Chinese paddler Fan Siqi, world No. 13 Bernadette Szocs, Olympians Aruna Quadri and Alvaro Robles, and several rising Indian paddlers led by Junior World No. 6 Ankur Bhattacharjee will headline the Ultimate Table Tennis Season 6 player auction, set to take place in Mumbai on Tuesday.
The league also spotlighted the next generation of table tennis talent in Maharashtra, with teenagers Divyanshi Bhowmick (PBG Pune Jaguars) and Prateek Tulsani (Mumbai Mozartt) being named Best Women's and Men's Players, overall, as per a TTSL press release.
For the first time in the competition's history, teams have been given the freedom to handpick their own coaching staff. Joining them are returning coaches Elena Timina, Parag Agrawal, Subhajit Saha, Soumyadeep Roy, and Sachin Shetty, all eyeing their second UTT title, as per a UTT press rel
UTT will continue to strengthen in Season 6 with an exciting new franchise, Kolkata ThunderBlades, joining the league, consolidating table tennis' presence in a city with a rich, sporting heritage. Additionally, PBG will step onto the court in a bold new Pune Jaguars avatar
Earlier in the day, Manav Thakkar's historic run came to an end in the penultimate round, leaving him as the sole Indian male player to have reached a WTT Star Contender Semifinal. South Korea's Lim Jong-hoon and Shin Yu-bin, meanwhile, won the Mixed Doubles title with a straight-games victo
Achanta Sharath Kamal's two-decade-long legendary career came to a close on Saturday with a Round of 16 loss to Snehit Suravajjula in Men's Singles at the World Table Tennis (WTT) Star Contender Chennai 2025.
Sharath led three more Indians into the Round of 16 after Manav Thakkar and Snehit Suravajjula progressed from Men's Singles while Krittwika Roy advanced from Women's Singles, as per a press release from WTT.
Meanwhile, top-seeded Japanese duo Tomokazu Harimoto and Sora Matsushima dominated their Men's Doubles clash, while Miwa Harimoto and Miyuu Kihara mirrored their success in the Women's Doubles draw, as per a press release from WTT.
Currently training under Gautam Kulkarni and Harish Pujari, Dipak is competing in the table tennis competition in the C1 category of the Khelo India Para Games 2025 here at the Indira Gandhi Indoor Stadium.
Pairing up for Mixed Doubles, Asian Games medallist Ayhika Mukherjee and reigning three-time National Youth Champion Ankur Bhattacharjee sealed their place in the main draw of the WTT Star Contender Chennai 2025, overcoming Anirban Ghosh and Swastika Ghosh in a thrilling five-game battle on
The penultimate day of the Khelo India Para Games 2025 saw Paralympian Sonalben Patel from Gujarat secure gold in the women's Class 3 table tennis Category. The left-handed Sonalben beat Bihar's Vidya Kumari with consummate ease, as per a release from Khelo India Para Games.