ITSF World Cup: Junior Competition

Location: Nantes, France

Further Information: http://www.itsfworldtour.com/tournaments.php?tour=2010&id=325

Live Streaming: http://www.itsfworldtour.com/tournaments/videos.php?tour=2010&id=325

The ITSF World Cup, now a regular January event in the north-westerly French city of Nantes, is the culmination of a year's worth of ITSF tournaments and represents the ultimate level of national competition and achievement with matches played on all five ITSF official tables: Bonzini, Garlando, Roberto Sport, Tecball and Tornado. This year there are national team competitions in four distinct categories: Men, Women, Senior and Junior. Each team picks its own home table from the five to play half of its matches on, with the other half played on the opponent's table.

The Great Britain Junior team, as is normal thanks to the age-restricted nature of the classification, is completely different to last year's now that the previous squad members have come of age. We will be sending a team of four, all of whom will play in every match. Whilst we have not had much success in previous years in this classification, a completely new squad will no doubt add an unpredictable element to proceedings.

The draws for the group stages of the World Cup were held on the 30th of November, live on local French television. The Junior team group is shown below:

Group Stage

• Great Britain
• USA
• Netherlands