India go down fighting at World Junior Championships in Poland

The 16th Women’s & 19th Men’s World Junior Individual Championships was held from 16 – 21 July 2013 followed by the 15th Women’s World Junior Team Championship from 22 – 27 July 2013 at Wroclaw, Poland.

WORLD JUNIOR INDIVIDUAL CHAMPIONSHIP

Sachika Ingale and Harshit Kaur Jawanda played superbly before going down against higher rated opponents.

Sachika defeated Canadian no.1 and [13/16] seed Hollie Naughton in the third round and was the only Indian to make the pre-Quarterfinal, going down to the top seed Nour El Sherbini of Egypt.

Harshit Kaur Jawanda took on Asian U-19 Champion Ho Ka Po of Hong Kong for a place in the last 16 however lost after winning a close first game.

Three of the four junior men could not go past round 3 at the championship. Kush Kumar lost to lower ranked Joel Makin from Wales.

RESULTS – Men’s World Junior Individual

3rd round:

[5/8] Diego Elias (PER) bt Deepak Mishra (IND) 11-3, 11-1, 10-12, 11-4 (34m)

Lyell Fuller (ENG) bt Rishi Tandon (IND) 11-4, 11-5, 12-14, 11-7 (41m)

Joel Makin (WAL) bt [9/16] Kush Kumar (IND) 11-9, 13-11, 6-11, 11-7 (64m)

2nd round:

Deepak Mishra (IND) bt Eissa Eshkanani (KUW) w/o

Rishi Tandon (IND) bt [9/16] Amaad Fareed (PAK) w/o[9/16] Kush Kumar (IND) bt Rodrigo Obregon (ARG) 11-5, 11-8, 11-7

1st round:Rishi Tandon (IND) bt Petr Zatrepalek (CZE) 11-7, 9-11, 11-6, 11-3

RESULTS – Women’s World Junior Individual

4th round:[1] Nour El Sherbini (EGY) bt Sachika Ingale (IND) 11-1, 11-3, 11-1 (21m)

3rd round:

Sachika Ingale (IND) bt [9/16] Hollie Naughton (CAN) 13-11, 4-11, 11-9, 0-11, 11-4 (36m)

Lily Taylor (ENG) bt [9/16] Lakshya Ragavendran (IND) 8-11, 11-3, 11-7, 11-5 (30m)

2nd round:Sachika Ingale (IND) bt Grace McErvale (AUS) 11-8, 11-6, 11-5

Harshit Kaur Jawanda (IND) bt Karolina Holinkova (CZE) 11-8, 11-3, 11-5 (21m)

[9/16] Lakshya Ragavendran (IND) bt Sivasangari Subramaniam (MAS) 11-8, 11-8, 5-11, 11-5 (29m)

[9/16] Vanessa Raj (MAS) bt Tanvi Khanna (IND) 11-5, 11-2, 11-2 (23m)

1st round:Tanvi Khanna (IND) bt Ayaka Shiraishi (JPN) 11-5, 11-1, 11-4

WOMEN’S WORLD JUNIOR TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP

Sixteen countries participated in the team championship held from 22-27 July 2013. Prior to the start of the champion we set a target of making it into the quarterfinals.

The final seeding placed us at no.6. In my opinion teams seeded between 5-8 were all of similar strength. After losing in the quarterfinal to Hong Kong, we were edged out by Canada 2-1 in a nail biting encounter and finally finished 7th after edging out New Zealand 2-1.

Results

7th place play off

India bt New Zealand 2-1

Sachika Ingale lost to Abbie Palmer 11-4 11-1 5-11 9-11 3-11

Harshit Kaur Jawanda beat Eleanore Epke 11-6 11-5 4-11 11-8

Lakshya Ragavendran beat Rebecca Barnett 9-11 16-14 10-12 12-10 11-9

5-8 place play off

Canada bt India 2-1

Hollie Naughton lost to Harshit Kaur Jawanda 4-11, 11-13, 10-12

Alyssa Mehta bt Lakshya Ragavendran 6-11, 11-8, 11-4, 12-10

Chloe Chemtob bt Sachika Ingale 11-2, 11-6, 7-11, 9-11, 12-10

Quarterfinals