China secures a set of medals in table tennis worlds
Budapest, April 26: China had a clean sweep of women’s singles semifinal berths at the World Table Tennis Championships here on Thursday. Olympic champion and world No. 1 Ding Ning beat arch rival Miu Hirono of Japan 11-8, 4-11, 11-2, 11-7, 11-9, the Xinhua news agency…
Indian challenge ends as Sathiyan bows out
Budapest, April 25: The Indian challenge at the Budapest ITTF World Championships came to an end when G. Sathiyan failed to go past Hugo Calderano of Brazil in the men singles round of 32. The Brazilian, ranked No. 7 in the world, took less than…
Sathiyan lone Indian survivor at ITTF World C’ship
Budapest, April 24: G. Sathiyan was the lone Indian survivor at the ITTF World Championships as he edged past Christian Pletea of Romania G. Sathiyan was the lone Indian survivor at the ITTF World Championships as he edged past Christian Pletea of Romania 11-5, 11-9, 6-11,…
Suthirta defeats Sabine, joins Manika in round 64
Budapest, April 23: India’s Suthirta Mukherjee scripted a 4-3 win in what was the biggest women singles upset in the ITTF World Championships at Budapest when she sent world No. 58 Sabine Winter of Germany packing on Tuesday. In the process, she joined Manika Batra,…
3 Indians join Manika in women singles main draw
New Delhi, April 22: Even as Suthirta Mukherjee, Madhurika Patkar and Archana Kamath qualified to join Manika Batra in the main draw of the ITTF World Championships on Monday, Anthony Amalraj and Manav Thakkar were just a match away from making the cut at the…
New rubber colours for table tennis rackets expected
Budapest, April 23: Visual outlook of table tennis may undergo great changes after the Tokyo Olympic Games with introduction of new colours for paddlers’ racket rubbers, the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) President Thomas Weikert announced here. The proposal has been in discussion during Monday’s…
Paddlers Manush, Raegan combine to bag bronze
Brussels, April 19: India’s young paddlers Manush Shah and Raegan Albuquerque clinched the bronze at the Belgium Junior and Cadet Open, a part of the ITTF Junior Circuit Premium, here on Friday. The duo paired up with Iran’s Amin Ahmadian and Radin Khayyam to win…
Sathiyan aims to be in top 15 by end of 2019
Kolkata, April 9: Sathiyan Gnanasekaran wants to be among the top 15 players in the world by the end of this year, but to achieve that, India’s top ranked paddler knows all too well that he has to work on his fitness to brave the grind…
Sathiyan ends sixth, but books World Cup berth
Yokohama, April 7: Fresh from his recent men’s singles title win at the Challenge Plus Oman Open, 17-year-old Lin Yun-Ju of Chinese Taipei proved far superior for 26-year-old G. Sathiyan of India and defeated him 4-0 (11-4, 11-8, 11-8, 14-12) to finish fifth in the ITTF-ATTU…
Paddler Sathiyan enters Asian Cup preliminary round
Yokohama, April 5: G. Sathiyan was the lone Indian to progress to the preliminary round while it was curtains for both A. Sharath Kamal and Manika Batra in the ITTF-ATTU Asian Cup table tennis meet here on Friday. Sathiyan, the world No. 28 who had…
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