India's performance at the Olympics - Table tennis

India's table tennis team faced a challenging campaign at the Paris Olympics, with mixed results across events. In the women's team quarterfinals, India pushed Germany to four games, but ultimately fell short. Archana Kamath's win over Shan Xiaona was a highlight, but the team couldn't quite overcome the German squad.

In women's singles, Manika Batra and Sreeja Akula put up strong fights but were ousted by Japan's Miu Hirano and China's Sun Yingsha, respectively. Sharath Achanta and Harmeet Desai faced tough opponents in the men's singles, losing to Slovenia's Deni Kozul and France's Félix Lebrun.

The men's team, meanwhile, struggled against China, losing 3-0 in the last 16 round. Despite the disappointing results, India's table tennis players showed glimpses of their potential and will look to build on this experience for future tournaments.

Table Tennis India aims for medals at the 2024 Paris Olympics

Indian players are laser-focused on the Paris Olympics 2024, where 60 countries are participating in the Table Tennis sport. This time, they will not go to the athletes village to enjoy and meet famous sports stars. Their goal is to bag nothing less than medals.

This is probably the first Olympics when this aim is realistic. We have the experienced Sharath Kamal again along with India's star player, Manika Batra. But this time, we also have Sreeja Akula who has improved by leaps and bounds in the past few years and is now ranked in the elite groups.

India's team medal prospects provide some hope as the teams have players of good strength and experience.

Massimo Costantini is also sensing the ambitious mood of the Indian Table tennis team. A unique fact this time is that there are a few personal coaches, which indicates that the sport has become highly professional and lucrative at the top level.

India Table Tennis team composition:

Men’s team: Sharath Kamal, Harmeet Desai, and Manav Thakkar; 

Reserve player: G. Sathiyan

Men’s singles: Sharath Kamal and Harmeet Desai

Women’s team: Manika Batra, Sreeja Akula, and Archana Kamath; 

Reserve player: Ayhika Mukherjee

Women’s singles: Manika Batra and Sreeja Akula

India Table Tennis players' world ranking

The following are the Indian Table Tennis players rankings on the basis of World rankings in November 2017:

Top India Men World Rankings

45 ACHANTA Sharath Kamal
88 GNANASEKARAN Sathiyan
91 DESAI Harmeet
94 GHOSH Soumyajit
135 ANTHONY Amalraj

The superstar Achanta Sharath Kamal is still the top Indian player by world ranking in the Men's section. G Sathiyan is making waves on the ITTF circuit. If he continues at the same pace, he will soon be a seasoned force to reckon with.

Top India Women World Rankings

107 BATRA Manika
139 DAS Mouma
153 MUKHERJEE Ayhika
191 PATKAR Madhurika
219 KAMATH Archana Girish

Manika has been consistent from many years and has even breached the top 100 earlier. We can hope for a lot from Archana Kamath, who is ranked 219 even though she is still a junior! The surprise in this list is Ayhika, who is ranked high due to her exploits earlier.

Photo courtesy of the ITTF.

Entries from India for Cadet and Junior Open at Indore

The following are players entered into the Indian Open Cadet and Junior Table Tennis tournament at Indore which will be held from September 9-13, 2015.

M - Male
W - Female
J - Junior
C - Cadet

ALBUQUERQUE Raegan	M	C
ALBERTO Lalremruata	M	C
THAKKAR Manav Vikash	M	C
SHAH Manush Utpalbhai	M	C
VIRMANI Parth	M	C
SETH Sarthak	M	C
SUBRAMANIAN Ashwin	M	C
PEDNEKAR Shaurya Tushar	M	C
SURAVAJJULA Snehit	M	C
JAIN Anukram	M	C
JEHO Himnakulhpuingheta	M	C
GUPTA Utkarsh	M	J
AMBEKAR Sanish	M	J
PUIA Lalrin	M	J
KOTIYAN Ravindra	M	J
SELVAKUMAR Selena	W	C
KAMATH Archana Girish	W	C
HALEANGADI Srushti	W	C
JAISWAL Varuni	W	C
CHITALE Diya Parag	W	C
PATHAK Saundarya	W	C
SIVASANKAR Yashini	W	C
BHARGAVA Vanshika	W	C
PATWARI Surbhi	W	C
VISHWANATH Kushi	W	C
PAREEK Priyanka	W	C
AMRUTE Shruti Vijay	W	J
RONY Maria	W	J
AKULA Sreeja	W	J
SHANKAR Riti	W	J
JACOB Seraha	W	J

GUPTA Utkarsh	M	J
AMBEKAR Sanish	M	J
PUIA Lalrin	M	J
KOTIYAN Ravindra	M	J
SELVAKUMAR Selena	W	C
KAMATH Archana Girish	W	C
HALEANGADI Srushti	W	C
JAISWAL Varuni	W	C
CHITALE Diya Parag	W	C
PATHAK Saundarya	W	C
SIVASANKAR Yashini	W	C
BHARGAVA Vanshika	W	C
PATWARI Surbhi	W	C
VISHWANATH Kushi	W	C
PAREEK Priyanka	W	C
AMRUTE Shruti Vijay	W	J
RONY Maria	W	J
AKULA Sreeja	W	J
SHANKAR Riti	W	J
JACOB Seraha	W	J

Karnataka State Ranking Table Tennis tournament at Canara Union from June 6

The Karnataka State Ranking Table Tennis tournament is going to be held at Canara Union, 8th Main Rd, Malleshwaram, Bangalore, Karnataka from June 6 to 9, 2014

The event is expected to attract good participation since it is early in the season and is a time for students with no academic pressures.

Karnataka is seeing a revival in Table Tennis achievements. Archana Kamath won the sub junior girls national title last year with her aggressive attacking style of play.

Editor

Archana Kamath wins three titles at Kushalnagar

Archana Kamath won 3 titles and in the bargain won handsome prize money at the 2nd Karnataka State Ranking Table Tennis tournament.

She had reached 4 finals in Sub Junior Girls, Junior Girls, Youth Girls, and Women's singles. She lost only the Junior Girls title to Spoorthi Mv of Mysore.

Editor