In the youth girls (U-21) singles final, the 16-year-old paddler had to put some fight during her 10-12, 11-8, 19-17, 11-6, 11-6 win against Surbhi Patwari of Bengal. In the junior boys singles, Delhi’s Payas Jain emerged champion after beating state-mate Yashansh Malik 11-8, 9-11, 11-9, 11-7, 11-7 in the final. The former national junior No 3 says she is proud to be doctor. When Cal (with his mom, Jennifer) first moved to the suburbs from the city, “he was in sensory overload,” she says. Wang attended individual events (at the World Table Tennis Championships in Budapest) for the first time last year and he won men's doubles title pairing Ma Long. Just bought a fresh apple in the market but need to wash it first. This table tennis spot is located inside Berts Warehouse at Eastern Market. Indian doubles pair of Achanta Sharath Kamal and Gnanasekaran Sathiyan entered Top-20 in the latest International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF)’s men doubles world ranking.

The Kolkata-based paddler is now the second highest-ranked Indian woman in the world rankings after Manika Batra, who went five places up to secure 62nd position. The Kolkata paddler is now the second highest ranked Indian woman in the world rankings after Manika Batra, who went five places up to secure 62nd position. “He is a unique player, who represented India in the world junior meet. Another notable progress for India is Sutirtha Mukherjee who took a giant leap of 51 spots in the women’s singles ranking that saw her claiming career-best 109th ranked. The year also saw paddlers produce memorable performances despite the lack of a full-time coach. India’s excellent performances at the Commonwealth and Asian Games marked 2018, 2019 was mainly about Sathiyan making his mark at the highest level where he defeated quite a few top-20 players, including World No. 5 and young Japanese teenage sensation Harimoto Tomokazu.

Mukherjee has been impressive in the recent past with notable performances during Olympics Team qualifying event, Hungarian Open and Portugal Open. Nikhil Kumar and Zhou Xin joined the already qualified Rio Olympian Kanak Jha on the men’s team. Harimoto will be joined by No. 15 Koki Niwa and No. 16 Jun Mizutani in the men's team while the women's team is made up of No. 3 Mima Ito, No. 9 Kasumi Ishikawa and No. 11 Miu Hirano, according to the Japanese Table Tennis Association. We are also doing well as a team and that gives us confidence going into the Olympics qualifiers,” Sathiyan told PTI. I have a good chance in singles qualification for the Olympics. The squad, which is without a coach for the past 16 months, is assembling in Chennai later this week to prepare for the all-important Olympic qualification event. With no doubt admirable intentions, the World Boxing Council (WBC) held a press conference last week. The much younger Sathiyan played in 11 World Tour events where he got the better of many established names in the business. Even if the Indians manage to put it across Sweden, ranked No. 22, they would next run into Romania, the fifth-seeded squad, additional resources and ranked No. 8 in the world.

“Please stay at home, avoid going out even to the hospitals for minor issues, and contact your family doctor over phone. The sprightly G. Sathiyan came of age this year to take over the leadership mantle in Indian table tennis from veteran A. Sharath Kamal. With the help of UTT, the academies are getting specialised physios, mental conditioning coaches, nutritionists which are helping paddlers perform better at the national and international level right from a young age. So which one is right for you? They had one table. “I’ve always, way back, thought that having table tennis with a bar and drinks would be really cool. I showed up. There was a lot of cool people hanging out and drinking. I met a lot of really cool people who just loved to play ping-pong, have fun and listen to music. Off the court, the 24-year-old from Delhi had a lot going on as she split with her childhood coach Sandeep Gupta citing stagnancy in her game.