Nigeria Female Table Tennis Player, Offiong Edem has move up in the latest Table Tennis rankings.
Offiong Edem moved up seven places in the Table Tennis global rankings after becoming the only Nigeria Table Tennis Player to win a game in the Olympic Games.
She remains the 3rd highest ranked African player in the world. She went from 123rd to 116th in the latest ITTF rankings.
Edem was the only Nigerian player to win a match at Tokyo 2020 Olympics by handing Nigeria her first victory in the ongoing summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan with a 4-1 preliminary round victory in the women’s Table Tennis Singles before crashing out in the next round.
The Nigeria’s highest ranked women’s table tennis player Edem Offiong has recorded a convincing 4-1(11-8,11-9,11-9,9-11,11-4) win over Dora Madarasz of Hungary to progress into the round 2 of the women’s singles