New Delhi: Achanta Sharath Kamal and national champion Anthony Amalraj failed to book a berth for the upcoming London Games after crashing out of the World Olympic Qualification Table Tennis Tournament in Doha, Qatar on Saturday. Former national champion Poulomi Ghatak also could not qualify for the Olympics after a 2-4 loss in the second round late on Friday. After a brilliant first round, Sharath and Amalraj drew a blank...
05:08 PM, May 12, 2012
New Delhi: With three of the four Indian paddlers already through to the next stage of the final World Olympic Qualification Tournament in Doha, national table tennis coach Bhawini Muhherji says his wards are "motivated enough" to make it to the Olympics. "Their sole aim is to qualify for the London Olympics and they are motivated enough to do that," Mukherji told PTI over phone from Qatar. Indian paddlers were...
07:16 PM, May 11, 2012
Doha: India made a positive start to their campaign at the final World Olympic Qualification table tennis championships with as many as three out of the nation's four paddlers registering wins in their tournament openers in Doha on Thursday. In the men's section, both Anthony Amalraj and Achanta Sharath Kamal kept alive their London dreams, securing their places in the next round with consummate ease. While national champion Amalraj defeated...
08:12 PM, May 10, 2012
New Delhi: Soumyajit Ghosh and Ankita Das booked their London Olympics berths on Sunday in the Asian Olympic Qualification Table Tennis Tournament in Hong Kong, but it was heartbreak for top paddler Achanta Sharath Kamal. For both Ghosh and Ankita, the berths came via the continental quotas, after they topped from the South Asian region. Ghosh defeated Anthony Amal Raj 4-0 (12-10, 11-9, 11-6, 11-7) and Ankita downed K. Shamini...
04:41 PM, Apr 22, 2012
New Delhi: Indian ace Achanta Sharath Kamal failed to seal the fifth Olympic qualifying spot at the Asian qualification table tennis tournament in Hong Kong on Saturday, but he still has a chance to get a London Games berth. Sharath Kamal lost 2-4 (12-10, 9-11, 9-11, 11-6, 8-11, 8-11) to Kim Song Nam of North Korea at the Queen Elizabeth Stadium. By losing the match to the North Korean, whom...
10:51 AM, Apr 22, 2012
New Delhi: Achanta Sharath Kamal failed to seal the fifth Olympic qualifying spot at the Asian Qualification Table Tennis tournament in Hong Kong on Saturday but he still has a chance for a London Games berth. Sharath Kamal lost 2-4 (12-10, 9-11, 9-11, 11-6, 8-11, 8-11) to Kim Song Nam of North Korea at the Queen Elizabeth Stadium. By losing the match to the North Korean, whom he had beaten...
11:37 PM, Apr 21, 2012
Dortmund, Germany: India finished 27th in the men's and women's category at the World Team Table Tennis Championships in Germany. The Anthony Amalraj-led men's side beat Brazil 3-2 on Saturday in a second division match for the 27-28 positions. Top paddler Sharath Kamal was rested for the game. The women downed Italy 3-1 for an identical finish in the tournament. With the 27th place in either category, India bettered their...
02:51 PM, Apr 02, 2012
Dortmund, Germany: India's top paddler Achanta Sharath Kamal won both his singles, which proved crucial as India defeated England 3-1 in the World Table Tennis Championships here this Friday. The Indians will now take on Romania, who beat Italy 3-2, in the match for positions 25-28. The women paddlers, on the other hand, had a tough outing against Slovakia but fought well to win 3-2. They will be meeting Australia...
02:09 PM, Mar 31, 2012
New Delhi: The Indian paddlers, both in men and women's sections, made it to the second stage of the World Table Tennis Championships, in Dortmund, on Wednesday. According to a media release sent by TTFI, men's team, comprising of Sharath Kamal, Amal Raj, Soumyajit Ghosh, Sanil Shetty and Soumyadeep Roy, placed in group E second division, progressed after beating Finland, Nigeria, Canada with identical 3-0 margins in thoir respective matches,...
10:08 PM, Mar 28, 2012
Jalgaon: President Pratibha Patil plays table tennis during a visit to MJ College in Jalgaon. President Patil attended a function organised by College of Engineering and Technology of Shram Sadhana Bombay Trust, the President noted that India has about 3,500 engineering colleges with over 4.5 lakh students graduating every year, but the capacity is falling short of the requirement. Observing that the role of technology and innovation has become more...
01:57 PM, Mar 26, 2012
New Delhi: A wild, top-of-the-table celebration is set to cost the new table tennis champion A. Amalraj a quarter of his winner's purse, the national federation has said in a statement. Pitted against six-time national champion Achanta Sharath Kamal in the final of the men's event at the 73rd Senior National and Inter-State Table Tennis Championships on Sunday, Amalraj had a difficult job at hand. The 25-year-old paddler conjured up...
03:37 PM, Jan 30, 2012
New Delhi: At the 2008 Beijing Olympics, India " a nation of over one billion " was represented by just 56 athletes. They finished with a total of three medals; one gold, two bronze. At the same event, considered the benchmark of sporting/athletic excellence, Australia " a nation of some 21 million " had a whopping 482 athletes representing and raked home a total of 46 medals; 14 gold, 15...
07:06 AM, Nov 07, 2011
New Delhi: China's players and coaches maintain that their country is dominating world table tennis because their structured coaching system churns out champion after champion. Winning nine of the 10 titles on offer at the Asian junior championships that concluded here Sunday, the Chinese were clearly too good for the field. For the record, four of the world's top five men and women players are Chinese. They are known to...
05:43 PM, Jul 26, 2011
The former World Champion also talks about China's dominance and how the sport has become more physical today. ...
01:03 PM, Jun 27, 2011
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