The 2019 ITTF World Cadet Challenge will be staged in Wladyslawowo, Poland from Wednesday 23rd to Thursday 31st October. Sophie Early will Represent the World Hope’s Team for the second time and take on the best cadets (U15) the planet has to offer.

The ITTF High Performance evaluated the players and invited those ranked no.1 to no.8 on the final standings at last year’s ITTF World Hopes Week and Challenge to a selection camp in Shanghai, China. Selection was based on training and competition performance at several activities throughout the season.

The following players will participate and represent the Hopes Programme at the 2019 ITTF World Cadet Challenge:

Girls:
EARLEY Sophie (IRL) – EUROPE
LEE Xin Ni (MAS) – ASIA
SER Lin Qian (SGP) – ASIA
TAN Emily (USA) – NORTH AMERICA
Reserve:
SAINI Suhana (IND) – ASIA

Boys:
BERZOSA Daniel (ESP) – EUROPE
CHIRITA Iulian (ROU) – EUROPE
QUEK Yong Izaac (SGP) – ASIA
GUBRAN Ebrahim (YEM) – ASIA
Reserve:
IZUKA Leonardo (BRA) – LATIN AMERICA

This is truly a remarkable achievement to represent the Hope’s team at the World Cadet Challenge for a second time.
We would like to wish Sophie all the very best and you can be sure she is training extremely hard currently at the 3 week long Ormeau training camps!