Sreeja Akula

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.

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.

India's table tennis campaign was highlighted by Manika Batra and sreeja akula reaching the advanced rounds, but neither secured a spot in the semifinals. The women's team made it to the quarterfinals but fell short against Germany. The men's team, featuring Sharath Kamal, Harmeet Desai, and Manav Thakkar, exited in the Round of 16.

Young table tennis sensation sreeja akula, who clinched the mixed doubles gold medal with partner Achanta Sharath Kamal in the Commonwealth Games 2022, has said that playing with the Indian legend paddler was an amazing experience and she never felt that she was playing with such as senior player.

Indian table tennis legend Achanta Sharath Kamal defied age to team up with young sreeja akula to win the mixed doubles gold medal at the Commonwealth Games here on Sunday. Barring a blip in the second game, Sharath and Akula pair was in complete control of the tie, comfortably beating Javen Choong and Karen Lyne of Malaysia 11-4, 9-11, 11-5, 11-6 in the gold medal contest. Sharath produced a class act to also reach the men's singles final.

sreeja akula lost twice as the Indian women's team suffered a 1-3 defeat against top-seeded Japan in the quarterfinals of the Asian table tennis Championships.

India's table tennis star Manika Batra and compatriots Archana Kamath and sreeja akula recorded tough victories to enter the round of 16 at the WTT Contender here on Tuesday. Qualifier sreeja akula, ranked 150th, played her heart out against Swedish defender Linda Bergstorm, ranked 78th, to win 11-8, 6-11, 14-12, 2-11, 11-7.

sreeja akula, India's premier table tennis player, has suffered a stress fracture that will keep her out of action for six weeks. As a result, she will be unable to participate in the upcoming Ultimate Table Tennis (UTT) tournament, which is scheduled to commence on August 22.

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.

The Indian women's table tennis team faced a tough challenge when trailing 0-2 against Spain after the first two singles, but Ayhika Mukherjee's victory in the third singles kept India in the contest. The turning point came when Manika Batra and sreeja akula returned to secure victories in the fourth and fifth singles, propelling India to a 3-2 triumph in Busan.

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).

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.

India women's table tennis team was knocked out of the Commonwealth Games 2022 after suffering a 2-3 defeat against Malaysia in the quarterfinals on Saturday. The Indian duo of Reeth Tennison and sreeja akula fought hard against Malaysia's Karen Lyne and Li Sian Alice Chang in the first match of the women's quarterfinal tie to give India an opening group lead.

There's no stopping Sutirtha Mukherjee as the Olympian paddler's impressive show helped Bengal emerge as the overall champions in table tennis competition of the 36th National Games in Surat on Saturday.

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 a productive day for India at the SET Thailand Open junior table tennis tournament as its cadet girls entered the semifinals.

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.

Indian paddlers Manika Batra and sreeja akula entered the pre-quarterfinals of the Asia Continental Stage of 2023 WTTC Finals but the country's three other women in the fray lost their respective matches on Tuesday.

Indian table tennis player sreeja akula announced her withdrawal from the upcoming Ultimate Table Tennis season due to a stress fracture. The injury requires a six-week rest period, preventing her from competing until then. Akula, the nation's top-ranked player, had recently made Olympic history with Manika Batra.

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.

Local boy Harmeet Desai and the mixed doubles pair of Manush Shah and Krittwika Sinha Roy on Saturday ensured Gujarat registered their best-ever performance in table tennis the history of National Games.

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.

Telangana paddler sreeja akula, who represents her employer Reserve Bank of India, came from behind to pull off a thriller against Railways' Takeme Sarkar for the second title of the season of the UTT National Ranking (West Zone) Table Tennis Championship at the Sulochana Devi Singhania School in Thane on Friday.

Sharath Kamal and Manika Batra are set to lead India's teams at the 27th Asian Table Tennis Championships in Astana from October 7 to 13. The selection process emphasized world ranking, international experience, and national performance. Coach Massimo Constantini is hopeful for strong performances, crucial for qualifying for the World Championships and Asian Games.

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.

Veteran Achanta Sharath Kamal and Mouma Das taught the youngsters a trick or two as they ended up as the champion and runner-up in the men’s and women’s singles respectively of the 83rd Senior National and Inter-State Table Tennis Championships that concluded at the SAI Indoor Stadium in

Continuing their remarkable streak, India's women's doubles pair, consisting of Diya Chitale and sreeja akula, delivered an impressive performance to secure a spot in the semifinals of the WTT Contender in Zagreb on Friday.

At first glance, sreeja akula would pass for a regular girl next door. But give her a table tennis racquet and the wisp of a girl is transformed.

Indian paddler sreeja akula won the women's singles title at the WTT Feeder Beirut II, defeating Luxembourg's Sarah D Nutte 6-11, 12-10, 11-5, 11-9 at Al Kawthar Secondary School. This marks her second WTT singles title, following her win at Feeder Corpus Christi.