African table tennis players are ranked in the top ten in the world, can you imagine?
On May 3, 2022, the International Table Tennis Federation officially announced the latest ranking list, and Aruna from Nigeria became the tenth player in the men's singles of Xinke, breaking a new record in the history of African table tennis!
Born in a poor country, the game lacks coaching guidance, alone against the top masters of Asia and Europe, 11-1 critical strike world champion Liang Jingkun, one consecutive game to win the Chinese team 3 athletes (National Games singles runner-up Liu Dingshuo, direct shooting star Zhao Zihao, World Table Tennis main Zhou Qihao), two of which swept 3-0 - Aruna deserves the world's top ten rankings, congratulations!
Born in 1988, Aruna is a star figure in the African table tennis world, as early as 2015 has been famous, when he relied on a strong muscle and infinite strength to return the ball, the national table tennis Grand Slam Zhang Jike was difficult to beat, almost burst a super cold, impressive.
In the 2016 Rio Olympic Games, Aruna officially launched a threat, winning consecutive world champions Pol and Zhuang Zhiyuan to advance to the quarterfinals, although he later lost 0-4 to Ma Long, he can still proudly say: I only lost to the later champions!
In 2021, Aruna once again created a good result in the WTT World Cup final, 3-1 lix national table tennis world champion Liang Jingkun, and only let the other side take 1 point in a single game, which made the main force of the Chinese team collapse. In the 2022 WTT Doha Star Competition, Aruna won consecutively against Liu Dingshuo, Zhao Zihao and Zhou Qihao to advance to the final four, but unfortunately he still failed to win the championship, but his strength has been recognized by everyone.
Since Aruna's several eye-catching performances have occurred in the past year, and the latest WORLD ranking rules of the Itttennis Federation have cleared up the points before December 2020, this makes Aruna's advantage more obvious, which has won the opportunity to rank in the top ten.
Overall, Aruna is truly what he has achieved because of his unusual technique – compared to athletes on other continents, Aruna's strength is significantly larger than that of other continents, which is hard to match; compared with other African athletes, his stability is even better, but unfortunately there is no good coaching, otherwise the achievement may be higher.
So we see that Aruna can always have a brilliant performance, but always can't laugh to the end, but anyway, it has been very powerful to achieve the current results, let's praise his persistence and efforts together: come on!