India’s Yashaswini Ghorpade and Diya Chitale entered the round of 16 of the women’s doubles event at the Table Tennis World Championships 2025 in Doha on Monday. The Indian pair beat Singapore’s Zeng Jian and Zhang Wanlin 3-1 (6-11, 11-6, 11-6, 11-9) in the round of 32. Chitale though, stumbled in the round of 32 in … Read more
Indian paddlers Manika Batra and Manav Thakkar began their singles campaign on a winning note on Sunday while Ankur Bhattacharjee bowed out in the first round at the Table Tennis World Championships in Doha, Qatar. Manika won her first-round fixture 4-0 (11-5, 11-6, 11-8, 11-2) against Fatima Bello of Nigeria in 23 minutes. The 22nd-seeded … Read more
Indian women’s doubles pairs of Ayhika Mukherjee/Sutirtha Mukherjee and Yashaswini Ghorpade/Diya Chitale won their respective Round of 64 matches while Sreeja Akula was knocked out at the Table Tennis World Championships 2025 in Doha on Saturday. Sreeja started on the right foot by winning the first game but Thailand’s Suthasini Sawettabut rallied back and won … Read more
Indian girls grabbed all podium spots in U-19 and U-15 categories to help the country’s paddlers win a rich haul of 27 medals, including six gold in the WTT Youth Contender in Dammam, Saudi Arabia. Besides six golds, the Indians bagged seven silver and 14 bronze medals. While the competition did not feature key players … Read more
Just like badminton, table tennis was also another sport to be axed from the list of disciplines of the upcoming 2026 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Scotland. Despite this exclusion, Indian table tennis ticked off a number of firsts this year, with a couple of international stars calling time on their illustrious careers. Here are some … Read more
Achanta Sharath Kamal felt that playing a foreigner would have allowed him to express himself in a better way after a straight-games loss to Snehit Suravajjula in the round of 16 at the WTT Star Contender in Chennai brought the curtain down on his table tennis career on Saturday. Playing in front of 600-odd spectators, … Read more
Ultimate Table Tennis (UTT) has added a new franchise, Kolkata ThunderBlades, ahead of its sixth edition. The season will also see Puneri Paltan in a revamped avatar as PBG Pune Jaguars. Matches will take place in Ahmedabad, a first-time venue, from May 29 to June 15. Co-owned by the Uneecops Group and MVikas Group, Kolkata … Read more
On a day when Achanta Sharath Kamal, 42, began the last tournament of his professional career, 14-year-old Divyanshi Bhowmick took her first steps at the senior level with a performance that defied her age. Two matches before Sharath’s much-awaited men’s singles opener against Anirban Ghosh, Divyanshi stepped onto the show court at the Nehru Indoor … Read more