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| Waidi Oshodi,Table Tennis Boss In Nigeria. |
World Table Tennis ruling
body, has put the prize money for the 2016 Lagos International Open World Tour at $46,000.00 that is N13.8million .
The International Table Tennis Federation, Director of Competition, Karl
Jindrak who confirmed this said, the Lagos Open is as one of the Challenge Series tournaments in the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) calendar.
The championship holds on May 18 to 22 at the Molade Okoya-Thomas
Hall of the Teslim Balogun Stadium, Lagos with top players across the world expected
to grace the five-day tournament.
The amount is the highest prize money tournament in the
Challenge Series of the ITTF World Tour,and players are expected to it jostle .
Defending champion, Egypt’s Omar Assar will be making a return
to Lagos after the disappointing defeat he suffered against Nigeria’s Aruna
Quadri at the ITTF Africa Top 16 Cup in Khartoum, Sudan.
Also, other top ping -pongers from Egypt who have
been part of the championship in the last three years are expected to return to
Lagos in their bid to sweep the prize money.
ITTF has listed six events to be
competed for and these include singles (men and women); doubles (men and women)
as well as U-21 boys and girls.
Preliminary entry for the tournament has
commenced while the final entry has been fixed for April 18 while no entries
will be accepted after midnight on Monday 18th April 2016.
There
are indications that top players from Europe and Asia will be gracing this year’s
tournament as part of their efforts to garner world ranking points as well as
make it to the end-of-the-year ITTF World Tour Finals.
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