Mumbai: The Indians will have an onerous task at hand when they engage themselves to take on the best of continental squads in the team events of the Reliance Asian Junior Table Tennis Championships that get underway at the Sardar Vallabhbhai Stadium here from today.

A lot will be at stake for the teams as well as the individuals in fray as only the top-four finishers in the junior sections will get automatic entry into the World Junior Championships, to be held next year at Shanghai, while it will be an Asian team that will qualify for the World Cadet Champioships to be held in Barbados next year based on the individual perforamnce.