China completed a clean sweep of all five titles at the World Table Tennis Championships in Yokahama on Tuesday, with world number ones Wang Hao and Zhang Yining claiming the men's and women's singles crowns. The Chinese team dominated the event -- held every two years -- for the third straight time, with all-Chinese finals in each discipline.
India dished out their best performance on Monday grabbing 42 medals, including 21 gold, to end the penultimate day with a total haul of 170 medals in the 11th South Asian Games in Dhaka.
Olympian Achanta Sharath Kamal came up with a resounding performance to overcome higher-ranked German Steger Bastian and reach the third round in the World Table Tennis Championships in Yokohama, Japan, on Thursday. World No 85 Sharath defeated Bastian, ranked 39, 4-1 in a long-drawn battle in the round of 64.
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.
Olympian Achanta Sharath Kamal's heroics went in vein as India went down to China 1-3 in the quarter-final to bow out of men's team event on the third day of the 19th Asian Table Tennis Championships in Lucknow on Wednesday.
This year, former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has been conferred Padma Vibhushan for his achievement in the field of public affairs.
Olympian Neha Aggarwal and Soumi Mondal moved into the semi-finals after thumping victories in the table tennis competition at the Commonwealth Youth Games in Pune on Wednesday. In the boys' singles, sixth seed Soumyajit Ghosh and Sathiyan Gnanasekaran also stormed into the semi-final league.
Achantha Sharath Kamal surrendered 1-4 to Austria's Chen Weixing in the second round of the men's singles at the Beijing Olympics.
The 37th All India Inter Institutional Table Tennis Championships is scheduled to kick off in New Delhi on Saturday.
Gao Ning was India's nemesis as Olympian Achanta Sharath Kamal and his compatriots went down to Singapore 1-3 and finished runners-up in the men's team event of the 18th Commonwealth Table Tennis Championship in Glasgow on Saturday. The Indian team, which put up brilliant efforts to notch seven consecutive wins and enter the final, failed to live up to expectations when it mattered most.
Olympian Achanta Sharath Kamal went down fighting to Gionis Panagiotis of Greece in a third round match as India's campaign in the World Table Tennis Championships in Yokohama, Japan, ended on Friday. World number 85 Sharath lost 12-10, 9-11, 11-13, 13-11, 8-11, 8-11.
Sathiyan, making his World Cup debut, went down 1-4 (11-7, 8-11, 5-11, 9-11, 8-11) to the German in the pre-quarters.
Top seed Achanta Sharath Kamal overcame a stiff resistance from unseeded Sanil Shetty of Air India to emerge champion in the Inter Institutional Table Tennis Championship at Ajmer on Sunday.
It was another golden day for India's shooters at the Commonwealth Games on Tuesday as Samaresh Jung claimed a fourth gold medal.
All the Indian players in contention qualified for the main draw at the Chile Open Table Tennis championships.
Olympics-related cases rose by 19, organisers said, bringing the total number of disclosed cases to 106.
Top Indian Achanta Sharath Kamal received a mauling from Dimitrij Ovtcharov in a lopsided semi-final and the German then downed Korean Seo Hyun Deok to lift the men's singles title in the ITTF Indian Open Pro Tour Table Tennis tournament, which concluded on Sunday.
A budding table tennis player suddenly died after being allegedly beaten up by his father, who was not happy with his recent performances.
Neha Aggarwal and Soumi Mondal were beaten in the semi-finals in straight games in the girls' singles of the table tennis competition of the Commonwealth Youth Games in Pune on Thursday. Neha was beaten by Isabelle Li 5-11, 6-11, 6-11, 9-11 in just 28 minutes, while Soumi Mondal was victim of another Singaporean, Kai Xin Zena Sim, losing 14-16, 10-12, 4-11, 4-11.
The ace Indian paddler got the better of Spain's Spaniard Alfredo Carneros 6-11, 12-10, 11-8, 9-11, 11-6, 11-7 at the Peking University Gymnasium in Beijing on Tuesday morning.
The National champions, both representing PSEB, won the men and women's singles titles respectively in the Inter-Institutional Table Tennis Championship.
India's leading table tennis player Sharath Kamal, who was ignored for Padma Shri, feels the existing awards application system makes the athletes beg for the honour.
Reader Bharath sent us this picture from Hyderabad.
Some of the biggest surprises so far from the Tokyo Games.
Indian men beat Scotland 3-1 in the 17th Commonwealth Table Tennis Championships.
India were ousted from the men's championship division when England beat them 3-2 in the pre-quarterfinals
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.
Indian junior paddlers won three silver and five bronze medals in the STIGA Canadian Junior Open table tennis tournament.
India's top paddler Achanta Sharath Kamal beat Segun Toriola of Nigeria 11-6, 15-13, 11-8, 11-3 in the semi-final
India pulled off a huge upset, beating Nigeria 3-2 in the semi-finals at the Commonwealth Games.
The shooters bagged three gold and one silver medal in five events that took India's tally to four gold and three silver after two days.
India's national champion beat the Brazilian to advance to the quarter-finals of the inaugural Indian Open table tennis championships.
Nikhil Kanetkar and Abhinn Shyam Gupta begin their campaign in the men's badminton tournament.
Achanta Sharath Kamal is pitted against Mohamed Boudjadja of Algeria in the first round of the men's singles while Mouma Das faces Nanthana Komwong of Thailand in the women's singles.
Indian athletes are undergoing rigorous training sessions to acclimatise themselves to the conditions in this historic city.
All eyes will be on the shooting range, with Indians in three finals.
Meet the heroes from the 2018 Commonwealth Games.
This was due to the fact that they had already won the Khel Ratna, the country's highest sporting honour.
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