Team Nigeria’s para-table tennis players had a torrid time on Thursday as they lost their matches in two events of their competition at the 2024 Paralympic Games in Paris.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the pair of Kayode Alabi and Faith Obazuaye lost 1-3 in the mixed doubles XD17 event.
They lost 6-11 11-7 6-11 6-11 to the pair of Joshua Stacey and Bly Twomey from Great Britain in their Round of 32 game.
Also, the Chinese pair of Peng Weinan and Huang Jiaxin beat the Nigerian pair of Alabi and Victor Farinloye 3-0 in the men’s doubles competition.
They won 11-9 11-5 118 in the MD14 event’s round of 16 fixture.
NAN reports that Team Nigeria will now have to hope for honours from the singles events at the competition, following this early exit.(NAN).
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