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 withdraws, Soumyadeep spearheads team

An old photo of the Indian Women's team. Note that Mouma and Poulomi are not in this tournament. Kamlesh Mehta is accompanying the team as Coach in the absense of a foreign coach

In the absense of Sharath Kamal, who had to withdraw from the Chile Open due to an illness, Soumyadeep leads the team, which starts its main matches today. Sanil faces a tough customer in Mancini.

The Indian women and men face South American challenge in the first round with many of them facing players from Chile, Argentina, and Brazil. A few of them should be able to make it to the pre quarterfinals, where the competition gets tougher.

One just back from injury another just injured. Losses for Star Players

Zhang Jike, the reigning World Champ and Wang Hao, the previous World Champ are facing the same challenges. The both lost their matches at the Chinese Super League tournament. Jike lost to Ma Lin and had to concede to Timo Boll allowing Zhejiang to win over Shandong. Earlier, young Fang Bo beat Timo Boll comprehensively, but it was not enough to stop Zhejiang.

In the other important encounter, Bazhou beat Bayi when Wang Hao lost both his matches since he was rusty after his recent return from an injury.

Bazhou and Zhejiang now have bright chances.

USA TT Member Ranking Patterns

A very interesting study can be made out of the USATT Member rating charts.The chart plotted the ratings of the 7937 USATT members (2010).

The chart classifies players in four main categories:

• Beginners (upto Rating ~970)
• Intermediate (upto Rating ~1760)
• Expert (upto Rating ~2280)
• Elite (above 2280)

It is interesting to note that the highest number of ping pong players are bunched around the level of the Average Tournament Player (~1880). Players with a rating of upto 2055 are considered to be Experts and those above it, Masters.

The USA Women and Men team members are at a rating of 2680 and 2775 approximately, while the absolute elite in the world are much higher than that!
Chart owner, Brady Weiss. Original creator Mike McClure.

Maharashtra Table Tennis Fifth State Ranking and State Championship Details

Marine Lines - circa 1870s

Fifth State Ranking

University Pavilion
Marine Lines
Mumbai City    
19th to 23rd September 2011        

State Championships    

Buldhana
29th October to 3rd November 2011

Final Day Results of Maharashtra State Ranking Table Tennis Tourney at Thane 2011

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4th Day Results of the Maharashtra State Ranking Tournament at Thane

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 Here are the results of the Maharashtra State Ranking Table Tennis Tournament held at Thane 2-6 August 2011.

Results of Maharashtra State Ranking Table Tennis Tournament at Thane

Rutuja Khopkar and Coach Mahendra Chiplunkar

Sub Junior Boys

Semi-Final

 

Siddhesh Pande(THN) [Seed - 1] Bt Siddhesh Kubal(THN) 11/5,11/7,11/8,11/6

Kalpak Bansod(NGP) [Seed - 2] Bt Anay Dave(MSD) [Seed - 6] 5/11,5/11,6/11,11/8,11/8,11/7,17/15

Final

Kalpak Bansod(NGP) [Seed - 2] Bt Siddhesh Pande(THN) [Seed - 1] 6/11,12/10,13/11,7/11,4/11,11/8,11/8

Sub Junior Girls Singles

Semi-Final

Simran Haria(MSD) [Seed - 11] Bt Ashlesha Trehan(MSD) [Seed - 2]  12/10,6/11,11/5,11/5,3/11,11/7

Srushti Haleangadi(MSD) [Seed - 5] Bt Shruti Amrute(THN) [Seed - 1] 13/11,5/11,9/11,13/11,11/9,9/11,11/9

Final

Simran Haria(MSD) [Seed - 11] Bt Srushti Haleangadi(MSD) [Seed - 5] 9/11,11/6,7/11,11/5,11/5,7/11,11/6

Cadet Boys Singles

Semi-Final

Shaurya Pednekar(MSD) [Seed - 1] Bt Sanat Bokil(PNA) [Seed - 5] 11/8,11/8,11/8

Ashwin S(MSD) [Seed - 6] Bt Kavish Nagpal(MSD) [Seed - 2] 11/9,11/5,11/4

Final

Shaurya Pednekar(MSD) [Seed - 1] Bt Ashwin S(MSD) [Seed - 6]

7/11,11/7,11/6,11/3

Cadet Girls Singles

Semi-Final

Snehal Patil(THN) [Seed - 3] Bt Kadambari Bhandarkar(NGP) [Seed - 7] 10/12,11/1,12/10,11/8

Srushti Haleangadi(MSD) [Seed - 4] Bt Payal Bohra(MSD) [Seed - 1] 11/7,11/7,11/7

Final

Srushti Haleangadi(MSD) [Seed - 4] Bt Snehal Patil(THN) [Seed - 3]

11/6,11/7,11/3

Junior Girls Quarter finals

Jagruti Murbadkar(THN) [Seed - 4] Bt Shruti Amrute(THN) [Seed - 12] 11/7,12/10,11/7,11/7

Senhora Dsouza(MCD) [Seed - 1] Bt Noopur Walve(THN) [Seed - 9] 11/6,4/11,11/8,10/12,11/6,11/7

Urvi Walve(THN) Bt Devika Bhide(PNA) [Seed - 3] 4/11,11/7,3/11,11/8,15/13,5/11,11/6

Rutuja Khopkar(THN) [Seed - 2] Bt Sanika Muley(ABD) [Seed - 7] 11/7,11/9,9/11,11/13,11/6,2/11,11/5

Timo Boll vs Ma Lin. Timo wins!

Watch the titans in action as Timo beats Ma Lin in the World Cup 2005.

Naina goes Global with her amazing exploits

India's most talented Table Tennis Player, Naina is in Hong Kong for an international tournament. Ealier, she was in China for advanced training. She will go back to China to continue her training stint. Naina is also now on the ITTF Hopes team, having received training from Schlager earlier.

The training school at which Naina is receiving training and technical education boasts of a highly regarded coach, Zhang, who has nutured several Olympic Gold medallists. Zhang has forty years of experience in Table Tennis training. We hope that Naina picks up the tricks to bag medals at Olympics in the future!

By the way, here are the ITTF Hopes teams:

Boys: Wong Ho Hin (Hong Kong), Youssef Abdel-Aziz (Egypt), Filip Radovic (Montenegro), Kunal Chodri (United States), Kanak Jha (United States)

Girls: Vaness Leung Tsz Ching (Hong Kong), Ng Yuen Wai (Hong Kong), Monapsorn Saritapirak (Thailand), Adriana Diaz (Puerto Rico), Angela Zhan (Australia), and Naina (India)