Africa Badminton Championship: Nigeria beat Mauritius & face Algeria on Tuesday

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Nigeria’s hope of advancing at the ongoing Africa Badminton Championship got a huge boost on Monday as the team bounced back from opening day defeat to South Africa.

The Nigeria badminton team had earlier lost her opening game 3-2 to the host nation but the team kept qualifying hopes alive after defeating Mauritius by the same score line in the team event.

The duo of captain Gideon Babalola and Clement Okrobapo won the men’s double while Dorcas Adesokan and Momoh Zainab also won the women’s double.

The tie breaker was Dorcas’s victory in the women’s single after Clement and Zainab lost the mixed double and Gideon couldn’t win in the single. Thus, the 3-2 victory over Mauritius was hard-fought.

Nigeria will play Algeria in the last group game on Tuesday. A win for Nigeria will see the country progress to the next round in the team event.

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