Players from 38 countries will be taking part in the IV ITTF World Cadet Challenge & World Junior Circuit Finals in Santo Domingo next week. The events will showcase young talented ping- pong athletes from all over the world. The ITTF WCC was set up as a stand alone event in 2002 and is now an established meeting point for six continental teams and two national teams; all loaded with the best young players the sport can provide. The defending European team champions, England, will participate in the boys’ section, and Japan will have the honor for the girls. The event is scheduled for Sunday, 23 October through Monday, 31 October in Santo Domingo at the Parque del Este Table Tennis Pavilion, which was built for the Pan Am Games in 2003. The first twenty-two players, from Australia, New Zealand, Russia, England, Vanuatu and New Caledonia, arrived in the DR yesterday. The delegations were received at Las Americas Airport by the president of the organizing committee, business and sportsman Ramon Hipolito Mejia Gomez, and logistics coordinator Manuel Diaz Coronado.
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