Olympics: Nigeria’s Adesokan Loses To Spanish Opponent In Badminton
Nigeria’s Dorcas Adesokan on Monday lost to Clara Azurmendi of Spain in her opening game in the women’s singles event of the badminton competition at the 2020 Olympic Games.
In the group play stage game of Group C fixtures at the Musashino Forest Plaza court in Tokyo, Adesokan lost 0-2 (10-21, 2-21).
It was reported that the 23-year-old will go on to face An Seyoung of South Korea on Tuesday evening, 27th July, at the same venue.
This will be in a different Group C fixture, which will determine her progress in the competition.
Meanwhile, Nigeria’s pair of Godwin Olofua and Anuoluwapo Opeyori will later today return to the same venue.
To continue their Group B campaign in the men’s doubles event, they will take on the pair of Kim Astrup and Anders Rasmussen from 6 p.m Tokyo time.
Both Olofua and Opeyori had lost their opening group game on Saturday against Team Japan.
