Coaches for Ultimate Table Tennis league 2018

Earlier, last month, the coaches draft was conducted for the Ultimate Table Tennis league. 

The following coaches will lead the players for season 2018, which is scheduled to be held in June.

The coaches line-up: 
Falcons TTC: Soumyadeep Roy & Vesna Ojstersek (Slovenia) 
Yoddhas: Sandeep Gupta & Ferenc Karsai (Hungary) 
RP-SG Mavericks: Arup Basak & Elena Timina (Netherlands) 
Challengers: A Muralidhara Rao & Peter Engel (Germany) 
Dabang Smashers TTC: Sachin Shetty & Andrei Filimon (Romania) 
DHFL Maharashtra United: N Ravichandran & Francisco Santos (Portugal).

Soumyajit, Shamini win Inter Unit Table Tennis tournament

Soumyajit Ghosh of BPCL and K Shamini of IOCL faced stiff resistance before they could crown themselves the champions at the 34th APSPB Inter Unit Table Tennis Tournament in which PSBP participate.

In the finals, both of which went down to the wire, Soumyajit Ghosh beat Soumyadeep Roy, while K Shamini defeated Mouma Das.

Results (finals):
Soumyajit Ghosh (BPCL) bt Soumyadeep Roy (IOCL) 4-3 (11-4, 11-13, 11-9, 7-11, 7-11, 11-8, 11-3).

K Shamini (IOCL) bt Mouma Das (OIL) - 4-3 (6-11, 9-11, 13-11, 9-11, 11-3, 11-9, 11-2)

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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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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.

Photo of the day: Soumyadeep Roy in action

Soumyadeep in Action - Photo courtesy Prasad Naik

Soumyadeep has carried India's flag high for over a decade. He has faced three generations of Table Tennis players in India and is still among the very top players.

Soumyadeep has won several South Asian and Commonwealth medals and has other notable achievements in his treasure chest.

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.