In an embarrassment to India, the country has been warned of heavy penalty by the Olympic Council of Asia if it withdraws from sending teams in a few disciplines in the upcoming Asian Games, a development which led to the IOA slamming some government officials for "ruining sport".
Thakur lauded her and all others who finished on the podium, presenting them with mementos to honour their feats.
Achanta Sharath Kamal's heroics notwithstanding, the Indian men's team started their campaign on a disastrous note, losing 1-3 to Japan in a Group 'A' league match of the table tennis competition in the Asian Games.
Rohan Bopanna often gets baffled to find the love of playing Davis Cup diminishing with passage of time.
Left bed-ridden for close to 10 years after falling off a cliff, Indian discus thrower Vinod Kumar scripted an astonishing tale of resilience by clinching a bronze medal in the men's F52 event at the Tokyo Paralympics on Sunday but a protest has put his celebrations on hold for now.
Psychologists have become a more established presence on the tennis tour, with top players like Andy Murray and Petra Kvitova espousing the benefits.
Meet the heroes from the 2018 Commonwealth Games.
Achanta Sharath Kamal became the India's first paddler to reach the semi-finals of an ITTF pro-tour event, at the Brazil Open.
India lost their last league match 1-3 to Bulgaria in the world table tennis championship
The Indian men's team lost 2-3 to Singapore in the World Table Tennis Championships.
India went down 1-3 to the Czech Republic in the women's division of the World Table Tennis Championships.
Mouma Das played a stellar role in a 3-2 victory over Canada in the play-off at the Commonwealth Games
Indian men and women experienced contrasting fortunes at the World Team Table Tennis Championships as the former blanked Nigeria 3-0 but the eves went down 2-3 to Australia.
The veteran defeated Prithviraj in the National Table Tennis Championship.
The sports tournament for MPs was conducted in New Delhi.
Chetan Baboor, Mouma Das, Sharath Kamal and Montu Das scored their second wins to make the grade.
It's a big day for India today as medals will be few good ties away from the athletes at the Commonwealth Games on Sunday.
Their boys and girls' teams proved too good for Korea in the finals.
Their men's and women's teams won the gold medal in the National Games table tennis team event.
Chinese paddlers won the boys and girls' singles crowns and clinched the top spot in girls' doubles.
The Indian paddlers marched steadily in the preliminary rounds in the individual events of the SAF Games.
Both the girls teams booked their berth in the semi-finals of the World Junior Circuit Table Tennis championship.
Olympics-related cases rose by 19, organisers said, bringing the total number of disclosed cases to 106.
India beat Slovenia in the league phase in both the men's and women's section in the World Team Table Tennis Championship.
The top women's table tennis player Zhang Yining broke her tailbone during a training session in Zhengding in Hebei province.
The team, comprising Madhurika Patkar, Sushmita Roy, Mousumi Paul and Sangeetha Seshadri beat the United States 3-2 to finish in the top 10.
This was due to the fact that they had already won the Khel Ratna, the country's highest sporting honour.
They respectively claimed the sub-junior boys and girls' titles in the 66th Nat. Sub-Junior and Inter-state Table Tennis championships.
They won the boys and girls' titles respectively in the Jr Asian TT championship.
Indians impressed on the opening day of the World TT championships, with three of the five players in action winning their preliminary matches.
Some of the biggest surprises so far from the Tokyo Games.
Niu Jianfeng and Guo Yue lost 4-2 to compatriots Wang Nan and Zhang Yining in the women's doubles table tennis semi-finals.
Commonwealth and national champion Sharath Kamal turned in a smart display to defeat Boudjadja Mohamed in the first round of the men's singles table tennis competition.
Stakeholders have shown a distinct lack of seriousness in bringing a law against corruption in Indian sports, a reason why someone like tainted former pacer S Sreesanth got away despite strong evidence of spot-fixing against him in the 2013 IPL, former Delhi Police Commissioner Neeraj Kumar has said.
The 20-year-old table tennis ace, who earned an Olympic berth from the Beijing qualifier, is fine-tuning her game at the SAI Centre in Kolkata.
The duo accounted for Achanta Sharath Kamal and Poulami Ghatak respectively to lift the men's and women's table tennis singles gold medals.
