Wednesday, June 8, 2011

Table Tennis: Did you know that ......?

Did you know that Sharath Kamal beat the Table Tennis Legend Jan Ove Waldner 3-1 in the German League this year? Yes, Waldner is definitely well past his prime. But it was an interesting tussle indeed!
Scores: Sharath Kamal bt Waldner 3-1 (13-11, 8-11, 11-7 and 11-5.)








Tuesday, June 7, 2011

Gaurav, Isha win Cadet Crowns

Gaurav Lohapatre, the kid with the never-say-die attitude and Isha Joshi clinched the Cadet Boys and Girls titles at the Le Meridien District Ranking tournament at Deccan Gymkhana Pune.

Gaurav beat Rohan Khivansara in the finals 11-9 11-13 11-2 and 11-8. Earlier, Gaurav had beaten top seed Sanat Bokil in the semi-finals in a pulsating match winning 3-2 from 0-2 down.

Monday, June 6, 2011

West Bengal Table Tennis Tournaments in June and July 2011

The following tournaments will be held in the months of June and July in West Bengal.

JUNE 9th - 12th
Chandernagar TT Champs
II Tunu Mukherjee
CHN
  22nd - 25th
Cossimbazar TT Champs
III KAK
WBTTA
JULY 21st - 23rd
North 24 Pgs. Dist. TT Champs
II Sukanta Sadan
N24 Pgs.

Sunday, June 5, 2011

Pune District Ranking Tournament 2011 Kicks off today

The first ranking tournament of the season has started at the Deccan Gymkhana Club, Pune today.

Chinmay Datar, Shubhankar Ranade, Sruja Bhat, Devika Bhide, Adwait Brahme and many others in the juniors and Martand Biniwale, Atul Bapat in the Men's section are some of the top players in this tournament.

Madhukar Lonare will be the Chief referee of the tournament.

For more details, contact editor@tabletennisbug.com

India at the US Open Table Tennis 2011

Sharath Kamal won the 2010 edition of the US open. He is currently listed as the 3rd seed according to the ratings. The current list of Indian Players are as follows. Please note that their entries are pending approval.

USATT ID Name                        Rating     Country

34334    Achanta, Sharath Kamal    2751    India  
80036    Batra, Monika    2421    India  
85656    Bhandarkar, Mallika Shreerang    0    India  
24555    Das, Mouma    2222    India  
85662    Das, Priyhdarshani    0    INdia  
85654    Desai, Harmeet Rajul    0    India  
82743    Dutta, Anuska    1999    India  
21668    Ghatak, Poulomi    2397    India  
85659    Ghosh, Anirban    0    India  
77108    Ghosh, Soumyajit    2452    India  
85655    Grover, Sudhanshu    0    India  
82737    Gupta, Utkarsh    2411    India  
85660    Karivan, Spoorthy    0    India  
85658    Kawle, Charvi Rajkunda    0    India  
74480    Koparkar, Aniket    0    India  
74482    Kumar, Jubin    2628    India  
74488    Kumaresan, Shamini    2445    India  
85715    Lalrinpuia    0    India  
82915    Patkar, Madhurika Suhas    2492    India  
85663    Prabhu, Mamata    0    India  
85661    Rony, Maria    0    India  
24543    Roy, Soumyadeep    2619    India  
80026    Saha, Sourav    2553    India  
77104    Sahasrabudhe, Pooja Vijay    2204    India  
74479    Shetty, Sanil Shankar    2642    India  
100016    Sudarshan, Prabhakar    0    India  
85742    Sushmit, Sriram    0    India  
85657    Tennison, Reeth Rishya    0    India  
80032    Yadav, Abhishek    0    India   

Saturday, June 4, 2011

Sharada Centre wins Pune District Inter Club title

Photo: Courtesy Sruja Bhat
Sharada Centre represented by Upendra Mulye, Chinmay Datar, and Akshay Deshpande beat Deccan Gymkhana E 3-0 to win the Pune Inter Club Championship.

Earlier, in the semi-finals, Sharada Centre beat Deccan Gymkhana B, while the other two semi-finalist teams were from Deccan Gymkhana.


Swedish Coach for India Table Tennis Team

Anders Johansson, a well know Swedish coach is set to take over the reigns of the Indian Table Tennis team. The last foreign coach, Massimo Constantini did not continue after the last Commonwealth and Asian games. Constantini now trains Rajul Seth's wards at the Milpitas center in the US.

Johansson is currently the coach of Ochsenhausen, in the league where India's top player, Sharath Kamal plays.
SAI has agreed to pay $5000 as monthly remuneration, with the remaining costs being borne by the TTFI.

Friday, June 3, 2011

Karnataka State Ranking Table Tennis Tournament

Great players of the last millenium in Karnataka Table Tennis 
The State Ranking Table Tennis tournament will be held at Cosmos Club, Dharwar from 3rd to 6th June, 2011. The main events will be Men's Singles, Junior's Singles, Sub Junior singles, Cadet's and Team events.


The tournament is expected to attract keen interest among the local talent around Hubli-Dharwar.

Please contact KSTTA at 09844102757 for more details.

Thursday, June 2, 2011

Gujarat State Ranking Table Tennis Tournament


The first Open Gujarat Major Ranking Tournament will be held at Surat from 16 – 19 June, 2011.

The competition is expected to attract keen interest, especially since the state's promising Harmeet Desai is making waves even on the international scene.

For more details, please contact Haresh Sangtani, Hon.Secretary, on 09824229165.

Tamil Nadu State Ranking Table Tennis Tournament


The first Tamil Nadu State Ranking Table Tennis tournament will be conducted by the Centre Court Table Tennis Club at the Hall of Table Tennis, Nehru Stadium from June 10 to 12. Entries are to be sent by June 3.

Contact J. Selvakumar, Joint Secretary, Tamil Nadu Table Tennis Association (TNTTA)

Flat No.5, II Floor, Indus Jubilee Manor, 38, Tank Bund Road, Nungambakkam, Chennai-34. Ph: 09444144482/(044) 28256169.