Bourna and molding in Italy at the inauguration of Para Future Tournaments

The Future of ITTF future began, one of the three levels of individual tournaments announced last November in the structure of the new World Para Circuit of the World Ping Pong Federation for people with disabilities. The event will last until next Sunday, and Evanthia-Irene Bournia and George Mouhthi are checking their racing situation.

The young Bournia is involved in the 3 -wheeled athlete class, her attempt abroad has always been very difficult since she changed the category and “hunts” the best place. Muhtheus is in Class 6 of the Orthodians, took part in the groups and, despite the very good effort, was unable to proceed to the board.

The city of northeast Italy has a tradition with the celebration of international table tennis matches at various levels and now with the “ITTF World Para Future Lignano 2025” launches a new track with 197 entries from five continents.

Following the Paris Paralympic Games, which referred to gender equality and promoted innovation in accessibility, ITTF announced a refreshed form for Para Tt Tournaments to give even greater impetus to the sport around the world. ITTF’s World Para Circuit includes three separate levels: Future, Challengers and Elite.

As the Federation explains, “Future is designed as a development point for rising talents to improve their skills on the international stage and to build their classification. Challenger is the next step. The matches will be greater and greater. With up to eight Challenger events in 2025, each promises to create great stories and develop exciting rivalries.

At Elite you can expect to meet the best Para Table Tennis players. Huge matches, moments of pure magic and exciting competition are all guaranteed. ”

Each event gives valuable points to the world rankings and our two champions also had this in mind, stating participating in the Italian Open. Four group qualifiers took place in Class 6 of men. Muhtheus was led in the fourth and was eliminated in third place, having 1 win and 2 defeats.

For the first match, British Samuel-Jacob Wicks paid 3-1 set (11-6, 11-7, 1-11, 11-7) on Thursday morning. In the second race he had a balanced clash with Polish Madurz, he found himself in the sets twice and equalized equal to finally defeating 3-2 sets (10-12, 11-7, 9-11, 11-3, 9-11).

Early on Thursday night, the race with Serbian Lucas Vidolic was crucial to qualifying. Mukthi did not have the same stability in his performance and lost 3-0 (7-11, 4-11, 3-11).

In class 3 of women, a single group of five athletes was created and Bournia was in charge. On Thursday, he gave two games, he fought, but he couldn’t achieve something meaningful, so he would claim the most he could. Bournnae first lost to Italian Michela Brunelli 3-0 (7-11, 8-11, 7-11) and in the evening by Turkala Negiz Altintaz with 3-1 set (7-11, 3-11, 13-11, 3-11).

On Friday, the “bronze” world champion in 2022 in Class 1 and Europe in 2023 in Class 2 will meet the Turkish Hattis Duman and Italian Kariota Ragatsini.