{"id":47008,"date":"2024-09-04T09:06:23","date_gmt":"2024-09-04T09:06:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=47008"},"modified":"2024-09-04T09:06:23","modified_gmt":"2024-09-04T09:06:23","slug":"paralympics-2024-tennis-nigerias-ogunleke-in-quarter-final-showdown-with-thomas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/09\/04\/paralympics-2024-tennis-nigerias-ogunleke-in-quarter-final-showdown-with-thomas\/","title":{"rendered":"Paralympics 2024 Tennis: Nigeria\u2019s Ogunleke In Quarter-Final Showdown With Thomas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Team Nigeria\u2019s medal hopeful Isau Ogunkunle<br \/>\nwill take on France\u2019s Maxime Thomas in the men\u2019s Class 4 quarter-finals (table tennis) at the ongoing 2024 Paralympic Games on Wednesday (today).<\/p>\n<p>Ogunkunle is the only Nigerian left in the table tennis event after the exit of Christiana Alabi, Abiola Adesope, and Kayode Alabi.<\/p>\n<p>The trio fell out of the medal race on Tuesday with Abiola Adesope losing in straight sets to his French opponent Lucas Didier (11-9, 11-4, 11-6) in their Round of 16 singles class 9 tie.<\/p>\n<p>In a hard fought encounter, Christiana Alabi bowed out to her Chilean opponent Tamara Leonelli 3-1 (11-8, 11-5, 10-12, 12-10).<br \/>\nAlabi\u2019s husband, Kayode Alabi, also lost to Thailand\u2019s Rungroj Thainiyom in their quarter-final match in class 6.<\/p>\n<p>Team Nigeria has won only one medal at the Games ,by para-badminton player Eniola Bolaji, who won bronze on Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Team Nigeria\u2019s medal hopeful Isau Ogunkunle will take on France\u2019s Maxime Thomas in the men\u2019s Class 4 quarter-finals (table tennis) at the ongoing 2024 Paralympic Games on Wednesday (today). Ogunkunle is the only Nigerian left in the table tennis event after the exit of Christiana Alabi, Abiola Adesope, and Kayode Alabi. The trio fell out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":47013,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175],"tags":[1473],"class_list":["post-47008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-paralympics-2024-tennis"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47008","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=47008"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47008\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47042,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47008\/revisions\/47042"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}