IOC wins PSPB Inter unit Table Tennis crown

Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) 3-1 to win the Inter Unit Table Tennis Championships.

Sharath Kamal was the hero for the winners. He beat both A Amalraj and Zubin Kumar. Sourav Chakraborty beat G Sathiyan in the other crucial rubber.

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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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East Zone National Table Tennis Results updates

Tournament Results updates 

Sourav Chakraborty

It was a complete domination by the experienced over the new gen Table Tennis players.

East Zone semi-final line up:

Soumyadeep Roy vs Arputharaj Amalraj

Subhajit Saha vs Sourav Chakraborty

Quarter finals:

Amalraj bt Jubin Kumar, Soumyadeep Roy bt Harmeet Desai, Subhajit Saha bt Soumyajit Ghosh, Sourav Chakraborty bt G Sathiyan.

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Sourav Chakraborty upset second seed Sanil Shetty in the Men's singles pre quarter finals of the East Zone National Table Tennis tournament.
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All Indian TT stars at Chile Pro Tour advance

Harmeet Desai and Soumyajit Ghosh

All the 10 Indian players (five men and five women) at the Santiago tourney made it to the pre-quarterfinals! This is definitely a record in Indian Table Tennis history.

Of course, there will be those who complain that the tourney does not feature big stars, but it does augur well for Indian Table Tennis, especially since there are quite a few youngsters in the draw.
In fact, there is some good news and some bad news on this front. Harmeet Desai and Soumyajit Ghosh meet in the round of 16, but one of them will reach the quarter finals of a Pro Tour event in their teenage years, which is a huge boost for their confidence.
None of the Indian women players meet each other.

Pre quarterfinalists:
Women: Mamta Prabhu, Manika Batra, Madhurika Patkar, K Shamini, and Ankita Das
Men: Sourav Chakraborty, Soumyadeep Roy, Harmeet Desai, Soumyajit Ghosh, and Sanil Shetty

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: India's Star TT Player - Sourav Chakraborty

Sourav is one of India's best ever left handed players. His fearless and effortless style of plays often leaves his opponents panting.
Sourav has made a name for himself not only in the sub continent, but he has also played a stellar role in the club he played for in the middle of the last decade.

Your's truly once saw him demolishing one of the top players in a leading state in ruthless style. It is well known that Sourav single-handedly won the title for PSPB in the recent Nationals even though he was saddled with a personal emergency situation involving his father. The fact that Sourav held the flag high even without practice says a lot about his class.



Name: Sourav Chakraborty

Date of Birth: 01-01-1985

Current India Ranking - 3

Highest India Ranking - 1

Junior World Ranking (2001) -14

PARTICIPATION IN  MAJOR INTERNATIONAL TOURNAMENTS

1. World T.T. Championships in Paris in the years of 2002-2003

2. World T.T. Championships in Shanghai in the years of 2004-2005

3. Asian T.T Championships in Bangkok in the years of 2002-2003

4. Asian T.T Championships in Seoul (South Korea ) in the years of 2004-2005

5. Played Yugoslavian Top League for Red Star Club( Serbia ) in 2004-2005. Created a record of winning all the matches for Red Star Club.

6. World Championships in Yokohama in the year of 2009.

7. India VS England Series - Defeated Paul Drinkhall and Andrew Ruston.

8. Kuwait Open Championship 2009 - Qualified and lost in main draw to Ma Lin.

9. Qatar open Chamiponship 2009 - Qualified and lost in main draw to Wang Hao.

10. China Open 2009 - lost in main draw to Ta Ku( Japan ).

11. Defeated William Henzell (2006, Commonwealth Games silver medalist in mens singles) in the pre-quarter finals at Glasgow in commonwealth championship,2009.

MAJOR  NATIONAL ACHIEVEMENTS

S. No.	Tournament	Place	Year	Medal
	Senior national T.T. Championship’s	Guwahati	2009-2010	Silver(Singles) Gold(Mens Doubles) Silver(Mixed Doubles) Bronze(Team)
	Senior national T.T. Championship’s	Patna ( Bihar )	2008-2009	Bronze (singles) Bronze (Doubles) Silver (Team)
	Senior national T.T championship	Siliguri ( North Bengal )	2007-2008	Silver (singles) (Doubles) (Team)
	Senior national T.T. Championship’s	Ajmer(Rajasthan)	2006/2007	Silver (Team) Gold (Doubles Men)
	Senior national T.T. Championship’s	Jaipur (Rajasthan)	2005/2006	Silver (Team)
	Senior national T.T. Championship’s	Panvel ( Maharashtra )	2004/2005	Silver (Team) Bronze (Singles)
	Senior national T.T. Championship’s	Maneswar (Haryana)	2003/2004	Silver (Team)
	Senior national T.T. Championship’s	Pune ( Maharashtra )	2002/2003	Silver (Team) Gold (Men’s Doubles) Gold (Mixed Doubles)
	Senior national T.T. Championship’s	New Delhi	2001-2002	Silver (Singles) Gold (Team)
	Jr. Qatar Open Championship’s	Hyderabad	2001-2002	Gold (Singles Team, Mixed Doubles) Silver (Team)
	World Railway Championship’s	Bangaluru (KNT)	1999-2000	Gold (Singles, Doubles, Team)
	World Railway Championship’s	Indore (M.P)	1998-1999	Gold (Singles, Team)

MAJOR INTERNATIONAL ACHEVEMENTS

S. No.	Tournament	Place	Year	Medal
	Commonwealth Games	U.K. ( Manchester )	2002	Bronze (Team)
	Commonwealth Championship’s	New Delhi	2001/2002	Silver (Team)
	Jr. Asian Championship’s	Hong Kong	2000/2001	Bronze (Team)
	Taiyun Jr. International Championship’s	China	2000/2001	Gold (Singles) Silvers (Doubles) Bronze (Team)
	Hungary World Youth Festival	Hungary	2000/2001	Silver (Singles)
	Hungary World Youth Festival	Hungary	1999/2000	Bronze (Singles)
	South Asian Championship’s	Bangladesh	2000/2001	Gold (Single) Doubles (Team) Doubles (Mixed)
	Jr. Qatar Open Championship’s	Qatar	2000/2001	Gold (Singles)
	World Railway Championship’s	Poland	2001/2002	Gold (singles) Silver (Team) Bronze (Doubles)
	World Railway Championship’s	CzechRepublic	2006/2007	Bronze (Singles) Gold (Doubles)
	Commonwealth Championship’s	Scotland	2009	Silver(team) Quarter-finals(mens singles)

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.