National ranking table tennis returns to Delhi after 13 years
A host of India players including reigning national champion Diya Chitale and Commonwealth Games gold medallists G Sathiyan and Harmeet Desai will headline the UTT National Ranking Table Tennis Tournament beginning in New Delhi from September 7.
The tournament has attracted as many as 2958 entries. Delhi State Table Tennis Association is hosting a national ranking tournament for the time first time since 2008 though the Table Tennis Federation of India had organised one in the capital back in 2012 with the support of Haryana.
The tournament will run from September 7 to 14 at the Thyagraj Stadium. The players will battle it out across 12 events including the senior, Under-19, Under-17, Under-15, Under-13 and Under-11 categories.
The national champions in the men’s field include Sathiyan, Harmeet, Anthony Amalraj and Soumyajit Ghosh, who disappeared from the national set-up after featuring at the 2012 London Olympics due to personal issues.
Diya will be the favourite in the women’s field including veteran Mouma Das, Madhurika Patkar, Reeth Rishya and Divya Deshpande.
Delhi-based India star Manika Batra is not available for the tournament as she is busy with international commitments with her world ranking slipping to 55.
– PTI
TENNIS
Maan Kesharwani in second round
Maan Kesharwani fought his way past Tegar Wibowo 2-6, 7-5, 6-2 in the first round of the $30,000 ITF men’s tennis tournament in Bali, Indonesia.
The results:
$30,000 ITF men, Nakhon Pathom, Thailand
Singles (first round): Seokhyeon Chu (Kor) bt Siddharth Vishwakarma 6-2, 4-6, 7-6(5).
Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Jesse Delaney (Aus) & Leo Vithoontien Jpn) bt Prasad Ingale & Shourya Manik 6-2, 6-2; Sai Karteek Reddy & S Mukund bt Penn Charusorn & Kamonpanyakorn Thadpong (Tha) 6-2, 6-3; Tarun Karra & Dheeraj Srinivasan bt Teerapat Khantiweerawat & Tanakorn Srirat (Tha) 7-5, 4-6, [16-14]; Seokhyeon Chu & Dong Ju Kim (Kor) bt Arthav Neema & Sidharth Rawat 6-2, 3-6, [10-5].
$30,000 ITF men, Bali, Indonesia
Singles (first round): Koki Matsuda (Jpn) bt Ajay Malik 6-3, 6-4; Alexander Klintcharov (Nzl) bt Atharva Sharma 5-1 (retired); Maan Kesharwani bt Tegar Wibowo (Ina) 2-6, 7-5, 6-2.
Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Ajay Malik & Yash Yadav bt Joao Graca & Diogo Morais (Por) 7-5, 2-6, [10-6].
$15,000 ITF men, Maanshan, China
Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Ivan Denisov & Vishnu Vardhan bt Artur Kukasian & Ruslan Tiukaev 7-5, 6-0.
$15,000 ITF men, Monastir, Tunisia
Singles (first round): Diogo Marques (Por) bt Chirag Duhan 6-1, 7-5.
$15,000 ITF men, Hong Kong
Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Parth Aggarwal & Ty Host (Aus) bt Jacob Shen & Sin Tam (Hkg) 6-3, 6-3.
$30,000 ITF women, Nakhon Pathom, Thailand
Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Sakura Hosogi & Misaki Matsuda (Jpn) bt Pooja Ingale & Anjali Rathi 6-1, 6-2; Monique Barry (Nzl) & Jiangxue Han (Chn) bt Papitchaya Isaro (Tha) & Chevika Sama 6-1, 6-0.
$15,000 ITF women, Kayseri, Turkey
Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Mandegar Farzami (Iri) & Irem Kurt (Tur) bt Aaddi Gupta & Adriana Tkachenko (Ukr) 6-3, 6-2.
– Kamesh Srinivasan
Published on Sep 02, 2025
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