New Delhi: Indian paddlers Achanta Sharath Kamal and K Shamini have failed to qualify for the knockout stages of the 26th Table Tennis Asian Cup, being played at the Queen Elizabeth Stadium in Hong Kong. Honk Kong's Tang Peng defeated Sharath (70), the highest-ranked Indian in the world, 13-11, 7-11, 5-11, 11-1, 11-8, 11-7 in the qualification play-off round. Sharath grabbed a 2-1 lead over the local favourite after losing...
06:17 PM, Apr 13, 2013
New Delhi: The Table Tennis Federation of India (TTFI) has zeroed in on 10 paddlers who will be attending the coaching camps in Sweden and China for about 15 days in order to prepare themselves for the forthcoming World Table Tennis Championships to be held in Paris in May. The men's team, consisting of Achanta Sharath Kamal, Soumyajit Ghosh, Sanil Shetty, Harmeet Desai, Soumyadeep Roy and Anthony Amal Raj will...
09:38 AM, Apr 11, 2013
New Delhi: A 10-member Indian table tennis team, including reigning national champion Anthony Amalraj and Achanta Sharath Kamal, will participate in the GAC Group ITTF World Tour German Open which began on Wednesday at Bremen. Some of the players named in the team are already in Sweden playing in the European circuit and they will join those who left for Bremen in the wee hours on Wednesday, a Table Tennis...
09:56 PM, Oct 31, 2012
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
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
New Delhi: Ace paddlers Achanta Sharath Kamal and Poulumi Ghatak will lead a six-member Indian team in the Olympics qualification tournament to be held in Hong Kong from April 19 to 22. The six-member Indian contingent will have three men - 2006 Commonwealth Games gold medallist Sharath, newly-crowned national champion Anthony Amalraj and Soumyajit Ghosh - and three women - reigning national champion Ghatak, Shamini Kumaresan and young Ankita Das....
06:54 PM, Mar 20, 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
India's Commonwealth Games' heroes returned home to a rousing welcome after doing their nation proud. ...
11:49 AM, Oct 16, 2010
New Delhi: Olympian Achanta Sharath Kamal won a bronze, defeating compatriot Soumyadeep Roy 4-0 in the men's singles third place play-off as Indian paddlers finished their campaign in the Commonwealth Games with five medals, including a gold, on Thursday. Reigning national champion Poulomi Ghatak and Mouma Das also claimed another bronze for India, beating Australian duo of Tan Z Vivian and Campbell-Innes Peri 3-0 in the women's doubles' play-off at...
04:31 PM, Oct 14, 2010
New Delhi: Olympian Achanta Sharath Kamal and Subhajit Saha assured India of a medal from table tennis when they beat English pair of Andrew Baggaley and L Pitchford 3-2 to enter the final of the men's doubles final at the Commonwealth Games here on Wednesday. However, Soumyadeep Roy could not clear the semifinal hurdle as he meekly surrendered to world number 17 Gao Ning of Singapore, going down 0-4 at...
11:31 AM, Oct 13, 2010
New Delhi: Indian athletics soared to a new high at the Commonwealth Games here on Tuesday with the women's quartet of Mandeep Kaur, Manjeet Kaur, Sini Jose and Ashwini Chidananda winning the gold in the 4x400 metres Relay, topping Monday's 1-2-3 showing by the women discus throwers. The Indians clocked 3:27.77 seconds and left Nigeria (silver, 3:28.72) and England (3:29.51) behind. In the morning, women shooters Heena Sidhu and Annu...
09:50 PM, Oct 12, 2010
New Delhi: Olympian Achanta Sharath Kamal and Soumyadeep Roy registered victories in contrasting styles to enter the singles semifinals, while two Indian pairs also added to the country's medal hopes in the Commonwealth Games' table tennis competition on Tuesday. Defending champion Sharath eased past Singapore's Ma Liang 4-1, while Soumyadeep quelled stiff challenges before beating another Singaporean Cai Xiaoli with an identical scoreline at the Yamuna Sports Complex. Meanwhile, the...
08:24 PM, Oct 12, 2010
