Offiong Edem on Sunday become the 3rd Nigerian to clash out of the desk tennis match on the Paris 2024 Olympics, following a 4-0 defeat to Brazil’s Bruna Takahashi within the girls’s singles Spherical of 64.
Edem’s go got here at the heels of Quadri Aruna and Olajide Omotayo’s losses on Saturday, either one of whom had been despatched packing from the contest.
Month Aruna and Omotayo controlled to clinch a minimum of one i’m ready of their encounters, Takahashi proved too ambitious for Edem, securing a straight-sets victory: 11-8, 11-4, 13-11, 12-10.
Omotayo had kick-started Nigeria’s desk tennis go streak with a 4-1 loss to Iran’s Noshad Alamiyan, in spite of claiming the primary i’m ready.
Aruna’s ouster was once much more dramatic as he squandered a 3-0 manage to undergo a 4-3 defeat by the hands of 19-year-old Romanian Eduard Ionescu.
Nigeria’s utmost hope within the desk tennis match, Fatimo Bello, is about to stand Jia Nan Yuan on Monday within the girls’s singles Spherical of 64 at her maiden Olympics look.
Edem’s removing marked the 3rd setback for Nigeria in Sunday’s competitions, following the Tremendous Falcons’ 1-0 loss to global champions Spain and Adam Olaore’s defeat within the boxing heavyweight spherical of 16 to Kazakhstan’s Aibek Oralbay.
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