Asian youth table tennis championships | Divya Bhowmick & Priyanuj bag gold

Fresh from her U-15 gold medal at the Asian youth table tennis championships at Tashkent recently, Divyanshi Bhowmick continued her fine run to claim the U-19 girls’ title at the WTT Youth Contender in Almaty (Kazakhstan) on Saturday. She overcame Zlata Terekhova of the Russian Federation 11-4, 8-11, 11-7, 11-2 in the final.

In an all-Indian U-17 boys’ final, Priyanuj Bhattacharyya rallied to  beat P. B. Abhinandh 8-11, 11-9, 11-3, 11-6. In the U-15 girls’ final, Ananya Muralidharan went down down 8-11, 8-11, 8-11 to Lu Yu-En of Taiwan.

India wrapped up the Almaty event with a total of 11 medals—two gold, two silver, and seven bronze.