Sourav, Mouma win North Zone Ranking Table Tennis titles

Sourav Chakravarthy and Mouma Das won the North Zone Ranking Table Tennis tournament held at New Delhi. In the finals, they beat Soumyajit Ghosh and Mamta Prabhu respectively, but in contrasting styles.

While Sourav coasted to a 4-2 win over the relatively inexperienced Soumyajit, Mouma held her nerve and beat back Mamta's challenge 4-3.

Harmeet Desai asserted his growing stature on the domestic scene beating G Sathiyan in the Youth Boy's finals. Pooja Sahasrabudhe beat Divya Deshpande in a daring comeback from 3-1 down.

Zubin stars in Spanish League

Zubin (Center) in an earlier photo

Zubin Kumar played a stellar role in his team's last two encounters in the Spanish league. Zubin won all his four matches to star in Tramuntana Figueres's wins over C N Mataro Quadis and Caja De Burgos.

Zubin beat Xavier Peral and Jordi Jason Ramos of C N Mataro Quadis on 11th December. In the last league encounter Zubin beat Ruben Dehesa and Ferenc Horvath of Caja De Burgos. Zubin's win percentage was an astounding 81% for the year!

With this, Tramuntana leaped to the top spot in the Men's Honor division.

Sharath ends German League season on a high

Sharath Kamal ended his first season in the Premium division of the German league table tennis on a high by winning both his matches against the top team of the league, Borussia Dusseldorf. However, Sharath's team mates at TSV Grafelfing could not grab the other rubber required to clinch the tie.
TSV Grafelfing finished 9th in the league. The astounding part of the achievement by Sharath was that he won 9 out of the 10 matches that his team managed to win against their top notch achievements. The only other win was in the doubles by Nico Christian and Gabriel Stephan.

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