Omeh Amadi, a top Nigerian home-based Table Tennis player, says he is targeting victory at the prestigious Molade Okoya-Thomas Table Tennis National Championship.
Amadi said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Monday -yesterday, January 27 – at the opening of the tournament at Molade Okoya-Thomas Hall, Teslim Balogun Stadium, Lagos, describing the sporting event as “a cornerstone of Nigerian sports for decades.”
Enthusing that the late Chief Molade Okoya-Thomas’s family has continued to support and add glamour to the tournament annually, Amadi said: ”It is a good thing I am among the people competing for the tournament; I hope to come out victorious.
“It is clear that the tournament will be highly competitive with many talented players vying for the top spots.
”It is not going to be an easy task, I am very hopeful that I will make it victorious and aim to win the tournament with the help of God.”
Amadi has focused on competing in local table tennis tournaments in Nigeria in apparent effort to steel himself at home first before launching out on the international tennis scene.
He has participated in the prestigious Molade Okoya-Thomas Table Tennis Cup, one of the biggest tournaments in Nigeria, since 2021.
He is currently ranked 163rd in the men’s singles ITTF World Table Tennis Rankings, with 81 points in the ITTF Africa rankings.
