{"id":6998,"date":"2026-11-02T23:15:46","date_gmt":"2026-11-02T23:15:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/02\/dakar-2026-nigerian-duo-bow-out-of-table-tennis-event\/"},"modified":"2026-11-02T23:15:46","modified_gmt":"2026-11-02T23:15:46","slug":"dakar-2026-nigerian-duo-bow-out-of-table-tennis-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/02\/dakar-2026-nigerian-duo-bow-out-of-table-tennis-event\/","title":{"rendered":"Dakar 2026: Nigerian duo bow out of table tennis event"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"67.056900726392\">\n<p>Nigeria\u2019s deputy captain, Matthew Kuti, and teammate Favour Ojo played their final matches in the table tennis event at the Dakar 2026 Youth Olympic Games in Senegal after losing their respective final preliminary-round fixtures.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in the day, Ojo was defeated by her Hong Kong counterpart, suffering her third loss in a group of four players. Only the top two players in each group advanced to the knockout stage.<\/p>\n<p>Kuti, who was one victory away from securing a place in the men\u2019s singles knockout stage, lost 0-3 to Italy\u2019s Francesco Travesan, joining the list of African players eliminated in the opening round of the competition.<\/p>\n<p>Of the 15 African players who began their quest for podium finishes in the table tennis event, only Algeria\u2019s Tania Morice and Egypt\u2019s Abdelmalk Elsayed remain in contention.<\/p>\n<p>Both players will be aiming to match or surpass the quarter-final achievement recorded by Nigeria\u2019s Ojo Onaolapo at the 2010 Youth Olympic Games in Singapore.<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-also\">\n<header>Related News<\/header>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>In the men\u2019s singles, Algeria\u2019s Aylan Goudjil, Benin Republic\u2019s Ganiou Abdourahaman, Senegal\u2019s Amador Ferrer, Tunisia\u2019s Youssef Aidli, and Uganda\u2019s Joseph Sebatindira were all eliminated in the preliminary round.<\/p>\n<p>In the women\u2019s singles, Egypt\u2019s Yara Elbadawy, Ghana\u2019s Joanita Borteye, Madagascar\u2019s Tina Andriantahina, Senegal\u2019s Marieme Diallo, Tunisia\u2019s Ela Saidi, and Uganda\u2019s Jemimah Nakawala have also exited the tournament following defeats in the preliminary stage.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div readability=\"14.852589641434\">\n<p> All rights reserved. This material, and other digital content on this website, may not be reproduced, published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed in whole or in part without prior express written permission from PUNCH.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contact\">Contact: <a href=\"\/cdn-cgi\/l\/email-protection#e7938f8282838e938895a7979289848f8980c984888a\"> <span class=\"__cf_email__\" data-cfemail=\"dbafb3bebebfb2afb4a99babaeb5b8b3b5bcf5b8b4b6\">[email\u00a0protected]<\/span> <\/a> <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Source: <\/p>\n<div class=\"nSourse\">Punch Newspapers &#8211; Latest News<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nigeria\u2019s deputy captain, Matthew Kuti, and teammate Favour Ojo played their final matches in the table tennis event at the Dakar 2026 Youth Olympic Games in Senegal after losing their&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6998\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}