WTT Contender: Nigeria’s Oyeniyi, Yiyun others lose in qualifying round 2
Agency Report
Nigeria’s female player, Kehinde Oyeniyi, has lost to Izebela Lupulesku of Serbia at the ongoing World Table Tennis Contender Series at the Molade Okoya Thomas Indoor Sports Hall Teslim Balogun Stadium, Lagos.
Oyeniyi was defeated by 3-0 in the best of five games in the qualifying round two of the women’s singles.
She noted that this was her first experience playing an international game.
She added that she would learn from the experience while making good use of all she had learnt.
“This is my first time playing in this kind of competition.
“I am very excited, when I was playing, I noticed some of my mistakes that I need to correct and this means I will need to put in more work,” she said.
Lupulesku in her excitement said she was tensed at the beginning of the match.
She said first matches were usually tough because opponents could not be predicted.
“It is…