Thursday, March 31, 2011

Player Profile: India's Star TT Player - Sourav Chakraborty

Sourav is one of India's best ever left handed players. His fearless and effortless style of plays often leaves his opponents panting.
Sourav has made a name for himself not only in the sub continent, but he has also played a stellar role in the club he played for in the middle of the last decade.

Your's truly once saw him demolishing one of the top players in a leading state in ruthless style. It is well known that Sourav single-handedly won the title for PSPB in the recent Nationals even though he was saddled with a personal emergency situation involving his father. The fact that Sourav held the flag high even without practice says a lot about his class.



Name: Sourav Chakraborty

Date of Birth: 01-01-1985

Current India Ranking - 3

Highest India Ranking - 1

Junior World Ranking (2001) -14

PARTICIPATION IN  MAJOR INTERNATIONAL TOURNAMENTS
1. World T.T. Championships in Paris in the years of 2002-2003
2. World T.T. Championships in Shanghai in the years of 2004-2005
3. Asian T.T Championships in Bangkok in the years of 2002-2003
4. Asian T.T Championships in Seoul (South Korea ) in the years of 2004-2005
5. Played Yugoslavian Top League for Red Star Club( Serbia ) in 2004-2005. Created a record of winning all the matches for Red Star Club.
6. World Championships in Yokohama in the year of 2009.
7. India VS England Series - Defeated Paul Drinkhall and Andrew Ruston.
8. Kuwait Open Championship 2009 - Qualified and lost in main draw to Ma Lin.
9. Qatar open Chamiponship 2009 - Qualified and lost in main draw to Wang Hao.
10. China Open 2009 - lost in main draw to Ta Ku( Japan ).
11. Defeated William Henzell (2006, Commonwealth Games silver medalist in mens singles) in the pre-quarter finals at Glasgow in commonwealth championship,2009.
 MAJOR  NATIONAL ACHIEVEMENTS

S. No.
Tournament    
Place
Year
Medal

Senior national T.T. Championship’s
Guwahati
2009-2010
Silver(Singles)
Gold(Mens Doubles)
Silver(Mixed Doubles)
Bronze(Team)
  1.  
Senior national T.T. Championship’s
Patna
( Bihar )
2008-2009
Bronze
(singles)
Bronze (Doubles)
Silver (Team)
  1.  
Senior national T.T championship
Siliguri
( North Bengal )
2007-2008
Silver
(singles)
(Doubles)
(Team)
  1.  
Senior national
T.T. Championship’s
Ajmer(Rajasthan)
2006/2007
Silver (Team)
Gold (Doubles Men)
  1.  
Senior national
T.T. Championship’s
Jaipur (Rajasthan)
2005/2006
Silver (Team)
  1.  
Senior national
T.T. Championship’s
Panvel
( Maharashtra )
2004/2005
Silver (Team)
Bronze (Singles)
  1.  
Senior national
T.T. Championship’s
Maneswar
(Haryana)
2003/2004
Silver (Team)
  1.  
Senior national
T.T. Championship’s
Pune
( Maharashtra )

2002/2003
Silver (Team)
Gold (Men’s Doubles)
Gold (Mixed Doubles)
  1.  
Senior national
T.T. Championship’s
New Delhi
2001-2002
Silver (Singles)
Gold (Team)
  1.  
Jr. Qatar Open Championship’s
Hyderabad
2001-2002
Gold (Singles Team, Mixed Doubles)
Silver (Team)
  1.  
World Railway Championship’s
Bangaluru
(KNT)
1999-2000
Gold (Singles,
Doubles, Team)
  1.  
World Railway Championship’s
Indore
(M.P)
1998-1999
Gold (Singles, Team)


MAJOR INTERNATIONAL ACHEVEMENTS

S. No.
Tournament    
Place
Year
Medal
  1.  
Commonwealth Games
U.K. ( Manchester )
2002
Bronze (Team)
  1.  
Commonwealth Championship’s
New Delhi
2001/2002
Silver (Team)
  1.  
Jr. Asian Championship’s
Hong Kong
2000/2001
Bronze (Team)
  1.  
Taiyun Jr. International Championship’s
China  
2000/2001
Gold (Singles)
Silvers (Doubles)
Bronze (Team)
  1.  
Hungary World Youth Festival
Hungary
2000/2001
Silver (Singles)
  1.  
Hungary World Youth Festival
Hungary
1999/2000
Bronze (Singles)
  1.  
South Asian Championship’s
Bangladesh
2000/2001
Gold (Single)
Doubles (Team)
Doubles (Mixed)
  1.  
Jr. Qatar Open Championship’s
Qatar
2000/2001
Gold (Singles)
  1.  
World Railway Championship’s
Poland
2001/2002
Gold (singles)
Silver (Team)
Bronze (Doubles)
  1.  
World Railway Championship’s
CzechRepublic
2006/2007
Bronze (Singles)
Gold (Doubles)
  1.  
Commonwealth Championship’s
Scotland
2009
Silver(team)
Quarter-finals(mens singles)

Saturday, March 26, 2011

Ma Lin and Wang Liqin boosting their Table Tennis rubbers?

Were Ma Lin and Wang Liqin boosting their rubbers in the recent videos?
In this video, Ma Lin and Wang Liqin, the Olympic and multiple world champion respectively are seen doing some pasting in their hotel rooms before they head to the playing arena.
Many Table Tennis enthusiasts suspected the bottle with the yellow cap.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDbqSMmboqQ
Source: www.tabletennisdaily.co.uk
Let's know what you think. We'll post a follow up soon.

Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Memories: India's Star Player, Sujay Ghorpade

Ex-international and world ranked player of India, Sujay Ghorpade, played for Cantebury (New Zealand) and helped them win the National Championship in 2001 beating Auckland. Sujay's brother, Kishore, is also based in New Zealand.

Saturday, March 19, 2011

Abhay Prashal in ITTF list of World Table Tennis hot spots

 Abhay Prashal Indoor stadium, situated in Indore, has been included in the ITTF list of World TT hot spots.
This is the only venue from India. There are three locations in the USA alone.

Here's the complete list.

Werner Schlager Academy Schwechat, Austria
Activity: ITTF With the Future in Mind / London 2012 Practice Partner: Grade A

Liebherr Masters College Ochsenhausen, Germany
Activity: ITTF With the Future in Mind / London 2012 Practice Partner: Grade A

CAR Sant Cugat Barcelona, Spain
Activity: Research / Talent development Practice Partner: Grade B

Laszlo Ormai Training Centre Budapest, Hungary
Activity: ITTF With the Future in Mind / London 2012 with female priority Practice Partner: Grade A/B

Swedish International TT TC Köping, Sweden
Activity: ITTF With the Future in Mind / London 2012 Practice Partner Grade A/B

Guangzhou Table Tennis Association Training Centre, Guangzhou
Activity: ITTF With the Future in Mind / Nanjing Youth Olympic Games 2012 Practice Partner: Grade A

INSEP Paris France
Activity: ITTF With the Future in Mind / London 2012 Practice Partner: Grade A

Stiga Training Centre Copenhagen, Denmark
Activity: ITTF With the Future in Mind / London 2012 Practice Partner: Grade A/B

Close to Karlsson Falkenberg, Sweden
Activity: ITTF With the Future in Mind / London 2012 Practice Partner: Grade A/B

CREPS de Lorraine Lorraine, France
Activity: Sub-Center INSEP B Practice Partner: Grade B

CREPS de Talence Talence, France
Activity: Sub-Center INSEP B Practice Partner: Grade B

Abhay Prashal Stadium Indore, India
Activity: ITTF Prospect Development Practice Partner: Grade B

Brazilian National Training Centre São Paulo, Brazil
Activity: ITTF Prospect Development Practice Partner: Grade B

Centro de Treino Porto - Gaia Porto, Portugal
Activity: ITTF Prospect Development Practice Partner: Grade B/C

Madeira Training Centre Madeira, Portugal
Activity: ITTF Education Special events Practice Partner: Grade B/C

Auckland Table Tennis Association Training Centre Auckland, New Zealand
Activity: Continental Development Aspect Practice Partner: Grade B/C

Canadian National Table Tennis Training Centre Ottawa, Canada
Activity: Continental Development Aspect Practice Partner Grade B/C

CAR Bogota Bogota, Colombia
Activity: Continental Development Aspect Practice Partner Grade C/D

ICC Table Tennis Center Milpitas California, USA
Activity: Untapped Market – ITTF Hopes Practice Partner: Grade Youth, Junior A/B

The Top Spin San Jose California, USA
Activity: Untapped Market – ITTF Hopes Practice Partner: Grade Youth, Junior A/B

Lily Yip Table Tennis Center New Jersey, USA
Activity: Untapped Market – ITTF Hopes Practice Partner: Grade Youth, Junior B

Ormesby Table Tennis Club Middlesbrough, England
Activity: ITTF Education Special Events Practice Partner: Grade Youth, Junior B


Friday, March 11, 2011

Tsunami and Table Tennis

Two men play Table Tennis even as they were recovering from the devastating tsunami that hit Indonesia in 2005.
We pray for the tsunami affected in Japan 2011 and hope that they recover to a normal life soon. Wish safety for all other countries that are at threat.

ITTF Annual General Meeting and Board of Directors' Meeting

The details of ITTF's AGM and BOD meeting are available at the following location:
http://www.ittf.com/world_events/PDF/English_report_final_2011.pdf



Wednesday, March 9, 2011

Britain Table Tennis team makes it to the London Olympics 2012

It's official! The Britain team will feature at the 2012 London Olympics. The Men's and Women's team were given three host nation qualification places.
Earlier, there was a controversy and the British Olympic Association (BOA) had asked the British Table Tennis Federation (BTTF) to prove its ability (read medal winning prospects). It now appears that the Federation was able to demonstrate its potential. The British Table Tennis team had not managed to qualify from the various international events.

BOA CEO, Andy Hunt is now satisfied and said that the BTTF had demonstrated that they have laid "solid foundations to maximize the opportunity of competing at a home games."