Table Tennis: India
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2015
Commonwealth Table Tennis Championship
A record medals haul
The Times of India Dec 21 2015
Shweta Singh
Surat An impressive performance on Sunday ensured that India will end the 20th Commonwealth Table Tennis Championship with their best-ever medal haul in the competition. In the mixed doubles event, the hosts recorded a first when the pair of G Sathiyan and Ankita Das got past compatriots Soumyajit Ghosh and Mouma Das 3-1 to capture India's maiden gold in the event. The bronze was also won by India. The hosts have ensured as many as 16 medals, their highest-ever in CW TT beating nine which they got from the 2013 edition of the games in Delhi. Five Indian paddlers -Soumyajit, Anthony Amalraj, Sanil, Manika and Mouma Das -are certain of returning home with individual medals.
While in the men's doubles, four Indian pairs, -Harmeet DesaiGhosh, Abhishek Yadav-Sudhanshu Grover, Amalraj-Shetty and Sathiyan-Devesh, ensured that four more medals add to India's tally . In women's doubles, two Indian pairs, K Shamini-Mouma, Ankita-Manika, stormed their way into the semifinals to ensure at least a bronze.
India now have gold and silver in team's men and women's events, three medals in mixed doubles and with 11 still waiting in the wings, the tally touches a massive 16.
In men's singles quarters, world No. 95 Ghosh made easy work of Scotland's Gavin Rumgay in four straight games to sail in the semifinals where he will play world No. 176 Chen Feng of Singapore who accounted for Ghosh's compatriot G Sathiyan 11-13, 11-9, 7-11, 10-12, 11-4, 5-11.
In an all-Indian quarterfinals, qualifer Sanil Shetty broke the hearts of Surtis when he came from behind to upset local lad and fourth seed Harmeet Desai 9-11, 4-11, 11-9, 711, 11-8, 11-9, 11-5. Both the players displayed an array of forehand topspin shots from back of the table but in the end the southpaw Shetty prevailed over a nervous-looking Desai.
The other quarterfinals saw yet another all-India clash in which Amalraj defeated Abhishek Yadav.
Mouma, Manika assured of medal: Two Indian women Mouma Das and Manika Batra assured themselves of at least a bronze medal by reaching the semifinals. India No. 2 Mouma had a tough time against Pooja Sahasrabudhe who stretched her compatriot all the way . There was little to chose between the two girls but in the decider, Mouma's massive experience was too much for Pooja to handle.
India bag 16 medals in all
The Times of IndiaDec 22 2015
ShwetaSingh
It was a befitting Commonwealth Table Tennis Championship final in which Cheng Feng was made to work hard by India's Anthony Amalraj before the Singaporean could win the men's singles title here on Monday .
Amalraj's silver helped the Indian contingent clinch their best-ever medal haul of 16 including three gold, six silver and seven bronze in the tournament. India's highest tally before this was nine which the hosts managed in New Delhi in 2013. Singapore topped the medals tally with four gold medals and a team bronze.
Senior Table Tennis Nationals
2017: Sharath, Madhurika top
Kamal wins 7th national crown, Feb 6, 2017: The Times of India
Sharath had won his maiden title at Manesar nationals 13 years ago when Haryana had hosted the event in 2003.
Veteran Achanta Sharath Kamal bagged his seventh national crown in men's singles, while Madhurika Patkar became the champion for the first time in the women's singles at the 11Even Sports Senior Table Tennis Nationals.
In the men's singles final, a visibly tired Sharath beat an equal ly weary Soumyajit Ghosh 4-2 to clinch the title at the Manesar Sports Club here.
Madhurika downed six-time national champion Poulo mi Ghatak 4-0 in the women's singles final.
Sharath and Madhurika's efforts fetched them Rs. 2.2 lakh and Rs. 1.2 lakh, respectively. The confidence that Sharath had gained in the semifinals against fifth-seed Harmeet Desai had done a world of good as he went into the final against the two-time champion Ghosh.
World rankings and India
2017: Three Indians in top 100
Three Indian paddlers in top 100, May 4, 2017: The Times of India
Harmeet Desai has joined his India teammates, Sharath Kamal and Soumyajit Ghosh, by breaking the top-100 barrier to touch a career high 95 in the latest table tennis world rankings.
This is the first time ever that three Indians figure in top-100 of ITTF rankings.With his sterling show at the Wuxi Asian Championships, Harmeet moved five places ahead after being at No. 100 on the men's ranking list.
Sharath is still the top-ran ked Indian at No. 54 while Ghosh, despite winning the Chile Open on Sunday , made a small jump ahead, moving to 83 from 84. But the worst sufferer is Manika Batra who, from world No. 93, has been pushed to No. 103.
