Canaan Table Tennis Club Chairman Duke Congratulates Hope Udoaka For Emerging National Champion
By Missang AKPET
The Chairman of Canaan Table Tennis Club of Calabar, Rt. Hon. Orok Duke has congratulated Canaan Table Tennis Club star Hope Udoaka for emerging national female champion at the Fifth Michael and Felicia Alabi Memorial National Table Tennis Championship.
Udoaka, in a thrilling encounter which held in Otan Ayegbaju, Osun State at the weekend, defeated table tennis veteran, Halima Hussain of Oyo State 4-1 (11-5, 11-9, 9-11, 11-7, 11-7) to be crowned the new female champion.
Duke described Udoaka as one of the Club's fast rising stars while lauding her for the zeal, hard work and excellence in the sport, which he attributed to the successes recorded in several competitions.
He thanked the Governor of Cross River, Senator Prince Bassey Otu for the passionate support of table tennis in the state stating that Canaan Table Tennis Club is at the forefront of grooming a new generation of table tennis stars, whose skills and talents hold the future of the sport in the state.
He expressed the hope that Table Tennis would make Cross River proud by winning gold medals in the upcoming National Sports Festival set to take place this year in Ogun state.
