{"id":31532,"date":"2017-01-05T10:45:13","date_gmt":"2017-01-05T10:45:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=31532"},"modified":"2017-01-05T10:45:13","modified_gmt":"2017-01-05T10:45:13","slug":"rajasthan-look-to-defend-crown-in-junior-and-youth-national-tt-meet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=31532","title":{"rendered":"Rajasthan look to defend crown in junior and youth national TT meet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft size-full wp-image-16216\" src=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/table-tennis1.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" alt=\"table tennis1\" style=\"margin-right: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; float: left;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/table-tennis1.jpg 200w, https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/table-tennis1-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>Vadodara: Rajasthan will look to defend their title in the team events of the <a href=\"component\/tags\/tag\/319-national-ranking-table-tennis-championship\">78th Junior and Youth National Table Tennis Championships<\/a> here from Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Rajasthan won their maiden national title when their youth boys toppled a strong Maharashtra team 3-2 in Dharamsala last November.<\/p>\n<p>Maharashtra, on the other hand, can make a match of it this time provided they ward off challenges from last year&#8217;s semi-finalists Uttar Pradesh and Tamil Nadu. Delhi too have a strong team this year with game changers Payas Jain and Yashansh Malik in their ranks.<\/p>\n<p>An interesting battle is likely between North Bengal, the reigning youth girls champions, and West Bengal, who ended as runners-up last year.<\/p>\n<p>The West Bengal squad has a new look with Prapti Sen joining Kaushani Nath and Moumita Datta. Yet North Bengal has the wherewithal to put up a good fight and win the trophy if Sagarika Mukherjee and Anushka Dutta can produce the goods.<\/p>\n<p>The fare in junior boys, too, will be equally enthralling as West Bengal and Petroleum Sports Promotion Board (PSPB) Academy boys are expected to maintain their supremacy.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Also read:&nbsp;<a href=\"tennis-news\/international\/43084-konta-beats-pliskova-6-4-6-7-11-6-3-to-enter-shenzhen-open-semis\">Konta beats Pliskova 6-4, 6-7 (11), 6-3 to enter Shenzhen Open semis<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>But one cannot rule out the abilities of paddlers from Tamil Nadu or Delhi, the two semi-finalists, along with Karnataka, Telangana, North Bengal and Gujarat, who were the quarter-finalists.<\/p>\n<p>As for junior girls, Maharashtra looks to be the team to beat though they finished runners-up behind Telangana in the last edition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft size-full wp-image-16216\" src=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/table-tennis1.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" alt=\"table tennis1\" style=\"margin-right: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; float: left;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/table-tennis1.jpg 200w, https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/table-tennis1-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>Vadodara: Rajasthan will look to defend their title in the team events of the <a href=\"component\/tags\/tag\/319-national-ranking-table-tennis-championship\">78th Junior and Youth National Table Tennis Championships<\/a> here from Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Rajasthan won their maiden national title when their youth boys toppled a strong Maharashtra team 3-2 in Dharamsala last November.<\/p>\n<p>Maharashtra, on the other hand, can make a match of it this time provided they ward off challenges from last year&#8217;s semi-finalists Uttar Pradesh and Tamil Nadu. Delhi too have a strong team this year with game changers Payas Jain and Yashansh Malik in their ranks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16216,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[97],"tags":[20205,483,7479,20206,12544],"class_list":["post-31532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-table-tennis-table-tennis","tag-anushka-dutta","tag-petroleum-sports-promotion-board","tag-sagarika-mukherjee","tag-table-tennies-news","tag-youth-national-table-tennis-championships"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Rajasthan look to defend crown in junior and youth national TT meet - IndianSportsNews.com - Latest Updated Sports News &amp; Sports Blogs of Cricket, Hockey, Golf, Football, Tennis &amp; Other Sports<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=31532\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Rajasthan look to defend crown in junior and youth national TT meet - IndianSportsNews.com - Latest Updated Sports News &amp; Sports Blogs of Cricket, Hockey, Golf, Football, Tennis &amp; Other Sports\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Vadodara: Rajasthan will look to defend their title in the team events of the 78th Junior and Youth National Table Tennis Championships here from Friday. 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