World Youth Table Tennis Championships 2022: Indian results at a glance
A total of nine Indian table tennis players, eight in under-19 and one in under-15, competed in Tunisia. Get all results for singles, doubles and team events.
The World Youth Table Tennis Championships 2022 is being held at Salle Omnisport de Rades in Tunisia from December 4 to 11.
The eight-day tournament saw nine Indian table tennis players compete for medals in the under-15 and under-19 age group categories.
Each table tennis category had seven different events, boys team, girls team, boys singles, girls singles, boys doubles, girls doubles and mixed doubles.
Of the nine Indian TT players competing at the Tunis meet, eight were in the under-19 category. Jennifer Varghese, 14, was India’s sole challenger in the under-15 age group. She competed in the girls’ singles event and teamed up with Egyptian partners for the doubles events.
Get India’s full squad for the World Youth Table Tennis Championships 2022 here.
The team events were held over the first three days of the competition while the doubles events started on December 6. Singles events kickstarted on December 8.
India’s under-19 girls’ doubles pair of Yashaswini Ghorpade and Suhana Saini settled for bronze after losing 3-0 (16-14, 11-4, 11-6) to Miwa Harimoto and Miyuu Kihara of Japan in the semi-finals. It was the only medal won by India at the event.
World Youth Table Tennis Championships 2022: Results for Indian players
Under-19 boys team
Round of 16 - Japan 3-0 India (India eliminated)
Ryoichi Yoshiyama 3-0 Ankur Bhattacharjee (11-5,11-5,11-3)
Hayate Suzuki 3-1 Payas Jain (9-11,11-6,11-3,11-6)
Yuta Iimura 3-2 Yashansh Malik (11-7,13-15,7-11,11-5,13-11)
Under-19 girls team
Round of 16 - India (progressed with bye)
Quarter-finals - India 2-3 France (India eliminated)
Yashaswini Ghorpade 3-0 Charlotte Lutz (11-2,11-6,11-5)
Suhana Saini 0-3 Prithika Pavade (4-11,4-11,5-11)
Nithya Mani 3-0 Agathe Avezou (11-6,11-3,11-8)
Yashaswini Ghorpade 0-3 Prithika Pavade (7-11,8-11,11-13)
Suhana Saini 1-3 Charlotte Lutz (11-7,8-11,4-11,9-11)
Under-19 boys doubles
Round of 16: Payas Jain/Ivor Ban 1-3 Andrea Puppo/Adam Stalzer (14-16, 11-7, 9-11, 8-11)
Under-19 girls doubles
Round of 16: Suhana Saini/Yashaswinin Ghorpade (progressed with bye)
Quarter-finals: Yashaswini Ghorpade/Suhana Saini 3-1 Chi-Shiuan Chen/Giulia Takahashi (14-12, 5-11, 11-4, 11-7)
Semi-finals: Yashaswini Ghorpade/Suhana Saini 0-3 Miwa Harimoto/Miyuu Kihara (14-16, 4-11, 6-11)
Under-19 mixed doubles
Round of 32: Payas Jain/Yashaswini Ghorpade 3-0 Danni-Elle Townsend/Finn Luu (12-10, 11-8, 11-5)
Round of 32: Suhana Saini/Simon Belik 2-3 Leonardo Iizuka/Giulia Takahashi (11-4, 11-9, 5-11, 5-11, 8-11)
Round of 16: Payas Jain/Yashaswini Ghorpade 3-0 Ivor Ban/Hana Arapovic (11-7, 11-9, 11-4)
Quarter-finals: Payas Jain/Yashaswini Ghorpade 2-3 Hoyun Lee/Daeun Lee (9-11, 11-2, 12-10, 3-11, 8-11)
Under-19 girls singles
Round of 32: Yashaswini Ghorpade 4-0 Molka Riahi (11-5, 11-4, 11-6, 11-6)
Round of 32: Suhana Saini 4-1 Roa Zaki (11-6, 6-1, 7-11, 11-8, 13-11)
Round of 16: Yashaswini Ghorpade 2-4 Annett Kaufmann (9-11, 9-11, 11-7, 4-11, 12-10, 6-11)
Round of 16: Suhana SAINI 0-4 Miwa Harimoto (1-11, 3-11, 1-11, 3-11)
Under-19 boys singles
Round of 32: Payas Jain 4-2 Finn Luu (11-6, 6-11, 9-11, 11-9, 11-8, 11-7)
Round of 16: Payas Jain 2-4 Hayate Suzuki (11-4, 7-11, 6-11, 11-1, 11-5, 11-7)
Under-15 girls doubles
Round of 16: Jennifer Varghese/Hana Goda 2-3 Habiba Elbasoumy/Phatsaraphon Wonglakhon (11-8, 9-11, 11-9, 8-11, 9-11)
Under-15 mixed doubles
Round of 32: Yassin Gaber/Jennifer Varghese (progressed with bye)
Round of 16: Yassin Gaber/Jennifer Varghese 2-3 Steven Moreno/Seungeun Lee (13-11, 8-11, 12-14, 14-12, 9-11)
Under-15 girls singles
Round of 32: Jennifer Varghese 4-1 Habiba Elbasoumy (11-8,11-6,4-11,11-4, 11-4)
Round of 16: Jennifer Varghese 0-4 Junlin Xiang (6-11,10-12, 3-11, 4-11)