Africa’s top-ranked table tennis star, Aruna Quadri, has moved up one spot from 14th to 13th in the latest International Table Tennis Federation World Rankings for men’s singles.
This comes after Quadri’s quarter-final finish at the just-concluded WTT Singapore Smash, where he became the first African to reach the quarter-finals of the competition.
Meanwhile, another Nigerian Taiwo Mati dropped three spots in the latest rankings for men, with the 17-year-old now ranked 101 in the world.
The teenager crashed out in the qualifying round of the WTT Singapore Smash tournament, after losing three straight sets 11-9, 11-9, 11-2 to Ecuadorian Alberto Mino.
In the women’s singles, Fatimo Bello dropped seven spots to place 72nd, while Offiong Edem lost three places to end the month at 136th.
Abosede Odusanya also lost three spots to end the month at 243, just as Cecelia Akpan is now ranked 276 after losing two steps.
