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Hyderabad: Akula Sreeja, who scripted history by becoming the first female from both Telugu speaking States to emerge national champion, was felicitated by the Telangana State Table Tennis Association (TSTTA) at the LB Stadium, on Saturday. Sreeja clinched top honours recently in Shillong to become second from Hyderabad after Mir Khasim Ali to bag the […]

Guwahati: Vishwa Deenadayalan, a Table Tennis player from Tamil Nadu, died and his three teammates were injured in a road mishap in Meghalaya, police said. The tragic incident occurred on Sunday when Vishwa, 18, and three other Tamil Nadu Tennis players were on their way in a tourist taxi from Guwahati airport to Shillong to take […]

Hyderabad: Raju defeated Suman 3-2 in the final of the men’s singles 30-35 age group category in the 4th Masters Table Tennis Championships at the Anand Nagar Welfare Association, Hyderabad on Saturday. This event also served as selection trials to select the State masters team for the upcoming National Masters Table Tennis Championship scheduled to […]

Hyderabad: Telangana women’s team bagged the team championship in table tennis at the South-Zone Inter-Regional Indoor games organised by the Regional Sports Promotion Committee (RSPC), Food Corporation of India at the LB Indoor Stadium on Tuesday. A Ratna Swapna (TS) clinched gold in the women’s singles in the table tennis event. Later, she paired with […]

The world number 37 from India defeated his 179th-ranked opponent 11-9, 11-9, 11-8, 11-6 in the round of 64. Sathiyan next faces world number 17 Aruna Quadri of Nigeria in the round of 32.

Tunis: Indian table tennis duo of G Sathiyan and Harmeet Desai notched up a dominating 3-1 win over Emmanual Lebesson and Alexandre Cassin in the summit clash to claim the men’s doubles title at the WTT Contender Tunis here on Saturday. Sathiyan and Desai beat the French duo 11-9 4-11 11-9 11-6. The Indian duo […]

Hyderabad: Based on his ranking, the Table Tennis Federation of India (TTFI) selected the Hyderabad-based Table Tennis player Balusuri Varun Shankar for the Tunisia Youth Contender international tournament to be held this week. Varun, a trainee of Somnath Ghosh MLR UTT Academy, will play for India in the Under-19 category. Varun is the third player […]

Bhavina continued her dream run in the ongoing Tokyo Games on Saturday as she stormed into the finals after defeating Zhang Miao of China 3-2 in her Class 4 match.

Indian enters semifinals to assure India of a medal

The doodle featured seven sports mini-games and dozens of daring side quests.

With Sharath's defeat, India's challenge ended in table tennis as Manika, Sutirtha Mukherjee and G Sathiyan had already exited the singles competition.

Considered one of the greatest players of all time, Long has won every singles title in the sport, and is the reigning world champion as well.

Manika rallied from 0-2 down to secure a 4-11, 4-11, 11-7, 12-10, 8-11, 11-5, 11-7 victory over Margaryta in a match that lasted 57 minutes at the Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium on Sunday.

Ranked 38 and seeded 26th, Sathiyan had a commanding 3-1 lead but lost four games in a row to lose 3-4 to the 95th ranked Hong Kong player.

Veteran Sharath Kamal will be representing India in his fourth Olympics while Manika Batra in her second.

The Voice of Table Tennis’ Adam Bobrow brings out list of table tennis players who will feature in this biggest quadrennial event

The State paddler was to play in table tennis league in the European nation

Chandra, as he was popularly known, was a three-time national champion and was the president of Tamizhaga Table Tennis Association.

Sharath and Manika had already secured their singles berth on Thursday and will now also compete as a doubles pair at the delayed Tokyo Games

The 22-year-old paddler is elated at the maiden national medal.