India head coach Massimo Costantini, who had just returned to India with the national table tennis team after a week-long training camp in Sweden, said he’s looking forward to some exciting rounds of table tennis, with the WTT Star Contender Chennai set to begin on Thursday. The 66-year-old Italian picked Japan’s Tomokazu Harimoto and Hina … Read more
Achanta Sharath Kamal, India’s most celebrated paddler, has announced his retirement from table tennis with the upcoming WTT (World Table Tennis) Star Contender in Chennai set to be his last outing. The 10-time National singles champion must be a content man. At 42, the five-time Olympian is the highest-ranked Indian in the world – 42nd … Read more
ICC T20 World Cup 2024: All 20 teams to qualify for men’s T20 WC
Achanta Sharath Kamal is set to retire from table tennis at a time when the sport is probably getting the sustained attention it has never experienced before. The country has been performing well and breaking new ground at the international level. It has also a popular franchise league in Ultimate Table Tennis. To a large … Read more
The T20 World Cup in June will be an unforgettable party with strong Caribbean flavours that will help plant cricket firmly in the U.S. sporting landscape, tournament director Fawwaz Baksh said. Six Caribbean countries will co-host the tournament along with the United States, a market that cricket’s powerbrokers see as crucial if it is to … Read more
India: Rohit Sharma (c), Yashasvi Jaiswal, Virat Kohli, Suryakumar Yadav, Rishabh Pant, Sanju Samson, Hardik Pandya (VC), Shivam Dube, Ravindra Jadeja, Axar Patel, Kuldeep Yadav, Yuzvendra Chahal, Arshdeep Singh, Jasprit Bumrah, Mohammed Siraj. Reserves: Shubman Gill, Rinku Singh, Khaleel Ahmed and Avesh Khan. Bangladesh: Najmul Hossain Shanto (captain), Taskin Ahmed, Litton Das, Soumya Sarkar, Tanzid … 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
