Six medals for India in team events at Jordan Junior and Cadet Open

In the all-India final of the junior girls’ category on Sunday, India 2 team comprising Prapti Sen, Swastika Ghosh and Surbhi Patwari prevailed over the India 1 team of Selena Selvakumar and Yashini Sivasankar 3-1 to annexe the gold.

In the junior boys’ category, India 1 team consisting of Jeet Chandra, Manush Shah and Snehit Suravajjula went down fighting to the formidable Chinese Taipei team 1-3 to return with a silver medal. The India 2 squad consisting of Ankuram Jain, Parth Virmani and Sarthak who had qualified for the semi-finals, also lost to the eventual winner Chinese Taipei to finish their campaign with a bronze medal in the junior boys’ event.

In the cadet girls’ competition, the pair of Diya Chitale and Trisha Gogoi put up a valiant fight against the formidable Chinese team before going down with a narrow margin of 2-3 to settle for the silver. Guining Wang and Sui Xiaoran won their respective matches against Diya Chitale (30) and Trisha (3-1) to give China a healthy 2-0 lead. 

But the Indians came back stronger to win their next two matches to take the tie into the decider. Diya and Trisha won their doubles encounter 3-1 against Sui Xiaoran and Yulei Zhang, while Diya won her second singles of the night with a formidable 3-0 victory over Sui Xiaoran. 

With the scores levelled, it was down to Trisha to steer India towards the finish line but she came up short against Guining Wang and lost 0-3. The team finished with a silver. 

In the Cadet boys’ team category, Payas Jain and H. Jeho representing India 1 after their brilliant show against Sweden 3 and Iran 2 in their round of 16 clash and quarter-final clash respectively eventually lost 0-3 against Chinese Taipei in the semi-finals to bow out of the tournament with a bronze medal.