{"id":21929,"date":"2024-03-06T09:22:47","date_gmt":"2024-03-06T09:22:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=21929"},"modified":"2024-03-06T09:22:47","modified_gmt":"2024-03-06T09:22:47","slug":"nigeria-secures-second-medal-at-13th-african-games-as-aruna-quadri-clinches-silver-in-table-tennis-singles-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/03\/06\/nigeria-secures-second-medal-at-13th-african-games-as-aruna-quadri-clinches-silver-in-table-tennis-singles-final\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria Secures Second Medal at 13th African Games as Aruna Quadri Clinches Silver in Table Tennis Singles Final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nigeria added another medal to its tally at the 13th African Games in Accra, Ghana, as Aruna Quadri battled against Egypt&#8217;s Omar Assar in a thrilling final of the men&#8217;s table tennis singles event, ultimately settling for silver after a closely contested match.<\/p>\n<p>The showdown between Quadri and Assar captivated spectators, showcasing their exceptional skills and fierce rivalry. Assar claimed the first set with a score of 11-8, but Quadri quickly bounced back, securing victories in the second and third sets with scores of 11-2 and 11-2, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>However, Assar rallied, seizing the fourth set 11-7, only for Quadri to respond by clinching the fifth set 11-9. In a dramatic finale, Assar surged ahead, winning the last two sets 11-9 and 11-0 to secure the gold medal.<\/p>\n<p>Nigeria&#8217;s first medal of the Games was earned by Offiong Edem, who claimed the bronze medal in the women&#8217;s singles event earlier in the tournament.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nigeria added another medal to its tally at the 13th African Games in Accra, Ghana, as Aruna Quadri battled against Egypt&#8217;s Omar Assar in a thrilling final of the men&#8217;s table tennis singles event, ultimately settling for silver after a closely contested match. The showdown between Quadri and Assar captivated spectators, showcasing their exceptional skills [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":21930,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175],"tags":[725],"class_list":["post-21929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-aruna-quadri"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21929"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21952,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21929\/revisions\/21952"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}