Abiodun Ajose,Lagos
Nigeria’s Aruna Quadri last Saturday lost gallantly to number one seed Tomokazu Harimoto in a one sided semi final match at the WTT Star Contender in Doha, Qatar.
Quadri , African number two ranked table tennis player lost all set 11-9, 11-3,11-5 to his Japanese counterpart.
In the build up into Saturday’s semi final game , Quadri had impressive performances against all the players that crossed his part, starting with British top player Liam Pitchford which he won by 3-1, at the round of 32 Quadri also recorded a hard fought 3-2 victory over Spanish Alvaro Robles to set up a quarter final game against Korean Park Gangyeon which also ended 3-1 in favour of Aruna Quadri .
Despite the semi final loss to Harimoto it was a great start for Aruna Quadri for the year 2025 putting behind his poor outing at the Paris 2024 Olympics in France where he fell at the first hurdle and crashed out at the round of 64.
Aruna Quadri will be looking to build on his fantastic run of form at the WTT Star Contender 2025 in Doha as he continues his journey through the 2025 circuit.
