Izuchukwu Okosi
Nigeria’s Aruna Quadri has been listed among the top 30 table tennis stars across the globe expected to compete at the World Table Tennis (WTT) Championship Macau 2022 beginning from today, Wednesday, October 19 to Sunday, October 23 2022 reports Prime Business Africa.
According to a communique by the WTT, the event will be the gathering of the top 30 men and women stars from the ITTF World Table Tennis Rankings as well as one wildcard and one WTT Nomination to do battle in the Infinity Arena.
The stakes are high with the athletes vying for a share of the $800,000 prize money on offer, as well as the 1000 World Ranking points to be handed out to the winners.
Apart from Aruna who is the current African champion, Egypt’s Omar Assar will also be on duty at the tournament which serves as leeway for contenders to compete at the end-of-the-year WTT Cup Finals Xinxiang 2022.
Meanwhile Quadri has retained his 14th position in the current International Table Tennis Federation World Ranking for men’s singles.
The veteran tennis star Quadri amassed a total points of 1, 715 to cement his position as Africa’s top-ranked table tennis player for the month of October.
Egypt’s Omar Assar is ranked 23rd in the world in the latest ranking released by the international tennis Federation and second in Africa with 975 points, while Ahmed Saleh is placed 67th – third in Africa with 308 points.
Quadri has represented at major international competitions like the Commonwealth Games and the Olympics.
Izuchukwu Okosi is a Nigerian sports and entertainment journalist with two decades of experience in the media industry having begun his media journey in 2002 as an intern at Mundial Sports International (MSI) and Africa Independent Television (AIT), owners of Daar Communications Plc.
In October 2004, Okosi joined Complete Communications Limited, publishers of Complete Sports newspaper and Complete Football magazine as a reporter and later script writer for the Complete Sports studio.
He worked there for 13 years until October 2017.
Okosi also worked various times as Correspondent, Content creator and Editor at Sports Market International Magazine, Opera News, All Nigeria Soccer Media and Iconic Media Watch.
He also undertook freelance writing gigs for some local and international organizations.
Okosi is a member of the Actors Guild of Nigeria (AGN), Association of Movie Producers (AMP), Association of Voiceover Artistes of Nigeria (AVOA), Sports Writers Association of Nigeria (SWAN) and Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ).
He has been part of cast in some Nollywood movies and radio dramas including Blood Money 2, Scores To Settle, Dead End 2, Another Campus Tale and Battle Line.
Aside mainstream media and the entertainment industry, he has interests in scouting/unearthing of talents in the sports and creative sectors, exports business and property development.
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