Paris 2024 Olympics table tennis, India schedule: Manika Batra, Sharath Kamal spearhead six-member team
India’s Sharath Kamal and Manika Batra will headline India’s table tennis contingent at the Paris 2024 Olympics, scheduled at the South Paris Arena from July 27 to August 10.
Six Indian table tennis players will be taking part in the upcoming Summer Games in France, competing in four of the five medal events for the sport. There is no Indian participation in the mixed doubles event.
Sharath Kamal, also one of India’s flag bearers at the Paris 2024 Opening Ceremony, will be returning to the Olympic stage for the fifth time in his career. Harmeet Desai is the other Indian player in the men’s singles competition but will need to win a preliminary round match to enter the main draw.
Manika Batra, who reached the third round at Tokyo 2020 in women’s singles, will be making her third successive appearance at the Summer Games. Sreeja Akula, seeded 16th, is the other women’s singles player.
The four singles players will be joined by Manav Thakkar (men’s team) and Archana Kamath (women’s team) for the team events
India will face tough competition in the opening round of the men’s team event, having been drawn against four-time champions People’s Republic of China. The women’s team, meanwhile, has been handed an easier draw against Romania.
This will be India’s first experience with table tennis team events at the Olympics.
Table tennis has been a part of the Olympics curriculum since 1988. For a long period of time, the sport had four medal competitions - men’s singles, men’s doubles, women’s singles and women’s doubles.
At Tokyo 2020, both the doubles events were replaced by men’s team and women’s team events and a fifth medal event in mixed doubles was added to the programme.
India are yet to pick up a medal in table tennis at the Summer Olympics.
Paris 2024 Olympics: Indian table tennis squad
- Men’s singles: Sharath Kamal, Harmeet Desai
- Women’s singles: Manika Batra, Sreeja Akula
- Men’s team: Sharath Kamal, Harmeet Desai, Manav Thakkar
- Women’s team: Manika Batra, Sreeja Akula, Archana Kamath
Paris 2024 Olympics India’s table tennis schedule
Live start times, all in India Standard Time (IST)
Where to watch Paris 2024 Olympics table tennis live in India
Live streaming of the Paris 2024 Olympics table tennis matches will be available on Jio Cinema in India. Live telecast of Paris 2024 table tennis will be on Sports 18 Network TV channel in India.