Sreeja Akula, fresh off two straight victories in singles, would probably rank Thursday’s win at the Ultimate Table Tennis season 6 the highest. She took down Bernadette Szocs, World No. 12 and the highest-ranked player in the league, as Jaipur Patriots edged U Mumba 8-7 in front of barely 100 people at the EKA Arena. … 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
Manav Thakkar and Manush Shah rose to 11th spot in men’s doubles in the latest ITTF rankings released on Tuesday. The Indian duo of Manav and Manush reached the quarterfinals of the recently concluded China Smash tournament and as a result, jumped five spots. Eighth seeded Manav and Manush received a bye in the opening … Read more
Ayhika Mukherjee saved India’s blushes after she came from behind to help the women’s team beat South Korea 3-2 in the quarterfinals of the Asian Table Tennis Championships 2024 in Astana, Kazakhstan on Tuesday. With this win, the Indian women’s team confirmed its first-ever medal at the Asian championships hosted by the Asian Table Tennis … Read more
Manika Batra moved up to 26th in the latest rankings released by the International Table Tennis Federation on Tuesday. The 29-year-old Indian gained four spots after her run to the quarterfinals of the WTT Champions event in Montpellier. She defeated USA’s Lily Zhang in the first round before shocking World No. 14 Bernadette Szocs in … Read more
Indian challenge at the WTT Champions event in Frankfurt, Germany, ended on Tuesday after Sreeja Akula lost to Puerto Rico’s Adriana Diaz in straight games in the opening round. World No. 15 Diaz won 3-0 (11-3, 11-4, 11-8) against World No. 24 Sreeja in just 18 minutes. READ | WTT Champions: Manika Batra’s campaign ends … 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
Perhaps spurred on by the loudspeakers blaring from the adjoining school to the Pandit Dindayal Upadhyay Indoor Stadium in Surat, the dark horses exceeded expectations and pushed the favourites to their limits in the 86th Senior National Table Tennis Championship. On Friday, young Nandini Saha of Bengal caused a major upset by ousting defending champion … Read more
World No. 4 Tomokazu Harimoto of Japan and Hina Hayata, World No. 5 from Japan, will headline the men’s and women’s singles at the WTT Star Contender Chennai, set to be held at the Nehru Indoor Stadium from March 25 to 30. Other star paddlers include Hugo Calderano (Brazil), Omar Assar (Egypt), Dimitrij Ovtcharov (Germany), … Read more
Manika Batra and Sreeja Akula were ousted from the WTT Champions Incheon tournament in the first round at the Inspire Arena in South Korea. World No. 27 Manika lost to China’s Qian Tianyi 1-3 on Tuesday. The Indian did peg a game back to restore parity after conceding the lead in the match, but the … Read more