Three Indians progress to the round of 64 in the World Table Tennis Championships!

Go India! Our Table Tennis stars make us proud in China!

Three players in the Men's main draw and all three through to the next round!

Soumyajit Ghosh beat ITTF 2014 player of the year Aruna Quadri, G Sathiyan Gnanasekaran defeated Par Garell (one of the best servers in the world), and Sharath Kamal beat a tricky North Korean opponent Pak Sin Hyok.
The young guns and the experienced star are earning India more space on the World Table Tennis map.

Photo courtesy of the ITTF

Indian men top group at the 2014 Commonwealth Games at Glasgow

At the prestigious Commonwealth Games that have started at Glasgow, the Indian Men's Table Tennis team comfortably beat Vanuatu, N Ireland, and Guyana in their pool to advance.

While the matches against Vanuatu and Guyana were a mere formality, Soumyajit had to battle back from 0-2 down against Robinson of N Ireland eventually winning 3-2. However, India blanked all the teams 3-0.

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Manika Batra and Soumyajit win U 21 titles at the Brazil Open Table Tennis tournament

Manika Batra and Soumyajit Ghosh won the U 21 Girls and Boys titles at the Brazil open.
While Manika beat the host nation's Caroline Kumahara 11:5, 9:11, 12:10, 11:5 and 11:5, Soumyajit over came Benjamin Brossier of France in seven tough sets 8:11, 6:11, 11;7, 11:6, 9:11, 11:7 and 11:2.
Incidentally, Soumyajit beat G Sathiyan also of India, who won the bronze medal.

All in all, the Indian players ensured a rich medal haul with Ankita Das reaching the finals (to be played today), again beating Caroline Kumahara and Harmeet Desai (semi finals). Ankita Das faces the very strong Elizabeta Samara of Romania, who recently achieved the rare feat of an European reaching a World Cup final.

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Young blood hunts for the old

The new generation was seen asserting its progress at the South Zone National Ranking Table Tennis tournament at Rajahmundry.

Soumyajit Ghosh beat G Sathiyan to reach the finals. He meets Harmeet Desai, who overcame southpaw Sanil Shetty's challenge.

It is interesting to note that three of the four semi-finalists are just 18 and even Sanil has just recently finished his Youth participation. This augurs well for Indian Table Tennis. Of course, the big India stars, Sharath Kamal and A Amalraj did not participate, but it at least means that these youngsters are right on the heels of the legends of Indian TT.

Sathiyan, Reeth, and Ankita star for India B

Reeth Tennison and G Sathiyan

G Sathiyan won both his matches as India B beat formidable India A in both the Boys and Girls section of the ONGC 2011 Indian Junior & Cadet Open - ITTF Premium Junior Circuit at Dehradun India.

The boys had to toil while winning 3-2 but it was smooth sailing for the girls as they beat the A team 3-0. 

Sathiyan beat Harmeet Desai and then Soumyajit Ghosh. Sourav Saha pulled off an unexpected 3-1 victory over Harmeet Desai in the deciding rubber.

Ankita Das and Reeth Tennison won both their singles against Mallika Bhandarkar and in-form Manika Batra and then combined to clinch the doubles and the prestigious trophy.

Sharath leads the Indian Challenge at Chile Pro Tour

India is fielding 18 of it's best players at the Chile Pro Tour Table Tennis Tournament at Santiago on Aug 10-14.

Sharath is seeded third in the Men's event. In addition to this, India has four other seeded players in the top 16, which is unprecedented in a Pro Tour event. India even boasts of 3 seeds in the Women's event.
Sharath is partnering Soumyadeep Roy at this event in the doubles and they are the second seeds.

India's brighest chances are also the youngest with Soumyajit Ghosh and Harmeet Desai as the top two seeds in the Boys U-21 event. Manika Batra is the lone seed in the Girls U-21 section. 

1     ACHANTA Sharath Kamal
2     SAHA Subhajit 
3     RAVICHANDRAN Abishek 
4     GHOSH Soumyajit
5     ROY Soumyadeep  
6     CHAKRABORTY Sourav 
7     DESAI Harmeet 
8     GNANASEKARAN Sathiyan 
9     SHETTY Sanil  
10     SAHA Sourav 
11     KUMARESAN Shamini 
12     PATKAR Madhurika  
13     GHATAK Poulomi 
14     BATRA Manika 
15     PRABHU Mamata 
16     DAS Ankita  
17     SAHASRABUDHE Pooja
18     DESHPANDE Divya  

Timo Boll is World No. 1 after a 8 year gap

Breaking News! Timo Boll of Germany ascended to the No. 1 spot in the Table Tennis World Rankings after a gap of 8 years. Ma Long slips to the 2nd spot.

India's shining star, Sharath Kamal is on the 40th spot in the list.
However, the biggest news for India from the lists are the huge jumps by Soumyajit Ghosh, Gnanasekharan Sathiyan, and Harmeet Desai, who occupy the 29th, 40th and 44th position in the Under 18 Boy's section.
Mallika Bhandarkar and Manika Batra have also moved up impressively in the Girl's U-18 section.

India placed in the Second Division of the World Team Championships

The Indian team consisting of A Sharath Kamal, Soumyadeep Roy, Subhajit Saha, A Amalraj, and Sourav Chakraborty, has been placed in the second division of the World Team Table Tennis Championships to be held at Moscow, Russia from 23-30 May.

Among the ladies, India will be represented by Mouma Das, Poulomi Ghatak, K Shamini, Madhurika Patkar, and Divya Deshpande.

China, Korea Republic, and Germany top the seedings list in the men's section while China, Singapore, and Korea Republic head the women's list.

Meanwhile, China has two new faces in its squad - Zhang Jike and Xu Xin, who have done exceptionally well in the last couple of years and also proved their merit by qualifying from the very tough selection process. Interestingly, Ma Lin does not find a place in the squad.