The CoA also finalised former players S Raman and Anindita Chakraborty as the coaches for the men's and women's teams for the Games in Birmingham.
Earlier, the CoA had announced an eight-member squad in Bangalore with the women's team seeking approval from the Sports Authority of India. The Committee had named Diya Chitale as a standby and as a result, she has now filed a writ petition in the D
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Sutirtha Mukherjee and Ayhika Mukherjee, and Sreeja Akula and Selenadeepthi Selvakumar entered the medal round in women’s doubles.
Gita Mittal, chairperson of the Committee of Administrators (CoA) appointed to run the Table Tennis Federation of India (TTFI), on Sunday urged the coaches in the sport to be objective and fair while making selections and assessments.
The table tennis federation decided to put on hold the Senior Nationals, slated in Shillong from January 22 to 29.
The world number 37 from India defeated his 179th-ranked opponent Russia's Vladimir Sidorenko 11-9, 11-9, 11-8, 11-6 in the round of 64.
Achanta Sharath Kamal and G Sathiyan, the higher-ranked team, defeated Chew Zhe Yu Clarence and Beh Kun Ting of Singapore 3-0 in their quarter-final match
In the semifinals, the clinical South Koreans proved too tough for the Indians who failed to win a single tie.
Japan's world No.19 Hitomi Sato tamed Sreeja Akula 11-5, 11-3, 11-3 in the first match, while Archana Kamath went down fighting to Saki Shibata 12-1- 7-11 4-11 12-10 9-11.
India, who had made it to the Champions Division after their stellar showing in the last edition, were also handed a direct entry into the eight-team main draw of the ITTF-ATTU joint event.
The Delhi High Court Monday sought the Centre's stand on a petition by Manika Batra, who was left out of the Indian contingent for the upcoming Asian Table Tennis Championships by TTFI.
Bhavina Patel, after securing Silver Medal on her Paralympic Games debut in Tokyo, returned to India.
Paralympics silver medallist Bhavina credited her success to the TT Robot (Butterfly - Amicus Prime), which cost Rs 2,73,500, and an Ottobock Wheelchair, costing Rs 2,84,707, for her success.
Patel scripted history on Saturday when she stunned her world no. 3 Chinese opponent 3-2 to become the first Indian table tennis player to reach the Paralympics final.
The 34-year-old from Gujarat stunned her world no. 3 Chinese opponent 7-11 11-7 11-4 9-11 11-8 in the semifinal showdown that lasted 34 minutes.
Bhavinaben Patel continued to script history as she became the first Indian to enter the final of a table tennis event in the Paralympics with a hard-fought 3-2 win over China's Miao Zhang in a class 4 semifinal here on Saturday.
Competing in the women's Class 3 category, Sonalben was ahead after the first three games but lost momentum to lose 11-9, 3-11, 17-15, 7-11 4-11 against Li Quan of China.
The Indian duo entered the pre-quarterfinals of their respective events at the WTT Contender Budapest 2021 tournament.
While 60th-ranked, Batra defeated 115-ranked Sabine Winter of Germany, Kamath upset 58th-ranked Yana Noskova of Russia.
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