Mumbai, September 12, 2014: A 10-member (5 men and 5 women) table
tennis team will be representing India at the Incheon Asian Games,
beginning September 19. The team was selected on the basis of the players’
national and international ranking, besides keeping in mind the current form of
the individual players after the Inter-Institutional championships held in New Delhi in the third
week of August.
The Table Tennis Federation of India (TTFI) had sent the
names to the Indian Olympic Association (IOA) which, in turn, had recommended
them to the Sports Ministry for clearance. Though there were speculations about
the teams’ clearance in the media, the TTFI was always sure of getting the
sports ministry nod.
The paddlers will leave for the South Korean city
on September 22 and the table tennis events at the Asian Games begin
from September 27.
TTFI secretary-general Dhanraj Choudhary said that he was
confident of getting the sports ministry’s clearance for his team. “We had projected
a clear picture about why our paddlers should compete at the Asiad. Our
paddlers had reached the semifinals at Guangzhou
and that was good enough reason for their representation. Both the SAI and
ministry officials were convinced,” said Choudhary, adding, he was thankful to
the ministry for the team’s clearance.
Men: A. Sharath Kamal, Soumyajit Ghosh, Harmeet Desai, Antony Amalraj and Sanil
Shetty.
Women: Ankita Das, Madhurika Patkar, Poulomi Ghatak, Manika
Batra and Neha Aggarwal.
Coaches: Peter Engel and Bhawani Mukherjee.
A TTFI Press release
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