Dorcas Ajoke Adesokan, Nigeria and Africa’s leading female badminton Women’s Singles player, has gone, seen and conquered the event at the just concluded Zambia International Badminton Championship. The finals/closing ceremony was held on Sunday 1st December 2019 in Lusaka.
Seeded number one for the tournament, Dorcas started her campaign with a clear two set whitewash of Uganda’s Fatima Nabirungi 21-9, 21-6. She went on to defeat Egypt’s Jana Ashraf in a dominating performance at 21-13, 21-13 in the Quarterfinals.
In what may seem like the assertion of Nigerian female players over onetime dominant African Champion, Hadia Hosny[3] of Egypt, Dorcas Adesokan went on in the Semifinals to defeat Hadia Hosny 21-19, 21-16 to set up a Final encounter with a younger Egyptian, Doha Hany [2] who had beaten former African Champion, the returning Kate Foo Kune[4] of Mauritius 15-21, 21-13, 21-16 on her way to the Finals.
The Final game started with Dorcas narrowly losing out in the first game,20-22 but rallied back nicely to confirm her ranking and seeding by taking the next two games, 21-18, 21-18, thus the final outcome of the Women’s Singles Finals of the 2019 Zambia International came out 20-22, 21-18, 21-18 in favour of Dorcas Ajoke Adesokan, First seed of the tournament, Number One ranked Nigerian WS player, Number One in Africa and the reigning African WS Badminton Champion.
