TTT31. Summer 2023
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European Under 13 Championships: Zagreb, Croatia: 14 th -18 th June <strong>2023</strong><br />
All photos by Robert Valai, courtesy of the ETTU<br />
England entered three boys but no girls. Adam Alibhai, Kacper Piwowar and Abraham Sellado were the players.<br />
Piwowar was ranked fifth, Sellado ninth and Alibhai 30 th .<br />
There were four events – Mixed Team, Boys’ Singles, Girls’ Singles and Mixed Doubles. As thee were no English<br />
girls our players were not able to participate in the Team event. Piwowar and Sellado did pair up with two<br />
Croatian players for the Mixed Doubles which meant they were able to play in two events and Alibhai in just<br />
the one.<br />
The tournament began on 14 th June with the Team event and the individual events commenced Friday, 17 th<br />
June, groups for the singles and a straight knockout for the doubles.<br />
All three boys qualified from their groups for the ‘A’ knock-out rounds with Piwowar and Sellado winning their<br />
groups and Alibhai runner-up in his group. This meant Piwowar and Sellado had a bye in their first-round<br />
knockout matches whilst Alibhai won his round of 64 match. Both Alibhai and Sellado went out in the next<br />
round but Piwowar went on to the quarter-finals before he met defeat.<br />
Adam Alibhai, Kacper Piwowar, Abraham Sellado<br />
In the Mixed Doubles Piwowar and Sellado both played with Croatians: Piwowar with Lana Benko and Sellado<br />
with Viktorija Oslakovic. They both had byes in the first round, round of 128. Sellado and Oslakovic went out<br />
in the next round and Piwowar with Benko made it through to the round of 16.<br />
There certainly looks some promise in this group of boys who competed well in this first European Under 13<br />
Championships.<br />
Making new friends<br />
The Mixed Team event was won by Turkiye who beat Italy in the final. Spain and Germany were the semifinalists.<br />
The Boys’ Singles was an all-Italian affair with Danilo Faso beating Francesco Trevisan. It was a French<br />
victory in the Junior Girls’ Singles as Alexia Nodin beat Czech Republic’s Hanka Kodetova and in the Mixed<br />
Doubles a second win for France as Titouan Morel-Gonzalez and Eva Lam beat Poland’s Jan Mrugala and Julia<br />
Czaja.<br />
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