Olympian Achanta Sharath Kamal is hoping for a good showing in the 19th Asian Table Tennis Championships that get underway in Lucknow on Monday to boost his ranking.
Except for shooting, a major Olympic sport, most of the top stars in other disciplines will give the National Games a miss.
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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.
The veteran defeated Prithviraj in the National Table Tennis Championship.
The team, comprising Madhurika Patkar, Sushmita Roy, Mousumi Paul and Sangeetha Seshadri beat the United States 3-2 to finish in the top 10.
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.
Chinese paddlers won the boys and girls' singles crowns and clinched the top spot in girls' doubles.
Both the girls teams booked their berth in the semi-finals of the World Junior Circuit Table Tennis championship.
They respectively claimed the sub-junior boys and girls' titles in the 66th Nat. Sub-Junior and Inter-state Table Tennis championships.
India's 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 table tennis tournament in Zagreb, Croatia.
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.
Indian women thrashed Spain 3-0 to win a promotion to the first division of the next edition of World Team Table Tennis championship.
Nandita Saha and Sourav Chakraborty went down tamely in the quarter-finals.
Chinese Taipei pulled of an upset, beating China in the boys' semi-finals in the Asian Jr TT championships.
All four who made the main draw of the World TT meet were beaten by higher-ranked opponents.
Nandita Saha and Visakha Vijay lost in straight games
'As of now, there's no update from the Railways. The scheduled time (of departure) here is 4am but we doubt the train will start from Chennai tonight'
Italy's Jannik Sinner lost both his previous Wimbledon duels with Novak Djokovic but turned the tables in emphatic fashion as his power and precision proved too much for the seven-time champion who, at 38, looked every bit his age in a humbling 6-3, 6-3, 6-4 loss.
'If it was up to me, Dubai would always host a one off match like this WTC game. Neutral venue, fabulous stadium, guaranteed weather, excellent training facilities and a travel hub!' KP tweeted.
Shami was there to receive the honours. He took 24 wickets in seven World Cup games last year.
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Tennis ace Rohan Bopanna, hockey great P R Sreejesh and table tennis legend Sharath Kamal, are gearing up for one last hurrah at the Asian Games, starting in Hangzhou, from September 23.
Indian women's team eased past Uzbekistan while the men endured successive defeats with the loss to South Korea in the World Table Tennis Team Championships in Busan on Monday.
The reigning world champion duo of Chen Meng and Wang Yidi gasped in surprise seeing the backhand return of Ayhika Mukherjee, who, in part, engineered India's biggest triumph of the Asian Games thus far.
Neeraj Chopra's preparatory camp in Switzerland gets ministry approval
Paralympic star Kumar Nitesh cites BAI apathy, wants badminton to be placed under PCI as para shuttlers needed to be treated on par with their able-bodied counterparts.
You don't prep for 2028 but for 2040, or even 2044. Sustained sporting excellence is based on mass support, grassroots development, and funding - and it is this trifecta India needs to work on, systematically, asserts Prem Panicker.
Batra created history in Gold Coast, single-handedly taking India to a maiden team gold before winning a singles gold, another first.
India celebrated a rare moment of success in international table tennis as Soumyajit Ghosh clinched the Under-21 men's title while Manika Batra bagged the Under-21 women's trophy at the GAC Group 2013 ITTF World Tour Brazil Open at Santos.
Shreya Ghosh upset top-seeded Li Chao of China in the ITTF Junior Circuit championship in China.
P Anitha, Madhavan Nambiar, Sudha Hari Narayan Singh, Virender Singh, and KY Venkatesh have also been awarded the prestigious award.
In para taekwondo, India will be solely represented by 21-year-old Aruna Tanwar. The Haryana-based athlete, who will participate in the women's under 49kg K44 category, will be in action on September 2 from the round-of-16 rounds.
India have sent an 84-strong contingent of para-athletes, the largest ever in the country's history -- a heady mix of youth and experience, for the Paralympic Games, starting in Paris on Wednesday.
A summary of Indian athletes' showing at the Paralympics in Paris on Wednesday.
Manu Bhaker marched into the final of women's 10m air pistol event at the Olympics after finishing third in qualifications on Saturday.
