Thursday, March 27, 2008
India gives up 2011 World Junior TT bid to Bahrain
Bahrain is to host the 2011 World Junior Table Tennis Championships after India withdrew from the bidding proces on the request of the Asian Table Tennis Federation (ATTF).
"On the request of the ATTF, we withdrew from the bidding process and unanimously decided to give Bahrain the chance," said Dhanraj Choudhary, Technical Committee chairman at the Table Tennis Federation of India(TTFI).
"It was our goodwill gesture towards ATTF as the federation had earlier helped us in getting the 2009 Asian Championships over Kuwait," he said.
Choudhary also said that the venue of this year's Indian Open Table Tennis Championship, to be held between October 29 to November 2, had been shifted to Indore.
The inaugural Indian Open had been held in New Delhi last year.
"There is hardly any place available in Delhi as all the stadiums here are under renovation for the 2010 Commonwealth Games," Choudhary said.
[Posted by S]
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