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Table Tennis: Canaan Queens arrive Tunisia for 2025 African clubs championship

 

Canaan Queens, players of the Canaan Table Tennis Club of Calabar, have arrived Tunisia through Casablanca, Morocco, for the 2025 finals of the African Clubs Championship taking place in Tunis, the capital of Tunisia.

Canaan Table Tennis Club of Calabar was selected by the Nigeria Table Tennis Federation (NTTF) to represent Nigeria in the 2025 African Clubs Championship holding in Tunis from 22 to 24, February 2025. 

The players who arrived Tunis on Friday 21 February, will be having their first match today 22nd in group 2. Canaan Table Tennis Club vs Grappes d'Or de Grombelia of Tunisia will begin by 4:30pm Nigerian time.

Meanwhile, Chairman of Canaan Table Tennis Club, Rt. Hon. Orok Duke, has expressed profound gratitude to Cross River State Governor, Prince Bassey Edet Otu for the immense support given to the team to facilitate their travel and other logistics. He assured the governor that Canaan Queens will put in their best to make Cross River and Nigeria proud.

He also thanked the Managing Director of NDDC, Dr Samuel Ogbuku for facilitating the procurement of Visas for the CRS/Niger-Delta/Nigerian Table Tennis Team.

Recall that the team represented Nigeria at the 2024 African Clubs Table Tennis Championship in Libya and finished as first runners-up.

Below is the fixture for the championship:

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