The Indian males’s and ladies’s desk tennis groups have obtained quotas for the Paris 2024 Olympics based mostly on their respective rankings, the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) confirmed on Monday.
Paris 2024 will mark the primary time that India may have illustration within the crew occasions on the Olympics. Both the boys’s and ladies’s crew occasions had been launched within the Olympic programme at Beijing 2008. (Roger Federer Shares Thailand Trip But Fans Can’t Stop Talking About His Wife’s Unusual Feet)
The Indian males, fifteenth on the earth crew rankings, and the Indian ladies ranked thirteenth, secured the quotas based mostly on the newest rankings for March. A complete of 16 desk tennis groups will compete in every of the boys’s and ladies’s crew occasions on the Paris Olympics.
According to the foundations, the highest-ranked groups, which hadn’t certified instantly by way of any of the qualifying tournaments held earlier than, obtained quotas to Paris 2024 by way of the rankings route.
Besides the Indian ladies, Thailand (11), Poland (12) and Sweden (15) made the lower for Paris 2024 by way of the rankings pathway. Croatia (12) and Slovenia (11), in the meantime, had been the opposite groups who secured their spots within the males’s occasion. (‘Stay Soft…’, Sania Mirza Shares Another Cryptic Message After Divorce But Does Not Mention Shoaib Malik, Sana Javed)
The Indian groups had missed out on Olympic quotas after failing to qualify for the quarter-finals of the World Team Table Tennis Championships Finals 2024 final month. However, with the crew quotas now secured by way of rankings, India additionally obtained two quotas every within the males’s and ladies’s singles occasions.
As National Olympic Committees (NOC) have the unique authority for the illustration of their respective nations on the Olympic Games, athletes’ participation on the Paris Games is determined by their NOC choosing them to symbolize their delegation at Paris 2024.
For the desk tennis crew occasions, the competitors on the Paris Olympics will begin from the spherical of 16 onwards.
At the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, India despatched a four-member desk tennis contingent that included veteran Sharath Kamal, Sathiyan Gnanasekaran, Sutirtha Mukherjee and Manika Batra. However, they competed in singles and combined doubles solely. India are but to win a medal in desk tennis on the Olympics.
