Laurent Jutras-Vignneault and Natalie Chan win Canadian Junior titles

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The Canadian nationals are first split into two events with the senior event and then the Junior event immediately afterwards. This week, Richmond’s Olympic Oval in British Columbia was also host for the 2025 Canadian Junior Table Tennis Championships. The top prizes in the U19 Boys and U19 Girls Singles events went to Butterfly Players-Laurent Jutras-Vignneault and Natalie Chan.

Jutras-Vigneault entered the tournament as the best seed in U19 Boys-Singles, and after dropping his first game (a loss of 10-12 for Parsa Abdolahi in the second round), he won every game. That included a 3-1 victory over Abdolahi, a 3-0 win over Zonggang Li and a 3-0 win over Jason Louie, and his 3-0 finals win on the second placed Kenny Ly.

In U19 Girls Singles Natalie Chan came in as the second seed, but all five games needed to win two of her three games. After a day in the first round, Chan fell behind 0-2 to Ivy Pan before he won three in a row to continue to the semi-final. After beating Emily Liu 3-0, she continued to face the best placed sunny Zhang in the final. In that final Zhang won the first and fourth games, but Natalie Chan took the second and third and then sealed the victory with a dominant 11-4 victory in the fifth.

Sunuka Herath won both U17 boys and U15 boys. Sunny Zhang, who finished second in U19 Girls, also won the U15 Girls event. Ivy Pan won U17 girls. Shangyu Jiang won U13 guys. Amber Xihan Lin won U13 girls. Kevin Wang won U11 boys. And Olivia Ziyi Wang won U11 girls.

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