The Nigerian set a new African record as the first player from the continent to make it to the semifinal of the WTT Star Contender.
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Aruna is playing in Singapore on the back of an historical outing at the world championships in Houston where he became the first African to reach the quarter finals of the world table tennis championships and the first African to rise up to No.13 in the world.
The Nigerian who had earlier in the round of 16 defeated a Swedish Kristian Karlsson bemoaned his inability to tame the young and skillful 19-year-old Swede after falling behind in the first two games of the 4-2 (13-11, 11-8, 2-11, 11-4, 12-14, 11-7) loss in the quarter finals.
The two events, which have $600,000 as prize money, will take place at Lusail Sports Arena in Doha.
Speaking at the ITTF WTTF Webinar for Africa on Wednesday, the former Olympic and World Champion was excited with the setting up of WTT while hoping that Africa would embrace WTT with more super stars emerging from the continent.