Sharath gives Olympic Champ a fright

Sharath Kamal gave 2004 Olympic champion, Ryu Seung Min by extending him to the full 7 game distance before losing out narrowly 3-11,9-11,11-1,11-7,9-11,12-10, and 8-11 at the annual Pro Tour Grand Table Tennis finals.


Meanwhile, seeds continued to tumble. Top seed Vladimir Samsonov of Belarus lost to Jun Mizutani of Japan 2-4 in the semi-finals. The second seed, Ovtcharov had already lost in the very first round to Bastian Steger. Steger, continued his spectacular run and is playing Jun Mizutani in the finals. At the moment of writing this article, Jun is leading 2-1 in games.
(Update: Jun won the Grand finals beating Steger of Germany in the finals.)

Sharath advances to the Quarterfinals

India's A Sharath Kamal beat Lee Sang Su of the host country in a thrilling match (4-3) to advance to the Quarter finals of the year ending Pro Tour Grand Finals tournament.

In a cliff-hanger of a match which went down to the wire, Sharath beat Lee Sang 11-13,11-9,5-11,11-9,11-9,8-11,15-13. Sharath now plays 2004 Olympic Champion, Ryu Seung Min.


The sensation of the day was the loss of the No. 2 seed Ovtcharov Dimitrij who lost to his countryman Bastian Steger in the first round.

A R Navaneeth wins Karnataka State Championships

~~ Vikramadithya Shivaram

Favorite Navaneeth bagged the Karnataka State Champion title beating Anirban Tarafdar 4-2.
Promising Shreyal Telang, fresh from his victory at the West Zone Nationals at Nagpur, beat experienced Sagayaraj to reach the semi-finals. Aditya Mahagaokar who is doing his advanced studies at Bengaluru was the other semi-finalist.

Other Results:

Semifinals
Anirban Tarafdar beat Shreyal Telang 4-1
Navaneeth beat Aditya Mahagaonkar 4-0

Quarter finals:
Anirban beat Jaideep Das 4-1
Shreyal beat Sagayraj 4-3
Aditya Mahagaonkar beat Yeshwanth 4-2
Navaneeth beat Sunand Vasan 4-1

Sharath and Subhajit beaten at the Pro Tour Grand finals

Commonwealth gold medalists Sharath Kamal and Subhajit Saha faced the wrath of the Commonwealth finalists. The lost 0-4 to GAO Ning and YANG Zi 8-11,1-11,3-11,7-11 in the first round of the Pro Tour Grand Finals.

Sharath's hopes are still alive in the tough Singles competition where he faces Lee Sang Su of Korea in the first round today.

Famous Uttar Pradesh Table Tennis Players

Some popular Table Tennis names in Uttar Pradesh.

Vivek Kohli
Anshul Garg
Anil Sen
Zabarjeet Singh
Atin Rastogi
Parag Agarwal
Kaushik-de-Sarkar
Rahul Prakash
Sanjeev  Pathak
Sanjeev Kapoor
S.P. Singh
Sandeep  Gupta 

Top Table Tennis Players of Gujarat

Top Men's Players of Gujarat

Harmeet Desai SRT
Pathik Mehta BVN
Jignesh Jaiswal BVN
Dharmaraj Rana BVN
Hardik Bhatt BVN
Sujay Chaturvedi RJT
Ravi Joshi BVN
Malay Parikh BRD
Jalay Mehta BRD
Mahipal Gohil BVN
Jagdish Makwana BVN
Vijay Vala BVN
Mihir Dave AHM
Dev Kothari BVM

Pathik Mehta's results at the Spanish League

03-10-2010	Pathik	GABRIEL GARCIA	LA ZUBIA GILAUTO	3-0
03-10-2010	Pathik	RAN WANG	LA ZUBIA GILAUTO	1-3
17-10-2010	Pathik	LUCA HAHN	CD SAN JAVIER TMVB	3-1
17-10-2010	Pathik	ISMAEL FLAMES	CD SAN JAVIER TMVB	3-0
07-11-2010	Pathik	EMILIO ANTONIO GARCIA	TM EXTREMADURA ALMENDRALEJO	3-1
07-11-2010	Pathik	PEREZ JUAN BAUTISTA	TM EXTREMADURA ALMENDRALEJO	3-0
13-11-2010	Pathik	JUAN GOMEZ	CTM HISPALIS	3-2
13-11-2010	Pathik	JOSE MANUEL GOMEZ	CTM HISPALIS	3-0
14-11-2010	Pathik	JESUS MARTIN	ERGO JEREZ	3-0
14-11-2010	Pathik	FREE SANCHO	ERGO JEREZ	3-2
21-11-2010	Pathik	ISRAEL RODRIGUEZ	CTM CajaGRANADA	3-0
21-11-2010	Pathik	FRANCISCO JAVIER RAMIREZ	CTM CajaGRANADA	3-0
27-11-2010	Pathik	JESUS RODRIGUEZ	CD CÁRTAMA TM	3-1
27-11-2010	Pathik	GUILLERMO SANCHEZ	CD CÁRTAMA TM	3-2
28-11-2010	Pathik	JOSE MIGUEL RAMIREZ	CAJASUR - PRIEGO TM	2-3
28-11-2010	Pathik	ALEJANDRO CALVO	CAJASUR - PRIEGO TM	3-2
12-12-2010	Pathik	ALEJANDRO PRATS	SANTA CTT EULARIA	3-0
12-12-2010	Pathik	LONG LI YI	SANTA CTT EULARIA	3

Jubin Kumar's performance at the Spanish League

02-10-2010	Jubin	ORIOL MIR	BORGES arithmetic	3-0
02-10-2010	Jubin	DAVID GONZALEZ	BORGES arithmetic	3-0
23-10-2010	Jubin	GUILLERMO MARTINEZ	TABLE TENNIS CD RIVAS	3-0
23-10-2010	Jubin	ALEXANDER SMIRNOV	TABLE TENNIS CD RIVAS	3-2
13-11-2010	Jubin	PEDRO LOPEZ	LEGANES ADTM	3-0
13-11-2010	Jubin	SERGEI Sokolovsky	LEGANES ADTM	3-0
14-11-2010	Jubin	DIAMANDI Gherasim	CENTURY BRUNETE	1-3
14-11-2010	Jubin	EDUARDO GONZALEZ	CENTURY BRUNETE	3-1
21-11-2010	Jubin	CRISTOBAL FERNANDEZ	CLUB DEL MAR	3-0
21-11-2010	Jubin	ZHAO QIANG	CLUB DEL MAR	1-3
27-11-2010	Jubin	JOSE MIGUEL NUT	TM DEFENSE - LA PALMA	3-0
27-11-2010	Jubin	HENRIK ANDERSSON BO ARON	TM DEFENSE - LA PALMA	1-3
11-12-2010	Jubin	XAVIER PEAR	CN MATARO - Quadis	3-2
11-12-2010	Jubin	Yordi JASON RAMOS	CN MATARO - Quadis	3-0

Sharath's good performance at the German League

Sharath is the top player for his club in the Bundesliga. He has made a good start to the season. He missed playing Jan-ove Waldner though.

Here are his results this season:

Beat Jiri Vrablik 3-2
Beat Chu Yan Leung 3-1
Beat Kenji Matsudaira 3-0
Beat Robert Gardos 3-1
Beat Adrian Dodean 3-0
Lost to Adrian Crisan 0-3
Beat Erik Bottroff 3-1
Beat Bin Zhou 3-1
Lost to Keinath Thomas 2-3
Lost to Robert Svensson 2-3
Lost to Wang Xi 1-3
Lost to Bastian Steger 0-3

Table Tennis News Bites - Sharath Kamal Updates

As we know, right now Sharath is playing in the German league for TSV Gräfelfing in the prestigious 1st Division Table Tennis league in Germany.

TSV Gräfelfing currently stand 9th in the league.

Sharath will play two more league matches before he comes to India on the 14th December.

Just to repeat, Sharath has been selected to play the Pro Tour Grand Finale at Seoul from 16th December. Only the World's top 16 players are invited for this event!