Olympics: Women’s Hopes Dashed In Tennis As Offiong Crashes Out

By Jonathan Ugbal

Hopes for a female medal in the table tennis singles event at the ongoing Olympics in Rio, Brazil have been dashed as Cross River born Offiong Edem crashed out, losing 1-4 to Belarus’s Viktoria Pavlovich.

Offiong who won her first game beating Fiji’s Yee Sally 4-0 began on a good note, winning the first set 11-5 but lost the remaining four sets to Pavlovich 8-11, 8-11, 7-11 and 4-11.

Earlier, Funke Oshonaike who is Team Nigeria’s assistant captain at the games, crashed out in the first round of the women singles following her 2-4 loss to Puerto Rican, Diaz Ariana.