Anna Hursey heading to World Youth Championships

Welsh star Anna Hursey is heading off to the 2024 ITTF World Youth Championships in Helsingborg, Sweden this weekend. 

Competing in the U19 Girls, U19 Doubles and U19 Mixed Doubles, Anna looks set to begin her campaign on Sunday 24 November.

In the U19 Doubles event, Anna will once again look for success with Germany’s Annett Kaufmann, with whom she achieved a second-placed finish in the 2023 World Youth Championships. The pair will be hoping to upgrade last year’s silver to a gold this time around, as they kick things off in the round of 16 against Alice Nilsson and Agnes Svensson in their home nation.  

Interestingly, Anna and Annett will come together at opposite ends of the table in the U19 Girls Singles event. The Doubles pairing will battle it out amongst them for a place in the last 16 of the competition, having been drawn against each other in the round of 32.

Meanwhile, Anna will also be competing in the U19 Mixed Doubles event, joining forces with Austria’s Nicholas Lumm. They face Belgium’s Lilou Massart and Darius Movileanu of Romania in their opening fixture of the competition.