The Junior Pickleball Championship closed on Sunday with 19 of its 20 titles decided — and the U14 and U18 singles and doubles that directly pick India's World Cup squads all settled.
Veer Shah, the 2025 World Cup Junior MVP, was the weekend's defining player: five titles in all — U16 singles, U14 mixed, U14 singles, plus the U14 boys doubles with Aarin Ballani and the U16 boys doubles with Vivan Patel. In the U18s, Arjun Singh swept the boys' draws, taking the singles over Vivan Patel, the doubles with brother Aditya Singh, and the mixed alongside Naomi Amalsadiwala.
Among the girls, Aashrithaa added the U14 singles to her U16 crown, Mahika Rathod won the U14 doubles with Maanasi Karthik, Diya Mattipati took the U18 singles, and Minal Shaik Kalyan & Ashritha Raju the U18 doubles. With the merit-based results in, attention turns to the IPA's official squad announcement for Da Nang.
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