Also, Edem Offiong who also featured at the Singapore Smash gained a step up to be ranked 98 in the world rating made available to the media by ITTF.
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The battle between the bigwigs in African table tennis brought out the best in Nigeria and Egypt at the 12th African Games with Egypt securing the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games tickets in the men and women events after emerging as the continental champions.
In the last three editions of the World Team Cup, Egypt men and women teams have featured in the tournament and the last time Nigeria’s men team competed was in 2010 in Dubai
Men’s singles defending champion, Aruna Quadri, tops the list of confirmed Nigeria players as well as seven-time Olympian, Segun Toriola, will be campaigning in the men’s singles.
To win the tournament in 2016 in Khartoum, Sudan, Quadri defeated Omar Assar of Egypt 4-2, while Meshref also beat Edem Offiong of Nigeria
Toriola, who is making a record appearance in the competition, beat Dmitrij Prokopcov of the Czech Republic 4-2 in the Men’s Singles Round One
Aside being the favourite to qualify in Sudan, where the final continental qualifiers took place, Offiong was ahead of most of the competitors considering her rating and records