EUROTALENTS U-18: Four European rising stars in Tokyo

October 23, 2016
1:29 pm
Development

Medardas STANKEVICIUS of Lithuania Christian PLETEA and Adina DIACONU from Romania and Maria TAILAKOVA of Russia will spend nine days at NTC

Four European rising stars lead by prominent Coach Neven CEGNAR will spend nine days at National Training Center in Tokyo Japan as a part of recently launched project Eurotalents Development Camp U-18. They are Medardas STANKEVICIUS of Lithuania Christian PLETEA and Adina DIACONU from Romania and Maria TAILAKOVA of Russia.

According to the general agreement with Japan Table Tennis Association they will train with biggest talents of Japan from October 22nd to 31st. This project will reach the full swing from the beginning of 2017 gathering 8-10 the best players aged 15-17 years.

“We practice in the best possible conditions from 09h00-12h30 and 15h00-18h30. We would like to have JTTA as long time partner” stated Coach Neven CEGNAR who starts his 29th JTTA Campus but now has a new challenge with European talents.

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