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[ad_1] Both the Indian men's and women's teams ended their challenge at the ongoing World Team Table Tennis Championships after defeats to South Korea and Chinese Taipei respectively on Wednesday. Moving to the quarterfinals would have ensured an Olympics 2024 quota for both Indian teams, but the dreams of earning a direct qualification through this tournament is over. However, India can still fulfill its Paris 2024 dream depending on their world ranking at the month-end. The men's team was defeated by South Korea 3-0. Harmeet Desai started for India against Jang Woojin. However, the Sou...

[ad_1] Harmeet Desai won the decisive fifth rubber to steer Indian men's team to pre-quarterfinals while the women's team strolled into the last-16 stage of the World Table Tennis Team Championships with an easy 3-0 victory in Busan, South Korea on Wednesday. The men's team had to toil hard to edge Kazakhstan 3-2 but the women's team had an easy day out as it blanked Italy 3-0 to move to the next round. The men's team will now compete against the powerful South Koreans while the women will take on Chinese-Taipei, later on Wednesday. Harmeet lost the opening match 2-3 to Kirill Gerassimen...

[ad_1] Busan: The Indian men's and women's sides registered contrasting wins in their final group games to progress to the knock-out phase of the Word Table Tennis Team Championships on Tuesday. While the Indian women's team pulled off a thrilling come-from-behind 3-2 victory over Spain, the men's side brushed aside New Zealand 3-0. The Indian women's team, the stronger side on paper, were pushed against the wall but found a way to scrape past the Spaniards after Sreeja Akula and Manika Batra lost the first two singles of the tie. After Ayhika Mukherjee kept India in the contest with a wi...

[ad_1] In a world where life's unpredictable turns often rewrite destinies, Haryana's Sandeep Dangi's narrative stands as a testament to resilience, courage, and an unyielding spirit that refuses to be defined by circumstances. A Para Asian Games bronze medallist at Hangzhou 2023, Dangi, who won bronze medal in the Class-1 category of the table tennis at the inaugural Khelo India Para Games, was once destined for an academic journey leading to a promising future in pursuit of a PhD. But fate charted an unforeseen path for the 36-year-old, who holds both BTech and MTech degrees.A near-fatal car accident in 2016 altered the course of Sandeep Dangi's life dramatically. He was left 90% paralyses with an uncertain future staring at him. But Dangi showed the power of the mind to not only adjus...

[ad_1] Manav Thakkar wore down veteran Sharath Kamal in a gripping men's singles final at the UTT National Ranking Championships on Tuesday. Diya Chitale defeated her RBI colleague and national champion Sreeja Akula 4-1 to win the women's singles crown. Both the winners took home Rs 77,000 each for their efforts. Manav was sitting pretty with a 2-1 lead. But Sharath gave it back to his PSPB colleague with precise placements and excellent execution of backhand strokes to go 3-2 up.Manav was all at sea, unable to counter Sharath. However, his late charge in the sixth game and his 14-12 win on the fourth game point was good enough to drain the veteran out.Manav upped the ante in the decider to wear Sharath down for the title.The women's final did not raise any din as Diya Chitale defeated R...

[ad_1] India's leading table tennis player Harmeet Desai feels he has been "unfairly" left out of the singles competition for the upcoming Asian Games in Hangzhou. Harmeet, an important member of the Indian table tennis team over the last 10 years, has been picked in the Asian Games squad but will only feature in team and mixed doubles events. Veteran Sharath Kamal and G Sathiyan have been picked ahead of Desai for the singles competition as only two entries are allowed. "It is going to be my third Asian Games and as per the selection criteria, which includes both domestic and international performances, I should be playing singles as well and not just team and doubles," Harmeet told PTI.The 29-year-old from Surat on Tuesday became the highest-ranked Indian at the back of a productive la...

[ad_1] File photo of Manika Batra.© AFPIndian table tennis player Manika Batra progressed to the Pre-Quarterfinal of the WTT Contender Zagreb after winning in the first round. Manika defeated a lower-ranked paddler from Croatia Hana Arapovic with 3-1 at the Dom Sportova. Manika will now take on World ranked 11 Shin Yubin of Korea on Friday. On the other, Sutirtha Mukherjee bowed out of the tournament after losing 0-3 to the higher-ranked Korean paddler Yang Ha Eun in 1st round. In Men's single, Sharath Kamal Achanta won his first round against Lilian Bardet in a close battle by 3-2.On the other, Harmeet Desai and Sharath were beaten up in the first round by Chinese duo Lin Gaoyuan and Liang Jingkun by 0-3.In the women's double, Sutirtha-Ayhika Mukherjee lost to Croatia pair Mateja Jeger-...

[ad_1] File image of G Sathiyan© AFPIndia's G Sathiyan advanced to the pre-quarterfinals of men's doubles and mixed doubles alongside Sharath Kamal and Manika Batra respectively at the World Table Tennis Championships in Durban on Monday. Sathiyan and Sharath beat the Hungarian-Danish combine of Bence Majoros and Anders Lind 11-5, 11-4, 15-13 in a round of 32 contest. Later on Monday, Sathiyan teamed up with Manika to outplay Brazil's Eric Jouti and Lucakumahara 8-11, 11-7, 11-6, 11-6 in a round of 32 mixed doubles clash.However, veteran Sharath suffered a second round loss in the singles competition to Korea's Lee Sang Su. The 56th ranked lost to the 33rd-ranked player in straight games with the scoreline reading 11-4, 13-11, 11-8, 12-10 in favour of the Korean.Reigning national champio...