Sharath reaches the Quarters of the Czech World Tour event

Indians are shining on the World stage again!!! Sharath Kamal has reached the Quarter finals of the ITTF World Tour tournament at the Czech Republic. Sharath has a great chance to reach the semi-finals and beyond now.
He now plays Daniel Gorak of Poland who upset second seed Patrick Franziska of Germany.

In the earlier rounds, Sharath beat Jakub Dyjas of Poland, Le Brenton Thomas of France, and Mattias Oversjo of Sweden. In the comments, please watch a very interesting video of Oversjo that went viral on the Net.

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Sharath Kamal is rising in the Rankings again

Photo by courtesy of the ITTF

Good news for Indian Table Tennis fans! The June Table Tennis Rankings are out.

Sharath Kamal, with a string of good wins over players such as Gorak, Daniel (POL) Such, Bartosz (POL) Platonov, Pavel (BLR) Baggaley, Andrew (GBR), rises 20 places in the World ranking and is now World No. 63 and climbing steadily. Amalraj also edged up ahead. In the women's section, Poulomi Ghatak joined Mouma Das in the top 200.

Zhang Jike is now the World No. 1 and displaces Ma Long at the top of the table. Xu Xin is now ranked 3rd after his stellar show last month, where he beat the entire Chinese Olympic Table Tennis team (Zhang Jike, Wang Hao, and Ma Long).