Even when the Nigerian boys’ team gained one place up in the rating, the girls’ team dropped down by two steps as Japan dethroned China as the champions in the team event of the ITTF World Junior Championship holding in Cape Town, South Africa.
Prior to the commencement of the competition, the Nigerian boys’ team was ranked 18, but with the classification victory over New Zealand at the weekend, they have gained one place in the ranking to move to 17th best in the world junior team ranking.
However, the girls’ team failed to improve their rating after losing 2-3 to Australia to drop to 18 from the 16th place they were before the championship.
Meanwhile, Japan won both junior boys’ and girls’ teams championship title to prevent China’s dominance at the championship.
The feat achieved by the Japanese team has never been achieved by any other country except China.
Clearly, the year 2016 has been dominated by Japan.
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