Four-time Olympian Elena Timina and previous German ladies’s staff head trainer Jorg Bitzigeio will headline the training line-up for the Ultimate Table Tennis (UTT) Season 4.
The franchise-based league, which is promoted by way of Niraj Bajaj and Vita Dani underneath the auspices of the Table Tennis Federation of India (TTFI), is returning after 3 years with Season 4 scheduled to be performed out from July 13 to 30 on the Balewadi Sports Complex in Pune.
Each staff might be coached by way of one global and one Indian trainer. A trainer draft is predicted to be held early subsequent month.
Timina, who used to be additionally part of the 1994 World Cup-winning Russian staff, is a well known title within the global desk tennis circuit. She used to be the trainer of Netherlands nationwide ladies’s staff between 2012 and 2017 and had additionally led the facet to 2 gold and one silver medal within the 2015 European Games. She had previous labored with Shaze Challengers and RPSG Mavericks, guiding the previous to the runners-up spot within the inaugural version of the UTT.
“It’s nice to peer one of the crucial best names within the world desk tennis circuit as a part of the training line-up. We are dedicated to rising the game within the nation thru this league and taking part in underneath a few of these masterminds is not going to simplest receive advantages the kids but in addition the skilled paddlers,” co-promoter Niraj Bajaj stated.
Bitzigeio, who had represented Germany at more than a few ranges, additionally boasts of an outstanding training CV. Besides guiding the German ladies’s staff to bronze medal on the 2010 World Team Championships, he additionally helped the United States nationwide staff to protected 47 medals within the Pan American Games as a trainer since 2017.
Francisco Santos, Slobodan Grujic, Vesna Ojstersek and Zoltan Batorfi would be the different overseas coaches to characteristic in Season 4. It used to be underneath Santos that the Portugal males’s staff gained the European Games in 2015. Grujic used to be the trainer of the Serbian males’s nationwide staff from 2009 to 2011 while Batorfi and Ojstersek have additionally labored as coaches with nationwide ladies’s groups of Hungary and Slovenia respectively.
A Muralidhara Rao, Anshul Garg, N Ravichandran, Parag Agrawal, Sachin Shetty and Somnath Ghosh are the Indian coaches.
Muralidhara Rao has coached one of the crucial nation’s best paddlers together with Achanta Sharath Kamal and Ok Shamini since their early taking part in days. Ravichandran and Shetty have contributed to a number of global medals as coaches of the senior Indian staff while Garg and Agrawal have additionally performed an important roles with the rustic’s junior nationwide groups. Ghosh is the trainer of present nationwide champion Sreeja Akula.