Artem Paramonychev for BTRUSSIA
We arrived to the European championship in Bulgaria, our Juniors have 4 teams: two teams of girls and two teams of boys. In the boys teams we have older players and juniors who took the 2 place on the world championship. In the girls teams also play girls, vice-champions and Champions of the world Cup. Other countries brought older players (around 18 years), and we have a 14-year-old players too, but we still hope that our juniors will be able to provide decent resistance and defeat many opponents. The strongest opponent is Italy, which brought the strongest team (world Champions). We also had loss in our team – no Anton Arzhankin, although he played the Junior world championship. He's 13 years old, and according to the rules of the European championship, only players from 14 years can participate the tournament, without any exceptions. I hope that next year we have no such problem anymore.