India’s Hansini beats Tokyo Oly youngest athlete to win ITTF title

Hansini Mathan Rajan

India's Hansini Mathan Rajan defeated Syria's Hend Zaza, the youngest athlete of this year's Tokyo Olympics, to win the girls singles event at the ITTF Hopes and Challenge TT tournament in Amman.

Playing in the U-12 category, the reigning cadet national champion outplayed Zaza 11-6, 11-8, 6-11, 11-6 in the final played on December 14. Parth Prabhakar was India's entry in the boys singles event which was won by Iran's Komeil Niknejad Divshali.

Hansini said the final was her toughest match of the competition. "I knew my opponent had gone to the Olympics earlier this year but I didn't think about that while playing her. There was no pressure and I just played my game," said Hansini, 12.

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