Less than three weeks after winning the titles at Vadodara and two days before the commencement of the National championship, Harmeet Desai and Archana Kamath added a second one for the season in the National ranking table tennis tournament here on Thursday. Desai overcame a spell of complacency that saw Manush Shah save six set-points in the opener after trailing …
Manush Shah’s magnificence helped Puneri Paltan TT, the home team, snatch the advantage from Bengaluru Smashers. But Jeet Chandra and Natalia Bajor’s late charge meant the adopted home team - with the Pune-based owners having a larger cheering squad than the home team - sneaked ahead to a 8-7 win in the Ultimate Table Tennis season four. Manika Batra and …
A serve is considered the most vital aspect in an extremely technical and complex game, even at the highest level. Had it not been for Captain G. Sathiyan’s service error in the opening game of mixed doubles rubber, Dabang Delhi T.T.C. would have ended up on the winning side versus Puneri Paltan TT, despite Manush Shah pulling off a heist …
Better sense, in a small degree, prevailed when the National selectors proceeded to make a course correction and rightly replaced Archana Kamath with a deserving Diya Chitale in the Indian women’s table tennis team for the Commonwealth Games, starting next month. However, the selectors retained the men’s team, where an equally-deserving Manush Shah was kept away. In response to the …
However, Manush Shah, who had also filed a writ petition in the Delhi High Court against his non-selection, remains a reserve player with no changes made in the men’s squad, which will be led by Sharath Kamal. New Delhi: Young Indian table tennis player Diya Chitale, who had approached the Delhi High Court over her exclusion from the women’s CWG …