P.B. Abhinandh, emulating Carlos Alcaraz from last week’s French Open final, fell flat on his back as Jeet Chandra’s crosscourt forehand clipped the net and went out to seal U Mumba’s first-ever Ultimate Table Tennis (UTT) league title in front of a near-capacity crowd at the EKA Arena in Ahmedabad on Sunday. With the Mumbai-based … Read more
After the second game of her debut against Kolkata Thunder Blades’ Selena Selvakumar on Monday, Fan Siqi headed towards Chennai Lions’ team box where coach Jorg Bitzigeio was ready with the strategy for the third and final one. But the instructions had to be translated from English to Mandarin. For the first time since Wu … Read more
When other nine-year-olds in most parts of the world were developing either the required grip, confidence or intricate motor skills to graduate to writing with the pen from pencil, Bernadette Cynthia Szőcs was making the ping-pong ball turn square on the table with her paddle at CS Gloria Bistrița-Năsăud, predominantly a football club in Romania. … Read more