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Aruna Quadri has been invited by the International Table Tennis Federation to participate in the 2018 Liebherr World Cup in Paris
The tournament is scheduled from 19 to 21 October.
Aruna, who missed the tournament following his 4-3 defeat to Egyptian Omar Assar at the Africa Cup Top 16 2018 in Kenya, got the nod because of of its world ranking
The Nigerian star is ranked 20th best player
The ITTF said "Aruna has qualified on the basis of his second place in the Africa Cup 2018 (after have taken into account the world ranking of July). "
Quadri stated that he had worked hard to win the world rankings, which gave him a chance to play in Paris.
He said: "It's the reward of hard work, after losing the ITTF Africa Top 16 Cup, I did not sleep because I knew it is still very possible to get qualifying through the world ranking, but I had to work "
" My qualifications for the round of 32 in Qatar and Germany and some of my important victories in Sweden at the world championship were enough to guarantee me a place In France I am very happy and excited that I finally did it and the mission is accomplished. "
The other players who made the list are Egypt Omar Assar and the Chinese duo Ma Long and Fan Zhendong; Brazilian Hugo Calderano and Gustavo Tsuboi; Timo Boll and Dimitrij Ovtcharov of Germany
The others are the South Koreans Lee Sangsu and Jeong Sangeun; Simon Gauzy and Lebesson Emmanuel of France; Japan's Niwa Koki and Harimoto Tomokazu; Karlsson Mattias of Sweden, Vladimir Samsonov of Byelorussia; Wong Chun Ting from Hong Kong; Jonathan Groth from Denmark; Khanak Jha of the United States and HU Heming of Australia
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