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Tanvee Vallem to represent India at U19 10-ball World Junior Championship
In the past year, she has recorded a series of competitive results, finishing fourth at the 2025 BEF Junior National 9-Ball Championship in the 14U girls division.
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Staff Reporter - Thu, 20, Nov 2025
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Tanvee Vallem / Image courtesy: Veeresh Vallem
Twelve-year-old billiards player Tanvee Vallem will compete in the 2025 World Junior Championship in Gandia, Spain, entering the U19 Girls Division as one of the youngest participants ever recorded in the category.
The event, scheduled Nov. 28 to Dec. 2, will see her represent India in a field usually dominated by older teenagers.
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The Indian American is a sixth grader at Westland Middle IB World School and has been training in cue sports since 2022, after her father, Sree Vallem, brought home a pool table. She later joined the Billiard Education Foundation’s Break and Run programme, where she trains under Master Coach Roy Pastor.
In the past year, she has recorded a series of competitive results. She finished fourth at the 2025 BEF Junior National 9-Ball Championship in the 14U girls division. At the Connecticut State Championships, she won both the 14U mixed and 18U girls categories.
She also secured the New England Regional Championship title in the 14U division and placed third at the New Hampshire State Championships in the 18U girls and 14U mixed divisions.
Her upcoming participation in Gandia extends her run of international appearances. Vallem represented India at the Predator World Junior 9-Ball Championship in Puerto Rico in 2022, the WPA World 10-Ball Junior Championship in Austria in 2023, and the Predator WPA World Junior Championships in New Zealand in 2024.
She is regarded by cue sport officials as the youngest competitor to appear in the world junior circuit for three consecutive years.
She drew further attention in the cue sports community when a video of her playing against veteran player Efren “Bata” Reyes crossed one million views on YouTube.
Beyond the sport, she holds a red belt in taekwondo, is learning Kuchipudi, and pursues crocheting alongside academic work.
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