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Table Tennis: 75th national championship begins today

Patna: Top paddlers of the country, including Sharath Kamal, Soumyajit Ghosh, K. Shamini, Mouma Das, Neha Agrawal will be seen in action in Patna in the 75th Senior National and Inter-State Table Tennis Championship at


The national teams, comprising five-member squads in men's and women's categories, will be selected on the concluding day of the tournament for the forthcoming Commonwealth Table Tennis Championship to be held at Glasgow (Scotland) and Asian Games to be held in South Korea, he said.

He said a total sum of Rs. 9.5 lakh will be distributed as cash prize among the winners and runners and other ranked players along with trophy.

The Chairman of the Bihar Table Tennis Association Sanjay Singh said the round-robin matches will be played in 13 different international standard tables to be presided over by 55 officials, namely umpires and referees. He said the live scoring updates will be on TTFI's website which would be a first.