Quadri Aruna

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Quadri Aruna Table tennis player
Quadri Aruna
ITTF World Tour 2017 German Open, Magdeburg
Nation: NigeriaNigeria Nigeria
Date of birth: August 9, 1988
Place of birth: Oyo
Playing hand: right
Current world rankings : 22nd
Best world ranking : 18 (Aug 2018)

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

World rankings of Quadri Aruna and Omar Assar since 2012

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
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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ results.ittf.link . (accessed July 1, 2018).
  2. ↑ a b c magazine tischtennis , 2015/11 pages 16–17
  3. ↑ 2014 Men's World Cup - Shot of Day 2 (accessed August 28, 2015)
  4. ↑ ITTF Star Awards: Aruna clears, Ma Long's dance interlude (accessed August 28, 2015)
  5. ↑ ittf.com - Four days to go: Now a very different scenario for Quadri Aruna (accessed on August 2, 2016)
  6. ↑ Nigeria's Aruna wins 3rd title in first season with Sporting Lisbon (accessed June 15, 2016)
  7. ↑ ttbl.de - Olympia: Ovtcharov weiter, Aus für Boll (accessed on August 9, 2016)
  8. ↑ Transfer coup: Quadri Aruna will play in Fulda from summer. mytischtennis.de, February 3, 2020, accessed on February 3, 2020 .
  9. ↑ Ganiyat Olatunde Results from the ITTF database on ittf.com (accessed August 29, 2015)
  10. ↑ tischtennis magazine , 2020/7 page 21
  11. ↑ Quadri Aruna results from the ITTF database on ittf.com (accessed August 29, 2015)
personal data
SURNAME Aruna, Quadri
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Nigerian table tennis player
DATE OF BIRTH August 9, 1988
PLACE OF BIRTH Oyo