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WTT contender series preliminary round kick-starts

Posted : 12 June 2023
As the World Table Tennis (WTT) Contender series preliminary round serves off on Monday in Lagos, 48 players made up of 24 males and 24 females have already been listed in the main draw based on their world rating, while the eight remaining slots to complete the 32-player main draw will be contested for in the preliminary round in the male and female singles event. 

The host country, Nigeria has the highest number of players in the preliminary round.

Anders Lind of Denmark and Mihai Bobocica of Italy, who is also the third round finisher in Durban, have also been listed among players in the preliminary round.

Lind had moved from world number 180th to 48th after the performance in Durban.

Also, the Italian Bobocica who is returning to Lagos after his unsatisfactory experience in 2013, when he was beaten early in the now rested Lagos Table Tennis Classics, also benefited from his third-round finish in Durban, where he rose from 93 to 81 in the world rating. 

Lind and Bobocica would be joined by 52 others to contest for the eight slots in the men’s singles while 35 women from 14 countries will slug it out in the preliminary round for the eight available spots in the main draw of the women singles. 

The Nigerian players in the preliminary round would slug it out as they hope to join the likes of Taiwo Mati, Olajide Omotayo, Fatimo Bello and Edem Offiong in the main draw following the absence of their talisman, Quadri Aruna, due to club engagement.

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