Nigeria’s Aruna Quadri defeated Egypt’s Omar Assar to clinch his second continental title in the men’s singles of the 2022 International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) African championship.
Aruna Quadri was trailing 2-0 down, then 3-1 down to 4-3 win, Quadri made a massive comeback to defeat Egypt’s Omar Assar 4-3 to win the men’s singles title at the 2022 ITTF Africa Senior Championship.
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The Nigerian legend trailed Omar in the first two sets of the highly-anticipated encounter between both arch-riva but came back stronger to beat the seven times gold medalist to the Africa Championship title which took in Algeria.
Aruna Quadri won this same tournament in 2018, with his last two encounters ending in defeats at the hands of Egypt’s Assar.
The 2022 ITTF Africa Senior Championship tournament started on Saturday, September 3, and ended on Friday, September 9.
