India women’s team won a historic bronze medal at the Asian Table Tennis Championships in Astana, Kazakhstan on Wednesday. It is the first-ever medal in women’s team event for India since Asian Table Tennis Union started conducting the competition in 1972. India lost 1-3 to Japan in the semifinals while China defeated Hong Kong 3-0 … Read more
The Indian men’s table tennis team secured itself a third consecutive medal at the Asian Championships, defeating Kazakhstan 3-1 in the quarterfinals on Wednesday. India men had won bronze in the previous two editions in 2023 and 2021. Prior to the men’s event, the women’s team lost to Japan 1-3 in the semifinal to end … Read more
The Indian pair of Manush Shah and Diya Chitale won the Mixed Doubles title of the WTT Contender Tunisia 2025 after a 3-2 win over Japanese pair of Sora Matsushima and Miwa Harimoto on Saturday. The third-seeded pair won 11-9, 5-11, 14-12, 3-11, 11-6 in the summit clash, after it clinched a straight games win … Read more
India’s table tennis star Manika Batra produced a dominant performance to defeat America’s Lily Zhang 3-0 to advance into the women’s singles pre-quarterfinals of the WTT Champions here on Wednesday. Manika, who made history in Paris Olympics to become the first-ever Indian to reach the singles pre-quarterfinals, took less than 22 minutes to cruise to … 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
Team Asia beat Team World to clinch the title at the inaugural Waldner Cup in Oslo, Norway, on Sunday. Team Asia — comprising India’s Manika Batra, China’s Chen Meng, South Korea’s Jang Woo-Jin, Lim Jong-Hoon and Shin Yu-Bin, and Kazakhstan’s Kirill Gerassimenko with Chinese great Ma Long as captain — beat Team World 14-10. Established … Read more
Hugo Calderano bagged a historic first-ever men’s singles title for Brazil while Sun Yingsha continued China’s dominance in women’s singles at the ITTF World Cup in Macao, China, on Sunday. The 28-year-old Calderano completed a fairytale week with a 4-1 (6-11, 11-7, 11-9, 11-4, 11-5) win over World No. 1 Lin Shidong of China in … Read more
Chinese Olympic table tennis champions Fan Zhendong and Chen Meng on Friday announced they were quitting the WTT World Tour, refusing to pay fines for not participating in tournaments. Fan posted on social media site Weibo he could not “afford” to pay fines under new participation rules and would “withdraw from the world rankings”. “I … 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
The 86th Senior National Table Tennis Championship started off on an expected note, with the favourites sailing through most of the team championship’s league stage proceedings at the Pandit Dindayal Upadhyay Indoor Stadium here on Sunday. Men’s defending champion Petroleum Sports Promotion Board (PSPB) crushed Uttarakhand and Chhattisgarh with an identical margin of 3-0 to … Read more