Sharath Kamal  

Indian men's and women's table tennis teams finally qualified and earned a spot at the World Team Championships Finals for the Paris Olympics. It's a historic moment for the Indian table tennis. The men's team secured rank 15 and the women's team secured rank 13 at the finals. 

The Chennai Lions’ foreign imports, Germany’s Petrissa Solja and Portugal’s Tiago Apolonia, proved to be the stars of the grand finale at Ultimate Table Tennis (UTT) 2019, taming Bernadatte Szocs 2-1 and Sathiyan G 3-0 to take a formidable, and clearly unbeatable lead

The 23-year-old Manika lost to China’s world number five Wang Manyu 1-4 (2-11, 8-11, 8-11, 11-6, 4-11)

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The 23-year-old Manika, who won singles gold at this year's Commonwealth Games in Australia, has now become the first Indian female paddler to win an Asian Games medal

This is for the first time that the nation has managed a table tennis medal at the Asian Games. Since the sport was introduced in 1958, China, Japan and South Korea have dominated. China has claimed a whopping 61 gold medals