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Another ITTF Junior Circuit will be held in Indore, India this week.

The two local young players who is spear-heading India are Sathiyan Gnanasekaran and Soumyajit Ghosh. Both of them excelled on the ITTF Pro Tour in February at the Salwa Cup Kuwait Open and the Qatar Open by recording fine wins against more experienced adversaries and proved they were very much at home on the senior stage.

They are leading a new generation of very promising young players from the sub continent. Over the years many talented players have emerged from India; in such events as the Commonwealth Championships they have stood proudly on the highest step of the medal rostrum but in World events, they have fallen short. A good example is the Asian Junior Championships where they threatened but was overwhelmed by the mights of established table tennis nations as China, Korea and Japan.

The Indian Junior Open will feature both teams and singles events in the junior and cadet age group categories and is part of the ITTF Junior Circuit. The Indian Table Tennis Association offers a total of 15,000 $ (USD) in prize money, with no tax deduction.

(Note : Excerpts from ITTF News)

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I wish I could participate in one of those tournaments in India. At least as a veteran.

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I believe you can still do. Just keep a look-out for entry for veteran category in the Indian Open.

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News update from Indore, India
Good news for India as their local girl participating in the Indian Junior & Cadet Open, Ankita Das can be called the most successful player in Indore. She won the Junior Girls’ Team event with her partner Pooja Sahasrabudhe and is unbeaten in the Doubles and Singles events. At the penultimate day of competition, the 16 year old qualified for the Doubles final with her partner from the Team event. In the Girls’ Singles quarter-finals, she will face the top seeded Suthasini Sawettabut(Thailand).

Ankita Das and Pooja Sahasrabudhe almost missed the qualification for the final in the Junior Girls’ Doubles event. After a comfortable two to nil lead against their compatriots Charvi Kawle/Nikhat Banu, the favourites saw the underdogs levelling the match. But in the crucial fifth game, Das and Sahasrabudhe eventually prevailed 11-7 and qualified the final against Shreya Ghosh and Sumana Krishnan (both also from India)

In the Junior Girls’ Singles event, Suthasini Sawettabut is the only non-Indian quarter-finalist. The rest of the quarter-finalist were from India. Eventually Suthasini made it to the final to battle against Ankita.

In the Junior Boys’ Singles, Thailand has two players in the quarters. Tanapol Santiwattanatarm and Padasak Tunviriyavejchakul. Both are Cadet-aged but possessed enough skills to trouble their older opponents.

(Note : Excerpts from ITTF news)

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Results
Sathiyan Gnanasekaran and Soumyajit Ghosh won the Junior Boys’ Team event in convincing style, while Pooja Sahasrabudhe and Ankita Das prevailed in the Girls’ Team final.

The most exciting final was played between India B and Thailand in the Boys’ Cadet final. Padasak Tunviriyavejchakul, only 13 years old, won both Singles matches for Thailand versus India's Vivek Bhargava and Abhishek Yadav. The final clash in the fifth match was played between Tunviriyavejchakul’s team-mate Tanapol Santiwattanatarm and Vivek Bhargava. The Thai levelled the game twice but eventually lost 12-14 in the decider.

The winners in the Girls Cadet Team are Tennison Reeth Rishya and Mallika Bhandarkar with team India A.