Manav Thakkar

Shooter Samrat Rana and cricketer Smriti Mandhana were crowned Sportspersons of the Year at the TOISA 2025 awards in Lucknow. Javelin thrower Sumit Antil and archer Sheetal Devi also received top honours in the para category. The ceremony celebrated India's sporting achievements across numerous disciplines, recognising outstanding performances throughout 2025.

India's sporting elite converges in Lucknow for the Times of India Sports Awards, honouring a decade of excellence and the past year's achievements. The prestigious event, attended by legends and led by a distinguished jury, celebrates athletes across over 45 categories, including a significant focus on para-sports, recognizing outstanding performances and emerging talents who have made the nation proud.

The Times of India Sports Awards (TOISA) will be held on March 21, 2026, in Lucknow, celebrating India’s top athletes for performances in 2025 across 45+ categories, judged by legends like Abhinav Bindra and Mithali Raj. In table tennis, stars such as Sathiyan Gnanasekaran, manav thakkar, Manika Batra, and Diya Chitale headlined the year with major international wins and historic milestones.

Unseeded Siddhesh Pandey stunned emerging star manav thakkar 4-3 to win the National Ranking (East Zone) Table Tennis Championships at RG Barua Sports Complex's Indoor Stadium in Guwahati on Friday.

Indian paddler manav thakkar booked his ticket to the Buenos Aires Youth Olympics by defeating Singapore's Shao Josh Chua 4-0 on Tuesday.

It seems like these days Surat-based paddler manav thakkar is playing the best TT of his life yet and he is on cloud nine.

India's manav thakkar settled for a bronze medal in the U-21 singles category while Harmeet Desai progressed to the pre-quarterfinals of the men's singles in the ITTF Challenge Belgosstrakh Belarus Open here on Friday.

Top-seeded manav thakkar clinched the singles and doubles titles at the Portugal Junior and Cadet Open in Guimaraes.

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, 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.

manav thakkar of PSPB, who has been in great form for the last one year, bagged a double as the Surat boy won the men singles as well as the youth boys' title in the National Ranking (North Zone) Table Tennis Championships.

In junior final, Delhi's Parth Virmani was no match to a rampaging Manav who unleashed attacking strokes, varying his services cleverly, pushed Parth on the back foot to ran away with a 4-0 facile win.

Indian paddler manav thakkar settled for silver after losing in the final of the 2018 ITTF World Junior Circuit Finals at Luxembourg.

India's junior girls and cadet boys claimed team championship medals, winning all their round-robin matches on the inaugural day of the South Asian Junior and Cadet Table Tennis Championships.

India's table tennis team fell to China 0-3 in the pre-quarterfinals at the Paris Olympics, ending their campaign. Achanta Sharath Kamal initially led against Fan Zhendong but eventually lost. Harmeet Desai and manav thakkar also faced defeats in their respective matches. The Indian women’s team, however, advanced to the quarterfinals by defeating Romania 3-2 earlier.

India's 10-member table tennis squad for the Hangzhou Asian Games in September-October has been announced, with Achanta Sharath Kamal and Manika Batra leading the team. The objective is to replicate the historic success achieved in the previous edition.

A 10-member table tennis squad including Manika Batra and Sharath Kamal has been selected for the Asian Games by the Table Tennis Federation of India (TTFI).

The Indian boys' team entered Stage 2 of the World Junior Table Tennis Championships after registering its second successive win in Group D at Riva del Garda in Italy on Monday.

A Ahmedabad local boy, Manush Shah, outwitted giantkiller Delhi's Sudhanshu Grover in a men's table tennis match to win his maiden title at the Utt National Ranking Championships in Vadodara, on Saturdays. Sudhanshu, who had upset Pspb's Harmeet Desai in the quarters and manav thakkar in the semis, was on his way to beat the third paddler from the state on the trot, but the local boy got his act together and won the next two games to inch closer to the men's crown. The tall and gritty Sudhanshu, however, was in no mood to relent, and came back to win the 4th game to clinch the men's crown in the women's final. Rpsb's Moumita Dutta crushed Archana Kamath of Pspb in a women's final, also winning her maiden title. Gujarat paddler manav thakkar representing Pspb and his partner Archana Pspb defeated the RBI duo of Raj Mondal and Ayhika Mukherjee in the mixed double title. Harmeet Sharath Sathiyan will battle it out at nationals in Surat, Harmeet Desai will target

Surat's prolific paddler manav thakkar's case was so near yet so far during the recently concluded 75th Cadet and Sub-Junior National Table Tennis Championships held in Ajmer.

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.

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

manav thakkar, Varuni Jaiswal and Ishhita Gupta helped India wrest the initiative and win three singles gold medals, apart from the Junior Boys doubles gold, to lift the sagging morale of the hosts in ITTF 2016 India Junior and Cadet Open Table Tennis Championships on Sunday.

He may be in the form of his life. Surat-based paddler manav thakkar has been displaying superb table tennis skills and has kept Indian flag flying high at various places in the recent past.

Dabang Smashers became the first team to claim a semifinal spot by thrashing Empowerji Challengers 15-6 in the Ultimate Table Tennis' last leg's opening match at the Netaji Indoor Stadium here on Tuesday.

The Indian 'A' boys team bagged the bronze medal in the juniors' team event of the SET 2017 Thailand Junior & Cadet Open, an ITTF World Junior Circuit Golden Series tournament, in Bangkok.

India No 1 has worked with mental trainer to turn it around.

The TT star wants to meet Neeraj Chopra and PV Sindhu in Paris

Indian paddler, manav thakkar emerged as the winner at the 2016 ITTF World Circuit Junior & Cadet Open in the junior boys section on Sunday.