Sharath beats Chen Weixing in the Champions League match

Sharath is probably one of the rare Indians if not the only to play the prestigious Champions league.
Update: Match starts at 10:30 India time. Sorry for the short notice.



Match is against SVS Niederösterreich -
For those who have not watched earlier, Sharath Kamal plays for the top European Club, Borussia Dusseldorf and it includes stars such as Timo Boll, Patrick Baum, Christian Suss, and Ricardo Walther.
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Timo, Sharath ensure win in the opening tie of the Bundesliga Table Tennis league

Timo Boll, Achanta Sharath Kamal, and Patrick Baum ensured that Borussia Dusseldorf collected their first win in the opening tie of the Bundesliga (German Table Tennis league).

Sharath Kamal provided the crucial point for Dusseldorf after Baum suffered an upset at the hands of Gacina of TTC Zugbrücke Grenzau. Timo Boll did the rest by winning two rubbers.

 

Shamini, Soumyajit triumph at the Inter institutional Table Tennis tournament at Dharwad

K Shamini and Soumyajit Ghosh win the prestigious Inter institutional Table Tennis titles. The tournament was held at Dharwad, Karnataka.

It is worth noting that this tournament is the 2nd most important tournament on the Indian Table Tennis calendar and carries 50% more weightage than the various Zonal (national level) tournaments.

Men (Final): Soumyajit Ghosh bt Anthony Amalraj 4-1 (11-9, 5-11, 11-9, 11-9, 11-6); Semifinals: Soumyajit Ghosh bt Harmeet Desai 4-1 (9-11, 11-6, 11-8, 11-5, 11-6), Anthony Amalraj bt Nitin Thiruvengadam (AAI) 4-3 (7-11, 11-9, 15-17, 10-12, 11-7, 13-11, 11-7).

Doubles (Final): Sourav Saha/G. Sathiyan bt Jubin Kumar/ A. Amalraj 3-1 (8-11, 11-8, 12-10, 12-10).

Women (Final): K. Shamini bt Poulomi Ghatak 4-0 (11-7, 11-1, 11-8, 11-2); Semifinals: K. Shamini bt Pooja Sahasrabudhe 4-1 (11-6, 7-11, 11-9, 11-5, 11-7), Poulomi Ghatak bt Madhurika Patkar 4-2 (6-11, 11-3, 11-9, 12-10, 8-11, 11-4).

Doubles (Final): K. Shamini/Madhurika Patkar bt Ankita Das/Reeth Rishya 3-0 (11-9, 11-5, 11-5)

Results courtesy ttfi.org
Please note that the photo is a file photo.

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Sharath reaches the Quarters of the Czech World Tour event

Indians are shining on the World stage again!!! Sharath Kamal has reached the Quarter finals of the ITTF World Tour tournament at the Czech Republic. Sharath has a great chance to reach the semi-finals and beyond now.
He now plays Daniel Gorak of Poland who upset second seed Patrick Franziska of Germany.

In the earlier rounds, Sharath beat Jakub Dyjas of Poland, Le Brenton Thomas of France, and Mattias Oversjo of Sweden. In the comments, please watch a very interesting video of Oversjo that went viral on the Net.

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Prashant Aher wins men's crown at the Madhya Pradesh State Ranking Table Tennis tournament

Results of the Madhya Pradesh State Ranking Table Tennis tournament held recently.

Prashant Aher won the Men's singles title beating Rohan Joshi.

List of Winners and Runners up in other age groups:
Cadet boys - Anuroop Tiwari Winner, Aniket Potdar - Runner
Sub jr. boys - Somyajeet Ghosh winner Rohit Rokde runner
Junior boys - Hemant Raman winner, Divyanshu Nayar runner
Youth boys - Shubrajeet Ghosh winner, Satyajeet Ghosh runner
Mens - Prashant Aher winner, Rohan Joshi runner
Cadet girls - Anusha Kutumble wnnr, Khushi Jain runner
Subj r . girls - Anusha Kutumble Winner, Aru Vaishnav runner.
Junior girls - Manisha Seal winner, Anshu Yadav runner
Youth grls - Manisha Seal winner, Meenushree Seal runner
Womens - Pooja Sharma winner, Manisha Seal runner

Winners photo and news by Rohan Joshi

Sharath Kamal seeded seventh at the Czech Republic ITTF World Tour event

Indian ace Sharath Kamal is participating in the GAC Group 2013 ITTF World Tour, Czech Open, Major Series 21 Aug 2013 - 25 Aug 2013, Olomouc, CZECH REPUBLIC. Owing to his World No. 64 ranking, Sharath is the seventh seed in the tournament.

In the doubles, he will be partnering young Ricardo Walther of Germany. Incidentally, Ricardo is a team mate of Sharath's at Borussia Dusseldorf, which also boasts of other big names such as Timo Boll, Patrick Baum and Cristian Suss.

The Czech tournament will be a very good warm up for Sharath as Borussia Dusseldorf have a match against TTC Zugbrücke Grenzau on 31st August.

(Photo: www.Sportskeeda.com)

Seedings (Numbers at the end are world rankings)
 
1 TAKAKIWA Taku JPN 43
2 FRANZISKA Patrick GER 45
3 CHAN Kazuhiro JPN 48
4 SKACHKOV Kirill RUS 49
5 SHIBAEV Alexander RUS 59
6 MATSUMOTO Cazuo BRA 63
7 ACHANTA Sharath Kamal 64
8 LIVENTSOV Alexey 71

Gold medals galore for the Indian Cadet Table Tennis Team at El Salvador

This is certainly Indian Table Tennis history being re-written! The very young cadet team swept most titles at El Salvador beating more senior International ranked players, including in the much higher age group of Under 18, even though they are Under 15! Three cheers !!!

We are losing count of the Gold medals , just listing some achievements of the many winners and runners up.
Anirban Ghosh (Gold U 18 boys, rare record for India from a Cadet boy, team gold, Gold Cadet Boys)
Birdie Boro (Silver U 18 close final against Anirban, Gold Cadet team, Silver Cadet doubles)
Arjun Ghosh (Cadet boys doubles Gold, Team medal)
Sreeja Akula (Gold U 18 girls, rare record for India from a Cadet girl)
Moumita Dutta (Gold Cadet girls, Gold Cadet girls doubles)
Sagarika Mukherjee (Cadet girls, junior girls medals)

(Photo courtesy Aishwarya Pathak)

Rajasthan State Ranking Table Tennis tournament at Jaipur

The Jaipur edition of the Rajasthan State Ranking Table Tennis tournament runs from 16th August to 18 th August.

Tournament alert provided by Shubham Ojha.

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Birdie Boro and Anirban Ghosh win Cadet Team title at El Salvador

The Indian Cadet Table Tennis team again dominated the team events at 2013 El Salvador Junior & Cadet Open - ITTF Junior Circuit. In both the Boys and Girls sections, two Indian teams played out the finals!

Birdie Boro and Anirban Ghosh played in the Cadet Boys finals winning team against Lalrin Puia and Arjun Ghosh while Sagarika Mukherjee and Calange Ravichandran Harsha Vardhini beat Moumita Dutta and Aishwarya Pathak.

(Please note that photo is only indicative, is the old Cadet team)