New Delhi, April 7: A 10-member Indian team, led by national
champions A. Sharath Kamal and Madhurika Patkar, will participate in the Asian
Championships to be held at Wuxi (China), beginning this Sunday.
The other team members include Soumyajit Ghosh, G. Sathiyan,
Harmeet Desai, Sanil Shetty, Manika Batra, Suthirtha Mukherjee, Pooja
Sahasrabuddhe and Mouma Das. The team members are accompanied by foreign expert
Massimo Costantini and coach Arup Basak with a support staff in physiotherapist
Kishore Dey.
For the first time in recent years, the sports ministry has
also sanctioned a sparring partner in defensive player Lalrin Puia who will
stay the entire duration of the championships between April 9 and 16.
The team members, who are currently training at Shanghai ’s National Training Centre, will leave for the
championships venue at Wuxi ,
a three-hour drive from Chinese business capital, later today.
Except for Sarath Kamal and Ghosh, all other players had
participated in the Thailand Open before arriving at Shanghai on April 4 for a short camp where
they had an intense training session, according to foreign expert Massimo. “The
team members are in good shape and they are bolstered by the arrival of both
Sharath and Ghosh,” said Massimo before leaving for Wuxi .
For the prestigious championships, ITTF has nominated
Ganeshan Neelakana Iyer, a familiar face on the Indian circuit, as the
competition manager with Atul Dubey from Rajasthan as one of his deputy
referees.
Two Indian umpires, K. Mahendra Singh (Manipur) and Sushanta
Mazumdar (West Bengal ), also have been
nominated to officiate at the championships as technical officials.
Besides, C.L. Thade (Maharashtra) and Attoor Satheese (Kerala) will be at Wuxi India
TTFI release
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