Live streaming, Asian Table Tennis Championships 2023: Paris 2024 Olympic spots on offer - where to watch
The Paris Olympics spots are available for the two team events and in mixed doubles. India have named a 10-member TT team for Pyeongchang. Watch live!
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Veteran Sharath Kamal and Manika Batra will spearhead the Indian team at the Asian Table Tennis Championships 2023 scheduled to be held in Pyeongchang, the Republic of Korea from September 3 to 10.
The 26th edition of the continental championships is also a qualification tournament for the Paris 2024 Olympics.
The winners of the two team events (men and women) and the mixed doubles will each secure a spot at Summer Games next year.
The India men’s team is seeded third at the Pyeongchang table tennis meet while the women’s team is fifth.
Additionally, the Asian Table Tennis Championships will also hold events for men’s singles, women’s singles, men’s doubles and women’s doubles. Medals will be awarded in all seven events.
India are fielding a 10-member team, five men and as many women. It includes 41-year-old Sharath Kamal and world No. 61 Harmeet Desai, the only Indian table tennis player ranked in the top 100 in men’s singles.
Manika Batra, world No. 36 in women’s singles, is currently the highest-ranked singles player from India. Sreeja Akula, at world No. 85, is the only other Indian woman in the top 100.
India’s best hope, perhaps, is in the mixed doubles. The pair of Manika Batra and Sathiyan Gnanasekaran is ranked eighth in the world.
India have won only four bronze medals since the Asian Table Tennis Championships began in 1952. Three of these came at the last edition in Doha. This included two in men’s doubles and one for the men’s team.
Asian Table Tennis Championships 2023: India entries
Men’s singles: Sharath Kamal, Harmeet Desai, Sathiyan Gnanasekaran, Manush Utpalbhai Shah, Manav Thakkar
Women’s singles: Sreeja Akula, Manika Batra, Diya Chitale, Ayhika Mukherjee, Sutirtha Mukherjee
Men’s doubles: Sharath Kamal and Sathiyan Gnanasekaran, Manush Utpalbhai Shah and Manav Thakkar (8)
Women’s doubles: Sreeja Akula and Diya Chitale, Ayhika Mukherjee and Sutirtha Mukherjee (8)
Mixed doubles: Sreeja Akula and Harmeet Desai, Manika Batra and Sathiyan Gnanasekaran (5)
Where to watch Asian Table Tennis Championships 2023 live in India
Live streaming of the Asian Table Tennis Championships 2023 will be available on the Korea Table Tennis Association’s YouTube channel. There will be no live telecast of the event on any TV channel in India.