Nigeria's female number one squash player, Yemisi Olatunji is out of the 2019 Slaight Music Granite Open 2019 after losing in the Round of 16 0-3 (8-11, 5-11, 7-11) to world number 68 in the PSA rankings, Jessica Turnbull of Australia on Monday 25th of March.
Concise News reports that the tournament in Toronto is Olatunji Sr.’s second competition in 10 days in Canada. In the North American country, she won two and lost two. The highpoint of her participation in the two events in Canada is a stunning comeback win in her Round 1 match against a home player, Molly Chadwick.
The 25-year-old is one of the only two African players that competed at the women’s category of the event ending tomorrow, 28th of March. The other African representative being Amina El Rihany of Egypt.
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