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At 1st WSF u21 World Cup, Chennai, India

Eight teams r participating in this inaugural WSF u21 World cup ... This championship will feature mixed teams of two men and a woman ... The Indian team led by WR #15 Dipika Pallikal, other members of the team r 17 yrs old Asian Junior u19 champion Anaka Alankamony, Ravi Dixit, Ramit Tandon and Karan Malik ... India is seeded 4th behind top-seed Egypt, 2nd seed England and 3rd seed ... Egypt is having very strong squad of 2 reigning world junior champions, 18 yrs old WR #41 Marwan El Shorbagy and 18 yrs old WR #20 Nour El Tayeb, WR #42 Karim Abdel Gawad, WR #78 Mohamed Abouelghar and 16 yrs old former world junior champion WR #28 Nour El Sherbini.

India is in Pool A with Egypt, tricky Australia and Germany.

Pool A
(1) Egypt, (4) India, (5) Australia and (8) Germany

Pool B
(2) England, (3) France, (6) Hong Kong, (7) Malaysia

Pool A
(4) India bt (8) Germany 3-0

Ramit Tandon (IND) bt Rudi Rohrmuller (GER) 11-2 11-5 12-10 (45m)
Dipika Pallika (IND) bt Franziska Hennes (GER) 11-2 11-4 11-7 (20m)
Karan Malik (IND) bt Valentin Rapp (GER) 11-8 11-6 11-4 (33m)

(1) Egypt bt (5) Australia 3-0

Today in their first match our team had a winning start against Germany ... We scored comfortable 3-0 victory where all matches ended in 3 straight games ... Tomorrow we r facing #1 seeded Egypt, who today defeated Australian team very convincingly where all matches ended inside 75 minutes.