Nigeria, Sept. 14 -- Nigeria's Quadri Aruna has set a new African record by becoming the first player from the continent to be ranked in the top 15 in the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) Ranking.

In the new rankings released on September 14 by the world table tennis ruling body, Aruna, who was runners-up in the men's singles of the Cameroon 2021 ITTF African Championships moved four steps up the ranking ladder to 15th place.

Aruna becomes the first African to attain this in the world ranking and, in the process, erased the earlier 16th-place achieved by Egyptian Omar Assar's in January 2018.

Aruna's unbeaten run came to an end in the final of the tournament in Cameroon when he lost 4-1 to Assar and for his performance, the...