Dabang Delhi TTC’s bid for Ultimate Table Tennis 2024 glory may be hindered by a setback to key player Diya Chitale, who was spotted nursing an ankle injury ahead of the final against defending champion Athlead Goa Challengers at Chennai’s Jawaharlal Nehru Indoor Stadium on Saturday. The paddler seemed to be in discomfort throughout the … Read more
If one were to inaugurate a ‘Two-time Ultimate Table Tennis champions’ club, Athlead Goa Challengers would be the only franchise dropping its business card at the registration desk. As if it wasn’t already difficult to reclaim the title, Harmeet Desai and Co. accomplished the same in successive editions, beating Dabang Delhi TTC on Saturday at … Read more
ultimate /ˈʌltɪmÉ™t/ (adjective) being the best or most extreme example of its kind It has been seven years since the Ultimate Table Tennis (UTT) saw the light of day. Since its inception, the franchise-based league, conducted under the auspices of the Table Tennis Federation of India (TTFI), has gone from strength to strength. With five … Read more
A mouthwatering clash featuring Indian stars Achanta Sharath Kamal and Manika Batra, tickets priced as low as ₹49, an air-conditioned venue on a sultry Friday evening, easy accessibility to local transport, and ambient LED lights flashing in sync with peppy Tamil numbers. A five-minute contemplation might throw up five more reasons why it could have … Read more
The Jawaharlal Nehru Indoor Stadium in Chennai bore a sorry look yet again on Saturday with the Ultimate Table Tennis finding it increasingly onerous to scour for takers for the empty seats strewn across the main hall. You know the struggle is real when even the sound of cool air gushing in from centralised vents … Read more
The probability of a tournament’s defending champion succumbing to a crushing defeat against a newly introduced team is quite low. Ultimate Table Tennis witnessed one such episode as Ahmedabad SG Pipers steamrollered Goa Challengers 10-5 on Saturday at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in Chennai. However, the Pipers’ foray into the tournament was a rocky affair. The … Read more
Chennai, a city steeped in rich culture and heritage along the sultry southern coast of India, loves cinema. Here, movies form a world unto themselves, encompassing the very heart and soul of the denizens. Megastars attain the stature of demigods, with their life-sized flex vinyl posters showered with milk during weekend releases and their larger-than-life … Read more
As the engines of Formula LGB cars roared a few lanes away with Chennai hosting its first-ever street race, Alvaro Robles and Lily Zhang shifted gears at the Jawaharlal Nehru Indoor Stadium and revved up to ensure PBG Bengaluru Smashers takes the chequered flag in the race to the Ultimate Table Tennis semifinal. Dabang Delhi … 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 SzÅ‘cs was making the ping-pong ball turn square on the table with her paddle at CS Gloria BistriÈ›a-Năsăud, predominantly a football club in Romania. … Read more
The home team, Chennai Lions, didn’t have anything to lose. Neither did Puneri Paltan Table Tennis. But both sides had everything to play for on Tuesday. A semifinal spot in Ultimate Table Tennis, after all, was up for grabs. And the host almost did it, with an unheard-of scoreline of 12-3, that somehow keeps it … Read more