Nigeria Desk Tennis Federation (NTTF) President, Ishaku Tikon, is thrilled at the forthcoming a few-tier Global Desk Tennis Federation (ITTF) activities slated for the Molade Okoya Thomas Corridor of Teslim Balogun Stadium, Lagos from May possibly 19 to 28.
The competitions held in Lagos are the 2022 Earth Championships regional qualification, African Club Championships and African Cup.
Talking to The Guardian yesterday, Tikon mentioned all vital logistics are being place in location to make the championships a huge good results, including that athletes are currently in camp, perspiring it out to make the minimize as the country’s representatives.
“I am individually below at the Table Tennis portion of the National Stadium with the gamers, who are currently collaborating in the trials to select the country’s associates. That will inform you how ready we are.
“If I, the president, will occur to sit with the athletes to watch and check out the trials, then you really should know how major and dedicated we are to the ITTF activities.
“For the trials, we have Group A and Staff B in situation of injury to any participant that will ultimately be picked to represent the country. The essence of the system Staff B is that whomever we select to substitute an wounded player is also capable of symbolizing the state.
“Every African country getting part in table tennis is envisioned to be right here mainly because it is an ITTF position event. Final year, we had been all in Cameroun and in the similar way, every person will converge also in Nigeria. African’s major ranked athletes like Quadri Aruna and many others are expected to be at the championships,” he explained.
Tikon certain desk tennis followers that Nigeria would host a productive event, expressing, “they ought to be expecting fireworks in the course of the championships. That is what I am expecting and the followers way too ought to count on the greatest of table tennis,” he said.
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