UTT (Ultimate Table Tennis) player draft

The player draft of the UTT took place today.

The following players were picked for the various UTT franchises:

Falcons TTC: Sanil Shetty (pre-selected) Bernadette Szocs, Matilda Ekholm, Liam Pitchford, Alvaro Robles, Sutirtha Mukherjee, Ronit Bhanja, Priyadarshini Das

Dabang Smashers T.T.C.: G Sathiyan (pre-selected) Sakura Mori, Masaki Yoshida, Manika Batra, Adriana Diaz, Archana Kamath, Sanish Ambekar, Cedric Nuytinck

RP-SG Mavericks: Doo Hoi Kem, Mattias Karlsson, Harmeet Desai, Kou Lei, Ayhika Mukherjee, Mouma Das, Siddhesh Pande, Sabine Winter

DHFL Maharashtra United: Kristian Karlsson, Elizabeta Samara, Anthony Amalraj, Madhurika Patkar, Joao Monteiro, Lily Zhang, Selena Selvakumar, Utkarsh Gupta

Oilmax-Stag Yoddhas: Chih Yuan Chuang, Sofia Polcanova, Sharath Kamal, Aruna Quadri, Hana Matelova, Pooja Sahasrabudhe, Sreeja Akula, Ravindra Kotiyan

Shaze Challengers: Lee Ho Ching, Georgina Pota, Simon Gauzy, Manav Thakar, Tiago Apolonia, Divya Deshpande, Arjun Ghosh, Prapti Sen

Divya, Amalraj win Central Zone National Table Tennis Ranking tournament at Jamnagar, Gujarat

Divya Mahajan nee Deshpande and A Amalraj won the Central Zone National Ranking Table Tennis tournament at Jamnagar. In the finals, Divya beat Pooja, while Amalraj beat Sanil Shetty. 

Results: 
Men: Final: Anthony Amalraj (PSPB) bt Sanil Shetty (PSPB) 11-3, 12-10, 4-11, 11-7, 11-8; 
Women: Final: Divya Deshpande (Mah) bt Pooja Sahasrabudhe (PSPB) 7-11, 6-11, 11-8, 11-7, 11-5, 11-8; 
Youth Boys: Final: Ravindra Kotiyan (Mah) bt Birdie Boro (PSPB) 11-6, 12-10, 12-10, 4-11, 11-7; 
Youth Girls: Final: Reeth Rishya (PSPB) bt Manika Batra (PSPB) 7-11, 13-11, 11-9, 9-11, 9-11, 12-10, 11-6;

Indian team for the Asian Championships at Thailand

The following members are representing India at the Asian Table Tennis Championships at Pattaya, Thailand:

Men: Sharath Kamal, Soumyajit Ghosh, Harmeet Desai, Sanil Shetty and G Sathiyan
Women: Mouma Das, Ankita Das, Pooja Sahasrabudhe, K Shamini and Manika Batra

Harmeet Desai to play Xu Xin tomorrow at the Asian Table Tennis Championships at Busan

Young Harmeet Desai will face World No. 1 Xu Xin in the third round of the Asian Championships at Busan. The match will be played tomorrow at 10:30 AM India time.

Ankita Das beat players from Vietnam and Korea to reach the pre-quarterfinals.

Sharath Kamal is in good nick but has a tough opponent in Zhou Yu of China. Zhou survived a tough 2nd round battle battle.
Amalraj will play against Jian Tianyi and Sanil Shetty will face off against Kenta Matsudaira.

Soumyajit Ghosh was unfortunate to run into a world beater in the 2nd round and lost to Cho Eon Rae (World top 50 player)

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Soumyajit and Sanil are top seeds in Men's Table Tennis National Championships, Amalraj and Sharath seeded lower

Soumyajit Ghosh and Sanil Shetty are seeded No. 1 and 2 in the Men's National Table Tennis Championships. Harmeet Desai and Soumyadeep Roy are in 3-4. The increasing depth of the quality of Table Tennis is evident from the 5-8 seedings, where Sharath Kamal and defending National Champion, A Amalraj are placed along with Subhajit Saha and Jubin Kumar.

One reason for Sharath and Amalraj's lower seeding is that they are unable to participate in all domestic tournaments due to their overseas commitments.

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Indian National Table Tennis Championships at Raipur starts today.

The 74th Senior National Table Tennis Championships start at the Balbir Singh Juneja Indoor Stadium, Raipur. The Championships run from 7 to 12 January 2013.

PSPB and Maharashtra are the top seeds in the Men's and Team events. PSPB will fight hard to get back the Women's title, while it will be a great surprise if anyone is able to even give a semblance of a fight to the PSPB men. The star players will be Poulomi Ghatak, K Shamini, Ankita Das, Madhurika Patkar, Pooja Sahasrabudhe, Divya Deshpande, Mamta Prabhu, Sharath Kamal, A Amalraj, Soumyajit Ghosh, Sanil Shetty, Soumyadeep Roy, G Sathiyan, Subhajit Saha, and Sourav Chakraborty.

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Soumyajit wins a Table Tennis double at Jodhpur

Soumyajit won a creditable double crown at the Central Zone National Table Tennis Championship at Jodhpur. In the Men's final, he beat Sanil Shetty in a closely fought encounter. In the youth final, it was a smoother ride, where he beat Harmeet Desai. Another London Olympian, Ankita Das won the Youth girls finals. K Shamini bagged the women's singles title beating giant killer Manika Batra.

Men: Final: Soumyajit Ghosh (PSPB) bt Sanil Shetty (PSPB) 9-11, 13-11, 8-11, 11-4, 9-11, 11-6, 11-6; Semifinals: Soumyajit Ghosh (PSPB) bt Harmeet Desai (PSPB) 10-12, 11-7, 11-9, 4-11, 11-6, 11-7, Sanil Shetty (PSPB) bt Sourav Saha (PSPB) 11-8, 11-7, 14-12, 9-11, 4-11, 11-5.


Women: Final: K. Shamini (PSPB) bt Manika Batra (Del) 6-11, 11-5, 11-8, 11-6, 11-4; Semifinals: Manika Batra Del) bt Soumi Mandal (PSPB) 10-12, 12-10, 11-7, 11-6, 11-6; K. Shamini (PSPB) bt Ankita Das (PSPB) 6-11, 11-6, 11-3, 9-11, 12-10, 11-9.

Youth Boys: Final: Soumyajit Ghosh (PSPB) bt Harmeet Desai (PSPB) 11-9, 11-9, 9-11, 11-5, 11-6; Semifinals: Harmeet Desai (PSPB) bt G.Sathiyan (PSPB) 8-11, 11-9, 11-5, 11-5, 16-14, Soumyajit Ghosh (PSPB) bt T. Nitin (AAI) 11-9, 1107, 11-4, 11-9.

Youth Girls: Final: Ankita Das (PSPB) bt Krittiwika Sinha Roy (AAI) 7-11, 11-5, 11-5, 11-2, 11-7; Semifinals: Krittwika Sinha Roy (AAI) Yukti Roshini (TN) 11-9, 80-11, 11-5, 11-3, 11-7, Ankita Das (PSPB) bt Ayhika Mukherjee (WB) 11-8, 11-6, 11-6, 11-4.

2011 Maharashtra State Championship Table Tennis at Buldhana

Picture of a resort near at Shegaon near Buldhana

The State Championship TT tournament starts at Buldhana tomorrow. Many stars are participating this time. They include international players such as Sanil Shetty, Aman Balgu, Madhurika Patkar, Divya Deshpande, Pooja Sahasrabuddhe, and many others.

The tournament is expected to provide a lot of excitement to the players and fans in the state and even outside.

Even the junior sections evoke a lot of interested as some talented players prepare to face each other.

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  

Player Profile: Sanil Shetty (Mumbai Maharashtra, India)

Sanil Shetty is making waves at the National level and is slowly but surely also shining on the international turf. Just last week, he won the first state ranking tournament at Dhule, Maharashtra.

Here's a brief profile of this energetic and young star.

Name: Sanil Shetty

Club: Andheri YMCA, Matunga Gymkhana

Table Tennis Achievements:
2004 - Sub Junior National Champion
2004 - Canada (Teams) Gold Medal
2006 - SAF Juniors Gold Medal
2006 - Junior National Champion, 3 times Nationals Champion in Doubles
2008 - Youth Nationals Team Gold Medal
2009 - Youth Nationals Team Gold Medal
2009 - Winner, Men's Singles, West Zone National level tournament
2009 - Winner, Youth Singles, West Zone National level tournament
2009 - Kuwait Open U-21 Quarterfinals (Beat World No. 13)
World No. 93 highest Ranking in Under-21.

Coaches: Deepak Mani, Kamlesh Mehta

Favourite Player: Timo Boll, Jun Mizutani

Weapon of Choice: Forehand Topspin

TT Ambition: To participate in the Olympics and win a medal for India.

Hobby: Playing Video Games