Table Tennis: Uganda’s Sebatindira defeats Alexandre to defend global title | World Hopes Week & Challenge 2026

World Hopes Week and Challenge 2026 (U-12):

Boys’ singles final:

• Joseph Francis Sebatindira (Uganda)

  3-1

  Lucas Alexandre (New Zealand)

• Set scores

  : 11-08, 06-11, 11-04, 12-10

Uganda’s Joseph Sebatindira successfully accomplished his title defence in the ITTF 2026 World Hopes Week and Challenge (U-12) held at the English Institute of Sport in Sheffield, United Kingdom.

Sebatindira defeated New Zealand’s Lucas Alexandre 3-1 in a tense finale; triumphing 11-08 during the opening set.

Alexandre recovered to take the second set 11-06 and level the matters 1-all. Sebatindira established a 2-1 lead with 11-04 victory before sealing the victory 12-10 in the final set.

Sebatindira has commenced the championship with a 4-0 victory over Mexican Gabriel Alejandro during the round robin stage.

He also had identical 4-0 wins over Juan Manuel Echavarria(Columbia) and Saisurya Prasanna Kumar(England) before slipping 1-3 to New Zealand’s Matome Mongalo during the morning contests.

In the afternoon sessions, Sebatindira beat Belgian Aiden Cepeda, Egypt’s Adam Lashin, Vladimir Filimino Romanescu of Romania, Ryan Li from Ireland Rabeah Al-Kuwari of Qatar with an identical 4-0 scorelines to conclude the opening day with eight victories from nine games.

On day two, Sebatindira was unstoppable with impressive displays against Amin Salvador Lora Morales(Peru), Daniel Casquero (Spain), Hachim Tifassi Idrissi (France), Chothirun Nantachaiwut (Thailand), Arthur Xian Xiao (France), Lakshay Kumar (India), Vicente Tejeda ( Chile) and Lucas Alexandre ( New Zealand).

A total of 18 boys and 16 girls competed at this championship.

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