India’s Priyanuj Bhattacharya, Japan’s Miku Matsushima Win U-19 Singles Titles at WTT Youth Contender Vadodara

India’s Priyanuj Bhattacharya and Japan’s Miku Matshusima registered contrasting victories to clinch the U-19 boys and U-19 girls singles title in the WTT Youth Contender 2026, presented by Sports Authority of Gujarat, at the SAMA Indoor Sports Complex here on Monday.

Sreejani Chakraborty and Aditya Das were crowned the U-15 girls and U-15 boys champions while Aadya Baheti and Rajdeep Biswas won the titles in the U-11 category.

The second edition of the WTT Youth Contender in Vadodara presented by Sports Authority of Gujarat is being hosted by Table Tennis Association of Baroda and implemented by UTT will feature a total of 226 players competing across U-11 to U-19 age categories.

In the U-19 boys final, Priyanuj kept his nerves during clutch points to beat Sarthak Arya 12-10, 11-8, 14-12 while Miku fought back from a 1-2 deficit to beat top seed Divyanshi Bhowmick 11-6, 9-11, 9-11, 11-8, 11-3.

Boys top seed Abhinandh Pradhivadhi was knocked out in the quarterfinals by Naman Bhatnagar, who then lost to Priyanuj in the semifinals.

In the girls U-19 category, Miku knocked out another top Indian junior Jennifer Varghese 6-11, 12-10, 8-11, 11-4, 11-7 in the semifinals.

Jennifer had earlier defeated defending champion

Syndrela Das in the quarterfinals. Syndrela had earlier won the girls U-17 singles and U-19 mixed doubles titles in this edition of WTT Youth Contender.

Earlier, Aadya defeated Sakshya Santosh 15-13, 11-8, 12-10 to win the girls U-11 title while Biswas got the better of Sharvil Karambelkar 11-8, 11-6, 11-13, 11-4 to win the u-11 boys singles final.

In the boy’s U-15 event, top seed Aditya Das dominated the final against Sanjay Jagdish to register a 11-4, 11-9, 11-8 win.

On the other hand, the girls U-15 final went to the wire with Sreejani prevailing 8-11, 11-8, 7-11, 11-7, 11-5.