Nova Gorica (Slovenia) hosts the World Youth Table Tennis Championships, El.kz reports with reference to olympic.kz.
The international duo of Alan Kurmangaliyev (207th in the world ranking) and Tom Closet (215th, Belgium) faced the Australians of Chinese descent Lum (34th)/Finn Luu (52nd). The match ended with a score of 3:2 in favor of Australia.
In the girls' tournament, Sarvinoz Mirkadirova/Hana Arapovich (Kazakhstan/Croatia) lost to Indian athletes Suhana Saini/Yashasvini Ghorpada 1:3.