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Chinese Qihao, Yu Bin emerge winners at WTT Contender in Lagos

Posted : 19 June 2023
Chinese Zhou Qihao has emerged champions of the first Lagos-hosted World Table Tennis Contender of the Men's single while Shin Yu Bin from Korea Republic won the female single edition.

Africa Sport Network (ASN) reports that Qihao defeated European Champions and tournament's favourite, Ovtcharov Dimitrij from Germany in an enthralling finals of the Men's single played at the Molade Okoya-Thomas Hall of Teslim Balogun Stadium, Surulere.

Dimitrij was the number one of the Lagos supporters as they were urging him to win with voices and whistle, he eventually bowed to the Super power of Qihao.

Qihao in an interview after his victory conceaded that it was not easy to be the tournament's favourite.

"First of all, I'm very happy to get a victory here, because everybody works very hard to get this result.

"Playing against Dimitrij (fans' favourite) is not easy for me at all.

"Chinese are everywhere. When players go around the world, they get a lot of fans. All the Chinese people are very glad about this.

"For Dimitrij, Nigerians applauded and cheered him, but I'm lucky to win this competition," he said.

For Yu Bin from Republic of Korea, winner of the Women's Singles, the victory comes in a hard way.

"I am very glad to win this match. I prepared very well for this match and I also practiced well. 

"For the WTT Contender tournament in Tunisia, I will really try my best. But for this match, I am very happy," she said.

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