ITTF World Youth Championships 2025...

[AJ Scott]

This starts in a little over 2 hrs. from now at 2 am Sunday morning at
will go through Sunday, Nov. 30:
https://www.worldtabletennis.com/eventInfo?selectedTab=Matches&eventId=3118&innerselectedTab=Scheduled
[Sunday's schedule].  Romania is 7 hrs. ahead of us.  Though the links
aren't up yet, I believe this will be livestreamed on the ITTFWorld
YouTube channel here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujptQlPHNlg&list=PLjmb8SJ3jXkTujoyrdFr7OePmpjiVNtq0
[Youth Championships playlist].  There's 4 tables in play and, usually
at Youth events, they livestream tables 1-2.  If that's the case this
time around, then we'll be able to see Team USA U-15 Boys & Girls in
action first thing in the morning on tables 1 & 2.

https://www.worldtabletennis.com/eventInfo?selectedTab=Player%20List&eventId=3118&innerselectedTab=Scheduled
[Player list]...  As I said above, our U-15 Boys & Girls will be in
action starting at 2 am.  Click the U-15 Boys Teams and U-15 Girls Teams
to see who will be playing.  The only American player there I recognize
is little Irene Yeoh on the Girls Team.  Also, Nandan Naresh and Sally
Moyland are on the U-19 Boys and Girls Teams and will team up for the
U-19 Mixed Doubles.

I'll also be looking at Lee Seung-soo of South Korea, who is the top
seed in the singles, and Ankur Bhattacharjee, the top Indian seed.  I'll
also be looking at Benyamin Faraji, who has beaten both the World's no.
1 & 2 men, Wang Chuqin and Lin Shidong of China.  Then there's Iulian
Chirita (pronounced "YU-lee-an kee-REE-tsa") of Romania and Flavien
Coton of France who'll be running a little late as he's still in Oman
contesting the WTT Star Contender Muscat--he might miss the Team event. 
I'll also take a look at Leonardo Iizuka ("ee-ZOO-ka") of Brazil and
Tiago Abiodun of Portugal. He's the son of former Nigerian no. 3, Bode
Abiodun, who, like Quadri Aruna, resides in Portugal.

As for the U-19 Girls, I'll be watching the top seed Anna Hursey, the
"Welsh Dragon", and Sally Moyland, the US no. 1 girl and no. 3 woman and
Hana Goda, the Egyptian & African no. 1 woman & girl.  I'll also be
looking out for the all the pips-out players, as well, like Mia Griesel
of Germany (short pips/fh), the katana-penholder from Japan, Ojio Yuuna
(short pips/fh), and Kheith Cruz of the Phillipines (short pips/bh?). 
She'll also play doubles with Sally Moyland.  There's also a chopper on
the Chinese U-19 Boys team by the name of Sun Yang and on the German
U-19 Girls team by the name of Lisa Wang.  And on the Indian U-19 Girls
team there's Syndrela Das, who has short pips on the fh.

As for the U-15 Girls, I'll be watching yet another Indian chopblocker,
Divyanshi Bhowmick (long pips/bh), and a Japanese girl who plays for
Germany, Koharu Itagaki (short pips/bh).  Also, there's Irene Yeoh of
Team USA.  On the U-15 Boys side, I'll be looking out for a rare Indian
male chopblocker, Ritvik Gupta (long pips/bh) and the aforementioned Lee
Seung-soo.

[AJ Scott]

Actually, it will be livestreamed at the usual place--the WTT YouTube
channel: https://www.youtube.com/@wttglobal/streams.  It stars in 40
mins and all 4 tables will be livestreamed--not just 2.  So, perhaps the
chopblocker Ritvik Gupta will play at 2 am when the Indian U-15 Boys
take on Chinese Taipei on Table 3. Again, Team USA U-15 Boys & Girls
will be on Tables 1-2.

A few more pips-out players I forgot to mention: Zhu Ziyu (U-19 chopper)
and Yang Huize (U-15, long pips/bh--plays like He Zhuojia)--both from
China--and Lilou Massart of Belgium (short pips/fh) and Hamilton Yamane
of Brazil (chopper).

Oh, and i almost forgot to mention a guy who has a lot of
potential--Emanuel Otalvaro of Colombia.  This guy for sure will be a
top player in South America in the not-too-distant future.