Archana Kamath

Star paddler Manika Batra was on Wednesday left out of the India squad for the Asian Championships beginning September 28 in Doha after she did not attend the mandatory national camp in Sonepat. In the absence of the world number 56th player, 97th-ranked Sutirtha Mukherjee will lead the women's team. The other members are Ayhika Mukherjee (ranked 131) and archana kamath (132).

archana kamath and Selena Selvakumar topped their respective groups to advance in the cadet section of the Thailand Open junior and sub-junior table tennis tournament.

archana kamath, who concentrated only on singles, claimed both junior and cadet girls titles beating Surbhi Patwari 4-3 and Moumita Datta 4-1 respectively in the 11Sports 79th Junior and Youth National Table Tennis Championships.

Star India paddler Manika Batra, G Sathiyan and archana kamath failed to bag a medal at the World Table Tennis Championships after crashing out in the quarterfinals of the mixed and women's doubles events

India added another golden chapter to the 21st Commonwealth Table Tennis Championships when its mixed doubles pair of G. Sathiyan and archana kamath defeated Singapore's Peng Yu En Koen–Goi Rui Xuan 3-0 in the final in Cuttack on Sunday.

It was another good day for Indian paddlers as 10 of them reached the pre-quarterfinals of the Thailand Open junior and sub-junior table tennis tournament.

In a huge relief to the Table Tennis Federation of India (TTFI), the Karnataka high court on Wednesday dismissed a petition filed by paddler archana kamath.Archana had challenged her non-selection for the Birmingham Commonwealth Games (CWG) beginning on July 28.

Indian junior paddlers bagged three bronze medals in the Belgium Junior and Cadet Open Table Tennis Championship, which is part of the ITTF World Junior Circuit, according to information received here.

The Ahmedabad boy, Manush Shah, and the India No. 4 manush, Shah, both entered the men's final of the Utt National Ranking Table Tennis Championship in Vadodara on Friday. The 23-year-old Manush conquered Bengal's rising talent, Ankur Bhattacharjee, who had won the boys' under17 title earlier in the day. Manush asserted his dominance from the word go and pushed the youngster to the wall to post a 41 victory in the summit clash. The southpaw will take on Sudhanshu Grover, who defeated Manav Thakkar, PSPB, 42 in the other semifinal. The women's final will feature archana kamath of PSPB and RSPBs Moumita Dutta. Archana beat Anusha Kutumbale, 42 in the semifinals. Moumita got the better of her RPSB teammate, B.P. Oymangtee, 42 in the semifinals. The results are: Youth Boys U17 Final Ankur Bhattacharjee, Ben A, BT S preyesh, TN 114114611711117114 Youth Girls U17 Final Suhana Saini, Har, BT Taneesha

India No. 3 Diya Chitale has filed a writ petition in Delhi High Court after being overlooked for the national Table Tennis squad that will take part in the upcoming Commonwealth Games with the Committee of Administrators (CoA) headed by a former decathlete allegedly selecting a player who does not meet the eligibility criteria.

Top paddlers Achanta Sharath Kamal and Sreeja Akula are set to lead India's charge at the Birmingham Commonwealth Games as the Committee of Administrators (CoA), managing the affairs of table tennis in the country, announced an eight-member squad here on Tuesday following the conclusion

A. Sharath Kamal and Manika Batra led the Indian men's and women's table tennis teams at the Paris Olympics, marking India's first participation in the Games. The squad featured six members, with G. Sathiyan and Ayhika Mukherjee as alternates. This talented lineup aimed to make a significant impact on the global stage.

Indian table tennis player archana kamath has decided to quit competitive sports for a postgraduate degree in Public Policy at Michigan University. This decision came 24 days after the Paris Olympics. Kamath has always excelled in academics, achieving notable successes while simultaneously balancing a rigorous sports career. She has now chosen academics over continuing her athletic journey.

Ten gold, six silver and seven bronze medals. And a whopping 97% in the second PUC arts examinations with a centum in psychology! That is table tennis player archana kamath’s score this year.

Veteran Sharath Kamal and world number 24 Manika Batra have been chosen to lead the Indian men's and women's teams, respectively, for the Paris Games, marking the nation's inaugural participation in team events at the Olympics. Following the criteria set by the Olympics, the senior selection committee of the Table Tennis Federation of India assembled a six-member squad and finalized the participants for the singles events.

The Indian mixed doubles pair of Manav Thakkar and archana kamath clinched a silver medal after losing their final match, as did the women's doubles duo of Sutirtha Mukherjee and Ayhika Mukherjee at the WTT Contender tournament in Muscat on Saturday. On Friday, Sreeja Akula and Selenadeepthi Selvakumar had won a women's doubles bronze after losing in the semifinals to Sutirtha and Ayhika.

India's women's table tennis team made history by reaching the 2024 Paris Olympics quarter-finals. archana kamath, the standout player, secured their only win against Germany but soon retired to focus on her academic career abroad. Despite significant support from various sponsors, Archana was inspired by her brother to pursue studies over continuing her sports career.

Having a month long international league is a much needed boost for Indian table tennis but it is not enough make the country a force to reckon with, said former India coach Peter Engel.

Indian paddlers archana kamath and Sreeja Akula qualified for the women's singles main draw of the WTT Contender Muscat 2022.

archana kamath's stunning run in the table tennis competition of the Youth Olympics ended with a loss in the semifinals on Wednesday.

In the women's singles final, Bengaluru's archana kamath lost to Moumita Dutta of the Railways 14-811-1210. This was Moumita's first crown at this level. Archana combined well with Manav Thakkar of PSPB to become the first pair to win the mixed doubles title in national ranking events. The duo defeated Ayhika Mukherjee and Raj Mondal of RBI 31-811-1210 in the final of an event which was introduced in the national ranking meet here. Archana who was unseeded in women's singles started with the qualification rounds and showed glimpses of her prowess in the earlier rounds in a keenly-fought semifinal encounter against anusha Kutumbale of MP. She raised her game when she was 2 down to clinch the third game point. The win kept her in the match in the final. Moumita, a promising player from her junior days played a percentage game and converted all the negative points to her advantage despite losing the second game after the deuce. Yashaswini Ghorpade of Karnataka too settled for the silver medal losing to Suhana Saini of Haryana 8-11-211-12

Top seed Sathiyan Gnanasekaran led a strong Indian charge as three players in men's singles and two in women's singles made it to the Round of 16 at the ITTF Czech International Open in Olomouc, the Czech Republic on Monday.

PSPB Academy's Manav Thakkar, justifying his top billing, routed No. 3 Jeet Chandra from West Bengal 4-0 to win the junior boys singles title in the National Ranking (Central Zone) Table Tennis Championships at the Abhay Prashal Stadium here today.

Top paddlers Achanta Sharath Kamal and Sreeja Akula are set to lead India's charge at the Birmingham Commonwealth Games as the Committee of Administrators (CoA), managing the affairs of table tennis in the country, announced an eight-member squad here on Tuesday following the conclusion of the week-long national camp.

India’s G Sathiyan and archana kamath won the mixed doubles gold at the Commonwealth Table Tennis championship with consummate ease at Jawaharlal Nehru Indoor Stadium here on Sunday. The top-seeded duo defeated Singapore’s Yu En Koen Pang and Goi Rui Xuan 11-1, 11-7, 11-4 to win the Guernsey Cup.

The 11-member Indian squad will participate at the 2023 World Table Tennis Championships slated to be held in Durban from May 20 to 28. CWG gold medallist Sharath Kamal and Manika Batra, the top-ranked Indian women player, will spearhead the Indian challenge at the event.

Manika Batra has jumped six places to enter the top-50 of the women's singles world rankings for the first time. Batra has reached a career high 50th in the latest ITTF rankings. In the men's singles rankings, G Sathiyan has moved up places to reach 33rd position while Sharath Kamal has slipped two places to be 34th.