Birmingham Commonwealth Games gold medalist Sharath Kamal and Manika Batra, the top-ranked Indian ladies avid gamers, will spearhead an 11-member Indian squad on the 2023 World Table Tennis Championships in Durban from May 20 to twenty-eight.
The workforce accommodates 5 males and 6 ladies.
The 59th version of the Worlds shall be confined simplest to the workforce championships and the primary in Africa since 1939 when Egypt hosted the development.
The variety committee of Table Tennis Federation of India (TTFI) thought to be the most recent variety coverage, revel in and the application price of the people in vital occasions such because the Worlds sooner than recommending the contributors to constitute the rustic.
The males’s workforce will encompass the top-ranked Indian on the earth, G. Sathiyan, ranked No. 50, A.Sharath Kamal (No. 55), Manush Shah, Harmeet Desai and Manav Thakkar, whilst Manika Batra (No. 40), Sreeja Akula, Sutirtha Mukherjee, Reeth Rishya, Archana Kamath and Diya Chitale will shape the ladies’s squad.
Sathiyan, Sharath, Manush, and Harmeet will compete within the males’s singles and the doubles. Sathiyan will pair up with Sharath, whilst Manush and Harmeet will shape the second one pair.
Manika, Sreeja Akula, Sutirtha Mukherjee and Reeth Rishya will compete within the singles. However, Manika will workforce up with Archana Kamath, whilst Sreeja will mix with Diya Chitale within the ladies’s doubles.
Sathiyan and Manika shall be India’s first pair within the combined doubles, and the second one shall be Manav and Archana.
Subhajit Saha and Mamata Prabhu will accompany the groups as males’s and ladies’s coaches, respectively.
