World No. 12 Quadri Aruna leads the star-studded line-up for Ultimate Table Tennis Season 4

Achanta Sharath Kamal, G Sathiyan and Manika Batra will lead India’s challenge as the new season is scheduled to be held from 13-30. July at the Balewadi Sports Complex in Pune.

The fourth installment of the Ultimate Table Tennis (UTT) league will take place from 13 to 30 July at the Balewadi Sports Complex in Pune. The six-team tournament is likely to feature a host of top-class paddlers, led by world number 12 Quadri Aruna of Nigeria, who is returning to India for the third time after playing in the first two seasons of the tournament.

The 32nd German Benedikt Duda, the Egyptian Omar Assar, the Spanish Alvaro Robles, who won the men’s doubles silver at the 2019 World Championships, will also compete in the UTT season 4 organized by table tennis. Union of India.

The stage is set for some of the best in the world

Introducing 6 foreign men that you will see in season 4 of UTT.

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World No. 24 Lily Zhang of the USA, Australia’s Yangzi Liu (No. 32), Thailand’s Suthasini Sawettabut (No. 33) and Slovakia’s Barbora Balazova (No. 44) are the elite international women’s players in the draft pool.

Commonwealth Games multiple gold medalist Achanta Sharath Kamal will lead India’s challenge. Sharath Kamal holds a record 10 National Championship records and has won medals in the Asian Games as well as the Asian Championships. Top Indian in the field, Sathiyan Gnanasekaran (#51) and world number 39 Manika Batra headline the Indian line-up.

They will be joined by promising paddlers Sreeja Akula, who won back-to-back national titles, U-19 boys national champion Payas Jain, Diya Chitale, S Fidel R Snehit and Ankur Bhattacharjee.

It’s that time of the season!

6 foreign paddlers ready for the stage.

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Bengaluru Smashers, Chennai Lions, Dabang Delhi TTC, Goa Challengers, Puneri Paltan Table Tennis and U Mumba TT are the six teams participating in the fourth leg of the tournament.

The player draft will be held next month in Mumbai, where each franchise will select a team of six for the UTT-4. The coach’s draft was held earlier this month. Each team can select two foreigners, one male and one female, and four Indians from among the 40 players in the same manner. Each team also has the option to retain one paddler from the previous season.

LIST OF PLAYERS

Foreign players: men – Quadri Aruna (NGR, WR12), Kirill Gerassimenko (KAZ, WR54), Benedikt Duda (GER, WR32), Jon Persson (SWE, WR50), Alvaro Robles (ESP, WR43), Omar Assar (ONE, WR34). Ladies – Lily Zhang (USA, WR24), Suthasini Sawettabut (THA, WR33), Natalia Bajor (POL, WR54), Barbora Balazova (SVK, WR44), Hana Matelova (CZE, WR53), Yangzi Liu (AUS, WR32).

Indian Players: Men – Sathiyan Gnanasekaran, Manush Shah, Harmeet Desai, Manav Thakkar, Achanta Sharath Kamal, Sanil Shetty, Snehit SFR, Anirban Ghosh, Sudhanshu Grover, Jeet Chandra, Ronit Bhanja, Anthony Amalraj, Payas Jain, Ankur Bhatta. Ladies – Sreeja Akula, Sutirtha Mukherjee, Diya Chitale, Reeth Rishya, Ayhika Mukherjee, Manika Batra, Moumita Dutta, Anusha Kutumbale, Archana Kamath, Poymantee Baisya, Mouma Das, Takeme Sarkar, Prapti Sen, Krittwika Sinha Roy.

(the mentioned rankings are according to the ITTF’s latest update on 16.5.2023)