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Thursday 12 February 2015

Lagos ITTF World Tour: Organisers increase prize money

In its bid to attract more world-class players to this year’s International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) World Tour tagged Lagos Open, the organisers of the competition have hiked the prize money from $39,000 (N7.8m) to $46,000 (N9.2m).

Also, the number of the events to be competed for has been increased to six from four and the events are singles (men and women), doubles (men and women) as well as the U-21 boys and girls.
The five-day tourney is scheduled to hold at the Molade Okoya-Thomas Hall, Teslim Balogun Stadium, Lagos from March 10 to 14.
The ITTF ranking event will enable the players taking part to amass points for
their world ratings in March.
According to the prospectus released by ITTF on its website, Egypt’s Nabil Almamoon and Algeria’s Mounir Bessah have been named the referee and competition manager respectively, while Nigeria’s Lajide Oluranti serves as the tournament director.
More players from Africa and Europe have also signified their intention to be part of the championship, which has been entrenched in the ITTF calendar.
Also, the current ITTF Star Player, Nigeria’s Aruna Quadri and Africa’s most decorated table tennis player, Segun Toriola have confirmed their participation in the tournament, while home-based stars like Kazeem Makanjuola, Hameed Adeyinka and Rashidat Ogundele will also feature in the competition.

source: tribune.com.ng

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