Achanta Sharath Kamal, the Commonwealth Games winner, and Manika Batra, India’s finest girls’s participant, will lead the Indian marketing campaign on the World Table Tennis Championships Finals 2023, which start on Saturday in Durban, South Africa.
There are 11 gamers within the Indian desk tennis crew. Sharath Kamal will captain the five-man males’s squad, which options Olympian Sathiyan Gnanasekaran and bronze medalists Manav Thakkar and Harmeet Desai from the Asian Games 2018. Manush Shah can also be included within the squad, as per Olympics.com. India’s top-ranked males’s desk tennis participant is Sathiyan Gnanasekaran, who’s rated 51st on the planet, adopted by Sharath Kamal, who’s ranked 53rd. The seasoned pair may also compete within the males’s doubles occasion.
Apart from singles and males’s doubles, Sathiyan Gnanasekaran will compete in combined doubles alongside Manika Batra. The pair is ranked fifth on the planet. At the World Table Tennis Championships, India has solely gained two medals. At the primary 1926 occasion, the lads’s crew and SRG Suppiah within the males’s singles each gained bronze.
The onus will probably be on world No. 39 Manika Batra to ship for India within the girls’s competitors. She will compete in singles and girls’s doubles partnering Archana Kamath. In girls’s doubles, the pair is rated No. 12 on the planet.
In girls’s singles, nationwide champion Sreeja Akula (world No. 112), Olympian Sutirtha Mukherjee (world No. 113), and Reeth Tennison (world No. 176) will compete.
The singles competitors will start with a spherical of 128 whereas the doubles occasions will start with a spherical of 64. The occasion will finish on May 28. For the primary time because the 1939 version in Egypt, the desk tennis world championships are being hosted on the African continent.
Indian squad for ITTF World Table Tennis Championships Finals 2023
-Men’s singles: Sharath Kamal, Sathiyan Gnanasekaran, Manush Shah, Harmeet Desai
-Women’s singles: Manika Batra, Sreeja Akula, Sutirtha Mukherjee, Reeth Tennison
-Men’s doubles: Sharath Kamal/Sathiyan Gnanasekaran, Harmeet Desai/Manush Shah
-Women’s doubles: Manika Batra/Archana Kamath, Sreeja Akula/Diya Chitale
-Mixed doubles: Sathiyan Gnanasekaran/Manika Batra, Manav Thakkar/Archana Kamath
