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Surbhi, Anwesha and
Dipika
Indian
Juniors
Reddy for the challenge
"We’re blooding all our young players in this event," said SRFI
President N Ramachandran in his opening remarks today.
India's trop three juniors, Surbhi Misra, Anwesha Reddy and Dipika
Pallikal have indeed been 'thrown in at the deep end' for tomorrow's
qualifying competition, but they're all realistic, raring to go and ready
for the challenge of their first senior international event ...
 "We’re
really looking forward to this event, our first senior competition. It
will be a great experience for us."
plays Triciah Chuah |
 "Hopefully
we can all do really well, and it means we will get to see all the
world’s top players in action too."
plays Runa Reta |
 "We’ve
all been playing for four years and found out a month ago that we’d be
playing in this event. We’re all really excited and hope to do well."
plays Carla Khan |
Also in the qualifying draw
is India’s best-ever female player Joshna Chinappa. After two
British Junior Open successes and runner-up spot in the world juniors
Joshna is making the transition to the senior scene and has already played
several WISPA events.
 "I’ve
trained hard for this event, I’ve just come back from two months in
Amsterdam with Liz Irving and I played the WISPA Carcassonne and
Tranzparanz events while I was over there. I’d like to think I’ve got
a really good chance of qualifying for the main event.
"We don’t have many women players over here, and the juniors have a
long way to go but with the right guidance and training they can make
an impact and events like this can only help them to progress."
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Secunderab Club Courts
the
new courts
Raneem, Omneya & Engy
Egyptian trio prepare ...
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