Tuesday, June 12, 2012

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.

Monday, June 11, 2012

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Saturday, June 9, 2012

Shamini stars for Indian Table Tennis

It was a day of mixed results for Indian players at the Euro Africa circuit Swedish Open Table Tennis Tournament.

The Indian Men's team unfortunately lost in the semi finals, while the Women's team reached the finals where they play Belarus today. Shamini played a pivotal role.

The top Indian Men players in the main draw lost while Shamini, Poulomi and Mouma Das advanced to the next round. Subhajit, Sanil, Soumyajit and Soumyadeep Roy lost in the main draw.

Friday, June 8, 2012

Baltimore Convention Center Table Tennis

Since we've had many enquiries about the huge hall with an enormous number of tables.

The hall is the Baltimore Convention Center. With players in it, it looks like this.

The building looks like this from the outside.
The JOOLA North American Teams Table Tennis Championship was played here.

Thursday, June 7, 2012

Indian Table Tennis players head to Sweden and Brazil

A huge contingent of Men and Women Table Tennis India players will participate in the Swedish Open at Helsingborg and the Brazil Open at Santos. These tournaments will provide valuable exposure to Soumyajit and Ankita for the Olympic games.

Men: Soumyajit Ghosh, Anthony Amalraj, Achanta Sharath Kamal, Subhajit Saha, Sanil Shetty, Soumyadeep Roy, Harmeet Desai.

Women: Ankita Das, Poulomi Ghatak, Mouma Das, Moushmi Paul, Divya Deshpande, K Shamini, Manika Batra and Pooja V Sahasrabudhe.

Sharada Sports Centre District Ranking Table Tennis Tournament

Sharada Sports Centre is organizing the Pune District Ranking Table Tennis Tournament 2012 from 5th June to 10th June. The tournament will be organized in two halls and will have 11 events in which titles will be up for grabs.

Wednesday, June 6, 2012

Timo Boll is the favorite for the Japan Open Table Tennis 2012 title

The Japan Open ITTF World Tour is starting today. Timo Boll is the top seed in the Men's section. Timo is currently ranked no. 6 in the World. 

He is followed in the seedings list by Jun Mizutani, Joo Se Hyuk, Chuang Chih-Yuan and Gao Ning who are No. 7, 8, 10 and 14 respectively in the World rankings.

For those of you wondering why he is ranked so low, part of the reason for the low ranking is his lower participation level in the World Tour (Pro tour) tournaments.

Tuesday, June 5, 2012

1st Karnataka State Ranking Table Tennis Tournament 2012

Results of Ultratech Karnataka State Ranking Table Tennis Tournament:

Results (all finals): 

Men’s singles: Anirban Roy Choudhary (SWR) bt Vaibhav Dahibhate (BNM) 12-10, 11-7, 8-11, 14-16, 11-7, 14-12. 
(Semifinals): Anirban bt Jaideep Das (SWR) 9-11, 11-7, 11-9, 8-11, 11-2, 11-6; Vaibhav bt Sagayaraj (SWR) 3-11, 11-4, 10-12, 11-3, 7-11, 11-6, 11-8.

Women’s singles: Maitreyee Bailoor (BTTA) bt Haripriya KS (SAI) 11-7, 11-8, 11-6, 11-7.

Youth boys: Shreyal Telang (BNM) bt Navneet AR (BNM) 11-8, 12-10, 8-11, 11-8, 12-10.

Veteran singles: Shivakumar (Gulbarga) bt Siddaramana Gowd (BHEL EDN) 11-8, 11-8, 12-10.

Results of All Assam Open Ranking Table Tennis Championship

From Arpit Agarwal:
 
Results for 12th All Assam Open Ranking Table Tennis Championship held at Nihal Singh Thakur Table Tennis Indoor Stadium, Don Bosco School from 2nd June-4th June 2012
 
Veteran Men's Singles: W: Bijit Chakraborty (DUL) RU: Hiranmoy Singh (MON)
Men's Singles: W: Pankaj Pritam Chutia (SIB) RU: Saidul Alam Ahmed (NFR)
Women's Singles: W: Sanjana Sarma (SIB) RU: Mahasweta Batsallya (GHY)
Youth Boys: W: Elsayeed Hussain (GHY) RU: Shankab Boruah (GOL)
Youth Girls: W: Kritika Upadhaya (GHY) RU: Mahasweta Batsayllya (GHY)
Junior Boys: W: Salim Zaved (GHY) RU: Subhajit Bhattacharjee (GHY)
Junior Girls: W: Sanjana Raj (GHY) RU: Mahasweta Batsayllya (GHY)
Sub-Junior Boys: W: @Bastav Bikas Baruah (GOL) RU: Vivek Bora (GOL)
Sub-Junior Girls: W: Ajupi Phukan (DUL) RU: Adrija Sarma (GHY)
Cadet Boys: Ortive Ranjan Das (GOL) RU: Samudra Krishna Gogoi (JOR)
Cadet Girls: Krishangini Phukan (GOL) RU: Prashee Baruah (DIB)

Monday, June 4, 2012

Chinmay bags a triple crown.. again!

Photo from DNA - Jignesh Mistrey
Lightning kid Chinmay Datar again bagged a triple crown at the Le Meridien Pune District Ranking tournament at Deccan Gymkhana, Pune conducted under the aegis of PDTTA. The tournament concluded this weekend.

Chinmay beat Aniket Gulwani, Neel Joshi and Shubhankar Ranade in the Men's, Youth, and Junior groups.
Incidentally, Chinmay Datar had bagged 16 titles last year including 3 triple crowns last year. He also participated in two National junior tournaments and upset an International Junior player.