corona virus issues which ravaged most sporting activities.

Its a day every table tennis players all over the celebrate and narrate their individual experience in the course of their choosing career, BSN reports.

Nigeria table tennis sensation, Aruna Quadri was not left out in this edition as mentioned how the game changed his life.

"Table tennis has given me life, it has given me almost everything I want, and has changed my life positively,” he said in a video posted by ITTF Africa to mark the day.

Quadri became the first African to reach the Olympic quarter final, when he qualified for the last eight at Rio 2016 Olympic in Brazil.

He won a silver medal at the 2018 Commonwealth Games in Australia..

Quadri is presently the highest ranked African with 18th position.

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Niyi Busari

Award winning journalist, Niyi Busari, the Publisher and CEO of BSN Sports Concepts is one of the most celebrated Nigerian sports journalist of his generation. A"cross-over" professional, he combines the talents and abilities of a print and electronic journalist in a manner that is rare, even though his specialization is print. A graduate of Economics from the University of Abuja where he obtained his Bachelor Degree in 2015.

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