Indian Table Tennis Players among Seeds at Brazil Open, Santos

Soumyajit Ghosh, Anthony Amalraj, and Subhajit Saha are seeded at the Brazil Pro Tour Table Tennis Tournament (now called World Tour) at Santos, Brazil.

Soumyajit Ghosh is the top seed in the U-21 Boy's section as well and Harmeet Desai is 4th, while Ankita Das is seeded in the U-21 Girl's division.

Subhajit, Divya shine at Asian Cup, Guangzhou

Upsets galore! Subhajit Saha beat World No. 18 Jiang Tianyi in the group stage of the Asian Table Tennis Cup. The amazing thing is that Tianyi went on to win the Bronze medal in an almost world class tournament that had many top players except the Chinese cream.

Wang Liqin continued his inevitable slide by losing to Iran's Noshad Alamiyan.

Divya Deshpande of India topped Group D Women's section of the Asian Cup. She beat world no. 134 Beh Lee Wei twice (in group and second stage) to finish a creditable 13th.

The GAC TOYOTA (Camry) 25th Table Tennis Asian Cup 2012 was held at Guangzhou from 6th -8th Apr. 2012.

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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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.