Sathiyan Gnanasekaran

Indian table tennis player Yashaswini Ghorpade is heading to the World Table Tennis Team Championships with renewed confidence after winning her first senior national title and a silver medal. She participated in an intense training camp in Bengaluru, preparing for her team event debut.

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.

With the Tokyo Olympics now under ten days away, we are regularly profiling some of the biggest Indian and international medal contenders. Today we feature Indian table tennis player - sathiyan gnanasekaran.

The Indian men's table tennis team had a successful day at the Asian Games, winning both of their matches against Yemen and Singapore. They showcased their dominance with strong performances from sathiyan gnanasekaran, Achanta Sharath Kamal, and Harmeet Desai. These victories reflect India's strong start in the tournament, and the team will be aiming to continue their impressive performance.

sathiyan gnanasekaran has become only the second Indian table tennis player to win an ITTF event as he clinched the men's singles title of the Belgium Open.

It was organised to felicitate sathiyan gnanasekaran, Anthony Amalraj and Sharath Kamal Achanta.

India's Harmeet Desai and sathiyan gnanasekaran recorded convincing second round victories and progressed to the third round of the 2017 ITTF Challenge, Zagreb (Crotia) Open, according to information received on Friday.

India witnessed the best day at the Commonwealth Games 2018 so far winning 11 medals including three gold. Wrestlers and shooters continued their golden run while boxers also contributed to India's medal tally on Friday.

Table-toppers Dabang Smashers TTC, owned by DoIT Sports Management, became the first side to qualify for the semi-finals of this season of UTT notching a commanding 15-6 win over Empowerji Challengers at the Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose Indoor Stadium in Kolkata, on Tuesday.

Dabang Smashers Table Tennis Club on Monday announced that paddler sathiyan gnanasekaran will be their captain for this year's edition of the Ultimate Table Tennis (UTT) that begins in Pune on June 14.

Leading Indian paddler sathiyan gnanasekaran on Wednesday rose to a career-high 28 in the world rankings while compatriot Manika Batra became the first female from the country to break into the top-50.

Indian paddler sathiyan gnanasekaran suffered a straight game loss to Chinese Taipei's Chuang Chih-Yuan in the quarterfinals to crash out of the men's singles event of the WTT Contender 2022 in Zagreb, Croatia on Saturday.

India continued to be at third spot in the medal standings winning one gold and two bronze at the Commonwealth Games on Wednesday. Star wrestler Sushil Kumar will hit the mat in men's freestyle 74kg event on Thursday.

sathiyan gnanasekaran and Manika Batra aim to qualify for Paris Olympics in the World Mixed Doubles Olympic Qualification in Havirov against top pairs, with intense two-day competition and preparations in various locations.

Indian paddler sathiyan gnanasekaran pulled off an upset by beating world No. 6 and reigning European champion, Jorgic Darko, 3-1 to enter the men's singles round of 16 in the WTT Contender in Zagreb, Croatia.

India paddler sathiyan gnanasekaran stated that he has improved a lot since his Tokyo Olympics defeat and would continue this form for the World Championship.

Star table tennis player sathiyan gnanasekaran has achieved a historic milestone by becoming the first Indian to clinch a men's singles title at a WTT Feeder Series event held in Beirut, Lebanon. In a thrilling final showdown on Thursday night, he overcame fellow Indian Manav Thakkar with a score of 3-1 (6-11 11-7 11-7 11-4).

Indian table tennis player Manika Batra has advanced to the pre-quarterfinals at the Asian Games. Sreeja Akula, however, faced a disappointing defeat and is out of the competition. In the men's doubles event, two Indian pairs secured victories, while the mixed pairs faced defeats in closely contested matches.

India's sathiyan gnanasekaran on Monday scaled new heights in his rapidly rising career by becoming the first Indian to break into the top-25 of world rankings.

India's Bhavina Patel cruised to the women's singles class 3-5 para table tennis final and assured herself of a medal at the Commonwealth Games on Friday.

Ace Indian paddler Manika Batra starred on the opening day of the main draw of the World Table Tennis (WTT) Star Contender Goa as she registered three wins across formats at the Dr. Shyama Prasad Mukherjee Indoor Stadium in Panaji.

India's ace table-tennis player sathiyan gnanasekaran is excited after maintaining an unbeaten record in the Polish Superliga, saying it will boost his confidence ahead of the Tokyo Olympics that start on July 23 in Japan.

Helping Achanta Sharath Kamal and sathiyan gnanasekaran in the initiative is former player Neha Aggarwal. The trio has already raised Rs 7 lakh in four days. Financial help will be provided to players, coaches and umpires.

India maintained their third spot in the medal standings winning one gold and a bronze at the Commonwealth Games on Tuesday. All eyes will be on the shooters to extend India's tally while shuttlers will begin campaign in the singles and doubles events on Day 7.

Two-time Olympic medalist Sushil Kumar (74kg) and event debutant Rahul Aware (57kg) provided the golden touch as India snared an impressive seven medals, which included two in athletics, on the eighth day of the 21st Commonwealth Games in Australia.

India's medals hopes on Day 9 at the Commonwealth Games will continue to be rested on shooters and wrestlers while Indian men's hockey team will play their semifinal match against New Zealand.

Indian shooters enjoyed another fruitful day at the 21st Commonwealth Games as Shreyasi Singh won gold in the women's double trap event while Ankur Mittal and Om Mitharwal took bronze in their respective men's categories.