Indian paddler Sreeja Akula in motion through the World Table Tennis Star Contender Goa 2024, in Mapusa, on January 27, 2024.
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CWG combined doubles champion Sreeja Akula on Tuesday turned the top-ranked Indian lady desk tennis player after rising to career-high rank of 38 in newest ITTF Chart, changing Manika Batra.
Sreeja climbed a spot whereas Manika who had been India’s primary TT player for some time now, slipped two locations to 39 within the newest replace.
The 25-year-old Sreeja has loved run this 12 months, successful the WTT Feeder Corpus Christi and WTT Feeder Beirut titles in January and March respectively in addition to reaching the quarterfinal of the WTT Star Contender in Goa.
Sreeja had received the combined doubles gold medal on the 2022 Commonwealth Games alongside veteran Sharath Kamal.
Yashaswini Ghorpade and Archana Kamath held on to their 99th and one hundredth spot within the rankings.
Sharath continues to be the top-ranked male player, occupying the 37 spot within the rankings whereas G Sathiyan and Manav Thakar have interchanged locations to be sixtieth and 61st respectively.
National champion Harmeet Desai’s, who was the highest ranked Indian a few months a in the past, descent continues as he dropped to the sixty fourth spot.
India has already certified for the group occasions on the Paris Olympics.
Two singles entries in males’s and girls’s singles will probably be determined by the Table Tennis Federation of India by May 16 after contemplating the world rankings on the time.
