Badminton: Adesokan Loses To Spanish Foe As Men’s Doubles Team Bow To Denmark

Team Nigeria’s Dorcas Adesokan was defeated by Spain’s Clara Azurmendi in her opening game in the women’s singles event of the badminton events at the

The Group C game decided inside the Musashino Forest Plaza court in Tokyo, Adesokan lost 0-2 .This will be in another Group C fixture, which will determine her progress in the competition.

Nigeria’s pair of Godwin Olofua and Anuoluwapo Opeyori on Monday suffered their second defeat in the badminton men’s doubles event. The Nigerian pair were outclassed by Denmark’s duo of Kim Astrup and Anders Rasmussen 2-0 in their second game of the competition played at the Musashino Forest Sport Plaza, Tokyo.

The Nigerian duo scored four points with service in the first game, while the more dominant Danes had 17 points from service.

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