Yavari seals spot at ITTF World Youth Championships
Iranian table tennis player Vania Yavari secured a quota for the upcoming ITTF World Youth Championships, the international governing body of the sport.
Yavari will part of the under-15 girls’ singles draw at the world event – starting November 23 in Cluj Napoca, Romania – thanks to her 50th spot at the latest World Youth Rankings, released on Tuesday.
The Iranian girl will compete fresh off an impressive run of results at the international events in recent months, including two runner-up trophy-winning campaigns at the WTT Youth Contender event in Cappadocia, Türkiye, in February.
The Iranian under-15 team and Benyamin Faraji had already punched their tickets for the competition.
Faraji etched his name into history books of the Iranian sport by winning the U15 boys’ singles bronze in last year’s competition in Helsingborg, Sweden – the country’s first-ever table tennis medal at an international tournament.