Team India is set to participate in the ITTF Mixed Team World Cup 2024 table tennis tournament in Chengdu, China from December 1 to 8 which will be led by Manush Shah, Manav Thakkar and Poymantee Baisya.
Sreeja Akula created history earlier this week by becoming the first Indian table tennis player to win a WTT Contender singles title and on Tuesday she became India's top-most paddler with a career-high ranking of 24. The 25-year-old now hopes to carry the momentum and create a few upsets
Akula now holds the honour of being India's highest-ranked player in the Women's Singles standings, rising 19 spots to World No.24, leapfrogging Manika Batra.
Indian table tennis star Manika Batra achieved a career-high world number 24 in the latest International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) rankings issued on Tuesday. This is the first time ever that an Indian paddler has broken into the top 25 in singles rankings, as per Olympics.com.
Manika's standing in global table tennis improved massively following an impressive Saudi Smash tournament recently, as she became the first Indian singles player to reach the quarterfinals of a World Table Tennis Grand Smash event. In her run, she defeated world number two Wang Manyu of Chi
Sreeja Akula dethroned Manika Batra to become India's World No.1 as she moved up one spot to a career-best world No. 38 in the latest ITTF Table Tennis World Rankings issued on Tuesday.
Manika Batra and Sathiyan Gnanasekaran failed to secure a Paris Olympics 2024 quota from the World Mixed Doubles Table Tennis Olympic Qualification tournament in Havirov.
Paris 2024 will mark the first time that India will have representation in the team events at the Olympics. Both the men's and women's team events were introduced in the Olympic programme at Beijing 2008
The 2014 Wimbledon Champion in doubles and 2015 Wimbledon quarterfinalist in singles, Vasek Pospisil was ranked as high as 25 in singles in 2014 and fourth in the ATP doubles chart the following year. He also had a victory over the then-world number one, Andy Murray in 2017
India's biggest table tennis carnival is back as the second edition of the WTT Star Contender Goa is slated to take place in Goa from January 23 to 28, 2024.