Nigerian Table Tennis captain, Segun Toriola has bowed out of the men’s singles event at the quarter-final stage of the ongoing Commonwealth Games, following a knee injury at the Oxenford Studios on Thursday morning in Gold Coast, Australia.

Toriola who seemed to be in pain with each movement gave up at 7-11, 5-9 against India’s Sathiyan Gnanasekaran.

Toriola had taken charge of the gap created by Aruna Quadri’s absence in the team event.

The team had earlier won Silver behind India

Quadri, who is the highest-ranked player in the Gold Coast, had to sit out the team event due to ill health.

Quadri is now the only Nigerian player left in the men’s singles event and he advanced to the quarter-finals after coming from 5 points down to force a 12-10 win in the 5th game to close out the match 4-1 (11-5, 8-11,11-3,11-3,12-10) on Thursday morning.

Source: http://hotsportstv.com/injury-knocks-toriola-mens-tennis-singles/