Indian Table Tennis Thread ...

[gunsnroses]

Do we know who are those two ?

[sameerph]

Do we know who are those two ?

2 highest ranked players in men and women as on 18th June, 2024.

[sameerph]

Sreeja Akula is now ranked at a career high of #40 this week and for the first time we have 2 Indian women in top 40.

Today, Manika Batra lost in a very close match against world #6 Japanese in 5 games in WTT champions Intanon, South Korea. Our women players seem to be getting better and better.

[SaniaFan]

I believe there was a thread where we were updating who all have qualified for Paris Olympics? We should update that.

[sameerph]

I believe there was a thread where we were updating who all have qualified for Paris Olympics? We should update that.

It is updated in the first post of Paris Olympics thread-

Paris Olympics thread

[gunsnroses]

Men's singles rankings:

Sharath Kamal - WR#35
Sathiyan Gnanasekaran - WR#60
Manav Thakkar - WR#63
Harmeet Desai - WR#67

Women's singles rankings:

Manika Batra - WR#38
Sreeja Akula - WR#40
Archana Girish Kamath - WR#99
Yashaswini Ghorpade - WR#102

Men's doubles rankings:

Manav Thakkar/Manush Shah - WR#13
Sathiyan Gnanasekaran/Sharath Kamal - WR#58
Jeet Chandra/Snehit Suravajjula - WR#98

Women's doubles rankings:

Sutirtha Mukherjee/Ayhika Mukherjee - WR#13
Sreeja Akula/Diya Chitale - WR#28
Manika Batra/Archana Kamath - WR#49

Mixed doubles rankings:

Sathiyan Gnanasekaran/Manika Batra - WR#17
Manav Thakkar/Archana Kamath - WR#32
Manush Shah/Diya Chitale - WR#37

[gunsnroses]

I am given to understand that India will have a coach soon, ..

Read more at:
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/arti ... aign=cppst

[prasen9]

The very unlikely hope for an Olympics medal is if one of the doubles teams goes on a tear and pulls off three big upsets in a row ... one can dream, right? Not expecting anything.

[gunsnroses]

Manika Batra and Sreeja Akula will be representing India at the ITTF Women's World Cup in Macao, China starting from 15th April 2024
It's a singles only competition

Sharath Kamal couldn't make it as his ranking was not in the top 48 before the cutoff date (9th week - 27th Feb 2024)

[gunsnroses]

Mixed doubles world qualifiers on 11th-12th April where Manika/Sathiyan will be playing to get into Paris Olympics
They need to reach semis to qualify

[Anirban]

The very unlikely hope for an Olympics medal is if one of the doubles teams goes on a tear and pulls off three big upsets in a row ... one can dream, right? Not expecting anything.

Dada, I think there is no separate medal for either Men's or Women's doubles... Total of 5 Golds are on offer - Men’s and Women’s singles, Men’s and Women’s Teams, and Mixed doubles. This is as per my understanding - Experts kindly correct me if I'm wrong...

[sameerph]

^^^ Correct. Mens doubles and womens doubles are only 1 match out of the 5 matches in team events.

Our only unlikely hope I think is womens team event- Manika, Sreeja and Ayhika and Suthirtha Mukherjee have all shown that on their day can pull off big upsets. Still we would be underdogs in mostly all the matches and will have to pull off 2-3 upsets.

[Anirban]

^^^ Correct. Mens doubles and womens doubles are only 1 match out of the 5 matches in team events.

Our only unlikely hope I think is womens team event- Manika, Sreeja and Ayhika and Suthirtha Mukherjee have all shown that on their day can pull off big upsets. Still we would be underdogs in mostly all the matches and will have to pull off 2-3 upsets.

Sir, in Women's Team Event also, a max. of 3 players are allowed per Country. I presume in that case it will be difficult to include both the Mukherjees in the Team (Considering only 1 Doubles match) as none of them seem to be better than Sreeja/Manika in Singles... I think there is a provision of Reserve Player (4th Player) but not too sure if & how we can use that to our favour (As she comes into the picture only in case of "Injury or Illness")!

[sameerph]

Yes, I had read that. I think in that case Mukherjees need to be played as they would mostly have better chance to win their match as against Sreeja/Manika win their singles matches- Mukherjees are ranked 14th in doubles with 2 different country pairs ranked ahead of them and 4 Chinese pairs. So, there would be only 5-6 pairs who would be ranked ahead of them. Ayhika Mukherjee pulled off an upset against world #2 in recent world team championships.

[Sin Hombre]

This was likely what we would have done previously but it gets harder with Sreeja in the top-40 now.