African desk tennis should make investments extra in teaching improvement and increase alternatives for rising gamers to compete at the highest degree, in keeping with Enitan Oshodi, who believes the continent has the expertise to problem extra established nations.
Oshodi expressed satisfaction with the normal of play at the African Table Tennis Championships, notably the progress made by younger gamers who’ve graduated from junior competitions into their respective senior nationwide groups, Sports247.ng studies.
He famous that the African Youth Championships held in Ghana had supplied an vital pathway for promising gamers, a lot of whom have now established themselves at senior degree.
“What I’m happy to see is that, following on from the African Youth Championships in Ghana, a lot of those young players have managed to make their senior national teams, and the standard of play has been very good,” Oshodi stated.
While acknowledging the enhancements recorded on the taking part in facet, he insisted that African desk tennis nonetheless has appreciable room for improvement, particularly in officiating and technical training.
“We can always do better. I think on the officiating side, we see the improvements that we’re making from training that we’re giving the officials. The players, the standard is higher. The top players have come to the party here,” he defined.
Oshodi pressured that the subsequent stage of improvement should deal with making the sport accessible to a wider pool of gamers whereas making certain that coaches obtain the coaching wanted to compete with their worldwide counterparts.
“We have the talent in Africa. Now we need to open it up to a wider group, get our coaching in place, coaching for our coaches especially,” he stated.
“The players take on the coaching very quickly, but we need more coaches. We need the calibre of our coaches to match those that the rest of the world are using.”
He concluded that though the championships demonstrated encouraging progress in participant improvement and aggressive requirements, extra funding and technical enhancements can be required to maintain that momentum.
“So overall, I’m happy, but I could be much happier,” Oshodi added.
