Nigeria Open | |
Tour: | ITTF Challenge Series |
Sponsor: | Baba Ijebu Government of Lagos State |
Founded: | 2013 |
Location: | Lagos |
Venue: | Teslim Balogun Stadium |
Category: | ITTF World Tour |
Prize Money: | US$46,000 (2018) |
Completed Event: | 2018 ITTF Challenge Series Nigeria Open |
Men's Singles: | Quadri Aruna |
Women's Singles: | Guo Yan |
Men's Doubles: | Alexandre Robinot Joe Seyfried |
Women's Doubles: | Qi Fenjie Sun Chen |
The Nigeria Open, also called ITTF Challenge Nigeria Series or ITTF Challenge Seamester Nigeria Open is an annual table tennis tournament in Lagos, Nigeria, run by the International Table Tennis Federation as part of Challenge Series. Egyptian Omar Assar has won the most single gold medals. In 2018, the prize money for the medalist at the event was $46,000.[1] The maiden edition was known as Lagos Classics, it was until 2014 that the tournament was listed in ITTF calendar.[2] [3]
Year | Men's singles | runner-up | Women's singles | runner-up | Ref |
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2013 | Omar Assar | Segun Toriola | Cecilia Otu Akpan | Offiong Edem | [4] [5] |
2014 | Omar Assar | Nadeen El-Dawlatly | Dina Meshref | [6] [7] [8] | |
2015 | Quadri Aruna | Shao Jieni | Dina Meshref | [9] | |
2016 | Khalid Assar | Shao Jieni | Szandra Pergel | [10] | |
2017 | Sarthak Ghandi | Dina Meshref | Kulikova Olga | [11] | |
2018 | Antoine Hachard | Guo Yan | Sun Chen | [12] | |