This will be India’s first experience with table tennis team events at the Olympics. Table tennis has been a part of the Olympics curriculum since 1988. For a long period of time, the sport had four medal competitions - men’s singles, men’s doubles, women’s singles and women’s dou...
New Delhi, Apr 23: The Commonwealth Games doubles champion Sreeja Akula on Tuesday surpassed Manika Batra to become the top-ranked Indian woman table tennis player after rising to a career-high rank of 38 in the latest ITTF rankings chart. Sreeja moved up a notch while Manika, who had...
Gold Coast 2018 was special for the Indian table tennis player as Manika Batra not only helped the nation pull off a massive upset over defending champions Singapore in the women’s team event, but also became the first female Indian to win the singles title at...
India's top-ranked men's table tennis player is Sathiyan Gnanasekaran, who is rated 51st in the world, followed by Sharath Kamal, who is ranked 53rd. The seasoned pair will also compete in the men's doubles event. Apart from singles and men's doubles, Sath...
However, the Germans sealed the victory in the fourth match with Annett Kaufmann once again turned up with a big performance. She defeated Sreeja Akula, who recently achieved the highest ranking for an Indian table tennis player at world No. 22, in straight games 3-0 (11-6, 11-7, 11-...
Indian table tennis squad for Paris 2024 Olympics Men’s team: Sharath Kamal, Harmeet Desai, and Manav Thakkar; Reserve player: G. Sathiyan Men’s singles: Sharath Kamal and Harmeet Desai Women’s team: Manika Batra, Sreeja Akula, and Archana Kamath; Reserve player: Ayhika Mukherjee ...
What makes her special?Adriana Diaz became the first female Puerto Rican table tennis player to qualify for the Olympics at Rio 2016 when she was just 15 years old. Seeded 16th for the Tokyo Olympics, Adriana Diaz is now the highest-ranked non-Asian player in the world rankings. ...
TEHRAN, Jan. 09 (MNA) – Iranian table tennis player Nima Alamian defeated his rival from India at the 2024 WTT Star Contender underway in Doha, Qatar.
Sathiyan Gnanasekaran then eased past Aidos Kenzhigulov 3-1 (6-11, 11-5, 2-11, 7-11) to put India in the lead. However, Kirill, the top-ranked Kazakh singles table tennis player at world No. 40, dragged the tie to a fifth game after outplaying Sharath 3-1 (11-4, 11-9, ...
India's top-ranked women's tennis player Ankita Raina beat Adithya Karunaratne of Hong Kong 6-1, 6-2 in round 3 at the Asian Games 2023. The 30-year-old Ankita Raina, seeded third, will play sixth seed Haruka Kaji of Japan in the quarter-final at Hangzhou. ...