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Africa’s number one, Quadri Aruna, continued his record breaking streak in table tennis yesterday by becoming the first African to reach the quarterfinals of the WTT Singapore Smash. He beat world number four Tomokazu Harimoto in the men’s singles round of 16 at the Infinity Arena.
The Nigerian is the only surviving African in the competition after the early exit of the Egyptian quartet of Omar Assar, Dina Meshref, Hana Goda and Mariam Alhodaby.
Having lost three times to the Japanese superstar, Aruna, ranked 14th in the world, showed his class and composure to stun Harimoto 3-0(11-7, 13-11, 11-7).
Aruna said: I spoke to some coaches here and they gave me good advice on how to play Harimoto; so i tried it.
I had tried some tactics before against him but it didn’t work; but the advice from the coaches really helped me today. However, I will have to keep the advice to myself for the next meeting, declared a happy Aruna.
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