A 10-member Indian team has left for Slovakia to participate in the Slovak Open ITTF global Junior Circuit table tennis championships. The event starts today is at Senec. The team, comprising five boys and five girls, will also travel to Wladyslawowo, Poland subsequently to play in a premium event beginning May 28. According to a statement from the Table Tennis Federation of India (TTFI), the twin tour has been orgainsed to give the junior paddlers the much-needed exposure and advanced coaching before the Asian Junior Table Tennis Championships to be held in Mumbai in September. The boys team comprising Abhiskeh Yadav, Lalrin Puia and Utkarsh Gupta and the girls squad of Ayhika Mukherjee, Priyadarshini Das and Akula Sreeja have been cleared at government cost. The TTFI statement said that two other paddlers Sabhay Virmani and Riti Shankar were part of the contingent at no cost to government. Coaches Vijayasarathi Seshadri and Jyoti Shah are accompanying the players on the twin tour which concludes on June 1.