Nigerian becomes first African to win International Tennis Player Of The Year award
26-year-old Nigerian Aruna Quadri has been named the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) Star Player of the year. At the colourful award ceremony that had respected table tennis players and administrators from around the world converge in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE), Quadri claimed two awards ahead of players from Asia and Europe and becomes the first African to win the top prize. The world’s number 30 ranked player was voted the Best Male player beating world number one, China’s Xu Xin and his compatriot, Fan Zhendong, who is the 2014 Youth Olympic Games gold medallist as well as Portugal’s Marcos Freitas, who is the 2014 European Team Championships winner and the first Portuguese player to be ranked top 10 in the world.
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