Quadri Aruna
Quadri Aruna | |
ITTF World Tour 2017 German Open, Magdeburg | |
Nation: | Nigeria |
Date of birth: | August 9, 1988 |
Place of birth: | Oyo |
Playing hand: | right |
Current world rankings : | 22nd |
Best world ranking : | 18 (Aug 2018) |
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Quadri Aruna (born August 9, 1988 in Oyo ) is a Nigerian table tennis player . He took part in the Olympic Games in 2012 and 2016 .
Career
Quadri Aruna is the son of a hotel manager and a teacher. He played table tennis for the first time at the age of seven.
Quadri Aruna has been a member of the Nigerian national team since 2007. In 2009 and 2014 he won the Africa Cup and was the only African player to take part in the World Cup . In 2014 in Düsseldorf he defeated as world number 73. one after the other Kenta Matsudaira (No. 27), Alexander Schibajew (No. 37) and Tang Peng (No. 16), before losing 4-2 to the reigning world and Olympic champion and eventual winner Zhang Jike in the quarter-finals . For a rally in this game, Aruna later received the Table Tennis Star Point Award and was also named Male Table Tennis Star 2014 after climbing to world number 30 as a result of the World Cup, the best placement ever achieved by an African player .
In 2010 Quadri Aruna moved to Portugal and played here in the top league for GD Toledos. For the 2015/16 season he moved to Morez in the top French division, the Pro A. There he achieved a total of 15:13 games. At the same time, he continued to play in Portugal for Sporting Lisbon and won all three Portuguese titles with the club this season. In 2016 he won the Africa Top 16 Cup for the third time by beating Omar Assar in the final and qualified for the Olympic Games, in which he won over the world number 7 with completely unexpected victories. Chuang Chih-Yuan and the world number 13. Timo Boll was the first African table tennis player to reach an Olympic quarter-finals. There he was eliminated from the reigning world champion Ma Long . In the team competition, he met China in the first game with the Nigerian team, the game was lost 3-0. As a result of the Olympic Games, he reached a new record in the world rankings with 25th place. In October 2016 he was eliminated from the World Cup without a win and won gold in doubles and silver in singles and with the team at the African Championship . After he had achieved a balance of 19:12 for Morez in 2016/17, he left the club. In the following season he also played for Sporting Lisbon in the Champions League . In 2018 he became African champion for the first time in the absence of Omar Assar and reached a new record in August with 18th place in the world rankings. At the 2019 World Cup he was among the last 32 for the first time, in 2020 he will switch to the table tennis Bundesliga at TTC RhönSprudel Fulda-Maberzell .
Private
Quadri Aruna is married to the Nigerian table tennis player Ganiyat Olatunde. He has three children with her.
Results from the ITTF database
Association | event | year | place | country | singles | Double | Mixed | team |
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NGR | African Championship | 2018 | Port Louis | MRI | gold | Semifinals | 1 | |
NGR | African Championship | 2016 | Agadir | MAR | silver | gold | 2 | |
NGR | African Championship | 2015 | Cairo | EGY | Quarter finals | gold | Quarter finals | 2 |
NGR | African Championship | 2010 | Yaounde | CMR | Semifinals | Semifinals | Semifinals | 2 |
NGR | African Championship | 2008 | Kinshasa | KEN | Quarter finals | Semifinals | silver | 1 |
NGR | African Championship | 2007 | Brazzaville | CGO | Quarter finals | Semifinals | 2 | |
NGR | African Cup | 2020 | Tunis | TO DO | silver | |||
NGR | African Cup | 2019 | Lagos | NGR | 3rd place | |||
NGR | African Cup | 2018 | Nairobi | KEN | silver | |||
NGR | African Cup | 2017 | Agadir | MOR | gold | |||
NGR | African Cup | 2016 | Khartoum | SOUTH | gold | |||
NGR | African Cup | 2015 | Yaounde | CMR | silver | |||
NGR | African Cup | 2014 | Lagos | NGR | gold | |||
NGR | African Cup | 2013 | Oyo | DRC | 3rd place | |||
NGR | African Cup | 2011 | Rabat | MAR | 3rd place | |||
NGR | African Cup | 2009 | Rabat | MAR | gold | |||
NGR | Africa Games | 2019 | Rabat | MAR | silver | Quarter finals | 2 | |
NGR | Africa Games | 2015 | Brazzaville | CGO | silver | last 16 | Quarter finals | 1 |
NGR | Africa Games | 2011 | Maputo | MOZ | 4th Place | Quarter finals | 2 | |
NGR | Olympic games | 2016 | Rio de Janeiro | BRA | Quarter finals | 9 | ||
NGR | Olympic games | 2012 | London | CLOSELY | last 64 | |||
NGR | ITTF Challenge Series | 2019 | Lagos | NGR | gold | |||
NGR | ITTF Challenge Series | 2018 | Lagos | NGR | gold | |||
NGR | ITTF Challenge Series | 2017 | Czestochowa | POLE | gold | |||
NGR | ITTF World Tour | 2019 | Panagyurishte | BUL | Semifinals | |||
NGR | ITTF World Tour | 2017 | Panagyurishte | BUL | Semifinals | Agony | ||
NGR | ITTF World Tour | 2015 | Lagos | NGR | silver | gold | ||
NGR | ITTF World Tour | 2014 | Lagos | NGR | Semifinals | |||
NGR | World Championship | 2019 | Budapest | HUN | last 32 | last 64 | ||
NGR | World Championship | 2018 | Halmstad | SWE | 29 | |||
NGR | World Championship | 2017 | Dusseldorf | GER | last 64 | last 32 | last 64 | |
NGR | World Championship | 2016 | Kuala Lumpur | MAS | 29 | |||
NGR | World Championship | 2015 | Suzhou | CHN | last 128 | last 32 | ||
NGR | World Championship | 2014 | Tokyo | JPN | 29 | |||
NGR | World Championship | 2013 | Paris | FRA | Agony | Agony | last 128 | |
NGR | World Championship | 2012 | Dortmund | GER | 32 | |||
NGR | World Championship | 2011 | Rotterdam | NED | Agony | Agony | last 128 | |
NGR | World Championship | 2010 | Moscow | RUS | 31 | |||
NGR | World Championship | 2007 | Zagreb | CRO | Agony | last 128 | ||
NGR | World cup | 2019 | Cheng you | CHN | last 16 | |||
NGR | World cup | 2018 | Paris | FRA | 17th to 20th space | |||
NGR | World cup | 2017 | Liege | BEL | last 16 | |||
NGR | World cup | 2016 | Saarbrücken | GER | 17th to 20th space | |||
NGR | World cup | 2014 | Dusseldorf | GER | Quarter finals | |||
NGR | World cup | 2009 | Moscow | RUS | 17th place | |||
NGR | WTC World Team Cup | 2019 | Tokyo | JPN | 9-12 space | |||
NGR | WTC World Team Cup | 2010 | Dubai | UAE | 5th place |
literature
- Susanne Heuing: The darling of the masses , table tennis magazine , 2015/11 pages 16-17
Web links
- Quadri Aruna Article about Quadri Aruna on the website of the World Table Tennis Association ittf.com (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ results.ittf.link . (accessed July 1, 2018).
- ↑ a b c magazine tischtennis , 2015/11 pages 16–17
- ↑ 2014 Men's World Cup - Shot of Day 2 (accessed August 28, 2015)
- ↑ ITTF Star Awards: Aruna clears, Ma Long's dance interlude (accessed August 28, 2015)
- ↑ ittf.com - Four days to go: Now a very different scenario for Quadri Aruna (accessed on August 2, 2016)
- ↑ Nigeria's Aruna wins 3rd title in first season with Sporting Lisbon (accessed June 15, 2016)
- ↑ ttbl.de - Olympia: Ovtcharov weiter, Aus für Boll (accessed on August 9, 2016)
- ↑ Transfer coup: Quadri Aruna will play in Fulda from summer. mytischtennis.de, February 3, 2020, accessed on February 3, 2020 .
- ↑ Ganiyat Olatunde Results from the ITTF database on ittf.com (accessed August 29, 2015)
- ↑ tischtennis magazine , 2020/7 page 21
- ↑ Quadri Aruna results from the ITTF database on ittf.com (accessed August 29, 2015)
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Aruna, Quadri |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Nigerian table tennis player |
DATE OF BIRTH | August 9, 1988 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Oyo |