Daughter of Nigeria's greatest table tennis player shows exceptional skills in training with dad
- Aruna Quadri's daughter Mariam showed amazing skills in table tennis in training
- Mariam was comfortably delivering several loops with her right hand against her dad
- Aruna is ranked the world's number 27 in ITTF current rating for table tennis stars
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Aruna Quadri's daughter Mariam is a project under the pipeline in a bid to follow in her dad's foot-steps in the game of table tennis.
Aruna who is regarded as the greatest African table tennis player due to his record-breaking feat in the ping-pong sport and is now putting his daughter through to work in his foot-steps.
In a video posted on Twitter, Mariam was throwing several forearm smashes simultaneously as her father was returning the ball to her the same way.
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Mariam will be having all the coaching tips required because her mum Ganiyat is also a professional table tennis player.
Aruna has represented Nigeria in two Olympics and got into the quarter final stage of the Rio 2016 edition where he defeated several top names before losing to the World's No.1 Ma Long in the last eight.
The quarter finals at an Olympic table tennis event remains the highest level of the sport that any African player have reached.
The 32-year-old also won bronze for Nigeria at the 2014 Common Wealth Games and the world's 27th ranked player was named the Sportsman of the year award at the 2018 Nigerian Sports Award.
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Meanwhile, Legit.ng had earlier reported that Michaela Onyenwere's grandmother played the role of her parents after she's drafted into the WNBA ahead of next season, ESPN Twitter.
The 21-year-old became the sixth pick in players that will play at the topflight level league of women's basketball in the United States.
While Michaela was conducting an interview after being selected, a certain old woman identified as her grandmother was in the background dressed in Igbo outfit dancing for joy.
She was wearing a traditional sky blue George and a yellow wrapper with beads on her neck as she danced the native Igbo steps to celebrate her granddaughter which did not go unnoticed by the camera.
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