Romanian tennis player Iulian Chiri\u021b\u0103 secured two medals at the ITTF World Youth Championships 2025 in Cluj-Napoca, after qualifying for the finals in the mixed and men\u2019s doubles.\u00a0<\/p>\n
In mixed doubles in the Under-19 juniors\u2019 competition, Chiri\u021b\u0103 and Welsh player Anna Hursey defeated the French pair Flavien Coton\/Leana Hochart 3-2 in the quarterfinals, and in the semifinals, they beat the Japanese players Ryuusei Kawakami\/Sachi Aoki 3-1, according to Agerpres<\/a>.<\/p>\n On Friday, November 28, Chiri\u021b\u0103 and Hursey will meet China’s Hechen Li\/Yuxuan Qin in the final.<\/p>\n In the men\u2019s doubles event, Iulian Chiri\u021b\u0103 and the Portuguese player Tiago Abiodun qualified for the semifinals, where they will face the Japanese pair Ryuusei Kawakami\/Kazuki Yoshiyama, also on Friday.<\/p>\n Chiri\u021b\u0103 and Abiodun defeated the pair Alan Kurmangaliev (Kazakhstan)\/Benyamin Faraji (Iran) 3-0 in the round of 16, and in the quarterfinals, they prevailed over India\u2019s Ankur Bhattacharjee\/Abhinandh Pradhivadhi (India) 3-0.<\/p>\n In another round of 16 match, Drago\u0219 Bujor and Poland\u2019s Rafal Formela lost to the Taiwanese players Guan-Hong Kuo\/Hsien-Chia Hsu 1-3.<\/p>\n In the Under-19 girls\u2019 competition, in the round of 16, Alesia Sferlea and the Pole Karolina Holda were defeated by the pair Lilou Massart (Belgium)\/Maria Berzosa (Spain) 1-3, and Bianca Mei-Ro\u0219u and the Slovenian Sara Tokic lost to the Japanese players Sachi Aoki\/Yuna Ojio 0-3.<\/p>\n In Under-15, in the boys\u2019 doubles event, Andrei \u021a\u00eeb\u00eern\u0103 and Raul Creucu lost in the round of 16 to the Italians Francesco Trevisan\/Danilo Faso 1-3.<\/p>\n In the girls\u2019 event, Patricia Stoica and the Czech player Hanka Kodet were defeated in the quarterfinals by the Chinese players Qihui Zhu\/Ziling Liu 3-0, after winning 3-0 against the pair Sum Lok Yuen\/Yee Lam Yeung (Hong Kong).<\/p>\n Maya Madar and the Austrian Mariia Lytvyn lost in the round of 16 to the Algerian pair Jade Morice\/Tania Morice 0-3.<\/p>\n