Why my world ranking dropped – Quadri

 

 A dissatisfy Aruna Quadri has attributed his recent slump majorly in the latest ITTF ranking to his inability to feature at the German Open.

         The Portugal-based ITTF Star Player told TheNationSport that for not making it to the German as well as his poor performance this year in the ITTF World Tour may have caused the slide, but believes with more hardwork, he would return to the top.

“I wanted to play the German Open because that is one of the biggest World Tours in the ITTF calendar but I played a lot of matches at the Lagos Open and this made me to be tired. After the final of the Lagos Open, I had informed the Nigeria Table Tennis Federation (

NTTF) to cancel my registration before the draw for the German Open. Unfortunately this was not done on time and I was drawn in the tournament. This was what caused me penalty of 25 points and this was deducted from my ranking points for the month of March,” he said.

He further added that loosing some matches from the beginning of the year till the moment caused his ranking position to drop. “There is big possibility of maintaining my position as well, provided that the 25 penalty points was not deducted and the little points I won at the Lagos Open was enough to make me remain in 32 spot in world ranking. But this will surely ginger me to continue to work hard,” he said.

In the March released on April 1 by the world table tennis ruling body, Quadri dropped from 31 to 38 Egypt’s Omar Assar, who defended his title at the 2015 Lagos Open also plummeted in his rating as the north African star dropped from 37 to 41.

Meanwhile, China’s Ma Long retained his number spot in the Men’s World Rankings. It is the 32nd occasion, when the monthly listings have been issued, that the 26 year-old Chinese has been ahead of the field; he first rose to the elevated position in January 2010.