The former beat defending champion Subhajit Saha to win the men's singles title while defending champion Mouma Das beat top seed Poulomi Ghatak to retain her crown.
Psychologists have become a more established presence on the tennis tour, with top players like Andy Murray and Petra Kvitova espousing the benefits.
This was due to the fact that they had already won the Khel Ratna, the country's highest sporting honour.
The fifth seeded Indian ace will take on top seed Gao Ning of Singapore.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Their boys and girls' teams proved too good for Korea in the finals.
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Murray was made to fight for two hours and 52 minute
Their men's and women's teams won the gold medal in the National Games table tennis team event.
There was no rain break, no twilight five-set drama and no Wimbledon trophy on offer on Friday but none of that bothered ageless Swiss maestro Roger Federer. The only thing that mattered to the 20-time Grand Slam champion was that, unlike in his last grasscourt duel with Rafael Nadal 11 years ago, he had won the "crazy last game" which sealed his passage into a 12th Wimbledon final.
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.
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.
The Chennai paddler feels that it's about time that he changes colour of the medal to gold during the upcoming edition in Gold Coast.
They respectively claimed the sub-junior boys and girls' titles in the 66th Nat. Sub-Junior and Inter-state Table Tennis championships.
Also seen in action for India will be the shuttlers, boxers, the women's hockey team and the table tennis players among others.
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.
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.
There is nothing of the level of Yes Minister, House Of Cards, Madam Secretary or Veep but there are at least 10 Hindi series and an OTT-released film or two, to whet the viewer's appetite for power-mongering, corruption and intrigue.
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.
China chose a sports contest to announce the change of the name of Taiwan, a self-governed cash-rich island.
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