The 2017 International Table Tennis World Cadet Challenge is set to start next week.

Fiji Table Tennis Federation President Anthony Ho says, they have done their best to provide an international stage.

“We’ve been preparing well for this challenge as we are hosting 42 countries which we need a world class stage so we’re fine now and we’re ok to run this challenge.”

The association had earlier received $450,000 from the Fiji National Sports Commission to host the event.

Teams have started arriving in the country yesterday and others are expected to arrive tomorrow before the challenge kicks off next Tuesday.