Table Tennis  

From Amar Dhesi from Canada to Rajeev Ram from USA, here are the top 5 Indian-origin athletes representing other countries in the Paris Olympics 2024. 

He was a boxer at EME, Secunderabad, and he could not return to it after his injuries. However, he did not let his disability define him, and he switched sports and picked up swimming, table tennis, and other sports. 

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. 

Sonalben Patel is an Indian table tennis player. She made headlines for clinching bronze medal in the table tennis women’s singles event at the 2022 Commonwealth Games held in Birmingham, UK.

In World Table Tennis (WTT) Youth Contender Tournament held in Almaty, Kazakhstan, 9-year-olds Avni Dua and Krishiv Garg made the entire nation proud. Avni won the gold medal in Under-11 girls category while Krishiv made it to the quarter finals in the Under-11 boys category. Both the kids aspire to represent India in future Olympic games.

India’s first T20I in the New Year 2020, against Sri Lanka, was abandoned without a ball being bowled in Guwahati. Hardik Pandya got engaged to Serbian actress Natasa Stankovic. India’s Manav Thakkar became world No. 1 in Under-23 category in table tennis. All this and more in MyNation’s Sportstop

In an all-Indian men’s singles final which saw two of India’s most prominent players go up against each other, it was Harmeet Desai who started on the front-foot winning the opening game 11-9 before losing the next game 9-11 allowing Amalraj Anthony to draw level

The India B team in the Cadet Girls’ competition was the country’s top performers in this ITTF Premium Junior Circuit event, clinching the gold. Led by Kavya Sree Bhaskar and Nilishma Sarkar, they took on the mighty Chinese Taipei 1 in the title round and came out triumphant

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 12-member committee is headed by Supreme Court judge Justice (Retd) Mukundakam Sharma and comprises sports secretary Radhey Shyam Jhulaniya, Sports Authority of India (SAI) director general Sandeep Pradhan, Target Olympic Podium Scheme (TOPS) CEO Commander Rajesh Rajagopalan, Mary Kom, Bhutia, ex-women's cricket team captain Anjum Chopra, celebrated former long jumper Anju Bobby George and table tennis coach Kamlesh Mehta among others

Team India's senior players have indicated their availability for the full tour of the West Indies, which will begin early next month. Hima Das clinched her fourth gold. Watch Sportstop for your daily dose of news from the sports section only on MyNation.

Defending champions Dabang Delhi TTC, led by the current highest-ranked Indian Sathiyan Gnanasekaran (No. 24), take on newcomers Puneri Paltan Table Tennis in the blockbuster opening clash of the Ultimate Table Tennis (UTT) 2019

Indian sportswomen did the nation proud by winning medals at various international events in 2018. Mary Kom, Hima Das, Dutee Chand, Saina Nehwal, PV Sindhu, Manika Batra and others hogged the limelight