Live streaming, Ultimate Table Tennis 2023: League back after four years - full squads and schedule
Star players like Sharath Kamal, G Sathiyan and Manika Batra will be in action at UTT Season 4. Watch live!
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The Ultimate Table Tennis 2023, featuring some of the top international players, will start at Pune’s Balewadi Sports Complex on Thursday.
The Ultimate Table Tennis (UTT), founded in 2017, was last played in 2019. The table tennis league has been cancelled multiple times due to COVID-19 and is making a comeback after four years.
UTT Season 4 will see six teams - Bengaluru Smashers, Chennai Lions, Dabang Delhi TTC, Goa Challengers, Puneri Paltan Table Tennis and U Mumba TT - compete for the top prize.
Each UTT squad comprises six players - four Indians and two foreign players.
Chennai Lions, led by Commonwealth Games champion Sharath Kamal, will be the defending champions. Puneri Paltan have world No. 22 Omar Assar of Egypt in their ranks
Debutants Bengaluru Smashers have India’s No. 1 women’s singles player Manika Batra in their team. U Mumba is spearheaded by world No. 18 Aruna Quadri of Nigeria.
Dabang Delhi, the 2018 champions, have India’s top-ranked men’s singles player Sathiyan Gnanasekaran and national champion Sreeja Akula in their ranks. Goa Challengers have Asian Games and Commonwealth Games medallist Anthony Amalraj and Thailand’s world No. 40 Suthasini Sawettabut in their setup.
A total of 18 ties will be played in UTT Season 4 in a single-legged round-robin league format. Live streaming and telecast will be available in India.
Each team will play five ties in the league stage. The top four teams will qualify for the semi-finals on July 28 and 29. The UTT final will be played on July 30.
Where to watch Ultimate Table Tennis 2023 live
The Ultimate Table Tennis 2023 will be telecast live on Sports 18 TV channel in India. Live streaming of UTT 2023 will be available on the Jio Cinema.
Ultimate Table Tennis 2023 teams and squads
- Bengaluru Smashers: Manika Batra, Sanil Shetty, Poymantee Baisya, Ankur Bhattacharjee, Kirill Gerassimenko (Kazakhstan) and Natalia Bajor (Poland)
- Chennai Lions: Sharath Kamal, Sutirtha Mukherjee, Payas Jain, Prapti Sen, Yangzi Liu (Australia) and Benedikt Duda (Germany)
- Dabang Delhi TTC: Sathiyan G, Sreeja Akula, Ayhika Mukherjee, Anirban Ghosh, Jon Persson (Sweden) and Barbora Balazova (Slovakia)
- Goa Challengers: Harmeet Desai, T Reeth Rishya, Kwittwika Sinha Roy, Anthony Amalraj, Suthasini Sawettabut (Thailand) and Alvaro Robles (Spain)
- Puneri Paltan Table Tennis: Manush Shah, Archana Kamath, Snehit SFR, Anusha Kutumbale, Omar Assar (Egypt) and Hana Matelova (Czech Republic)
- U Mumba TT: Manav Thakkar, Diya Chitale, Mouma Das, Sudhanshu Grover, Lily Zhang (USA) and Aruna Quadri (Nigeria)
Ultimate Table Tennis 2023 schedule and fixtures
All matches start at 7:30 PM Indian Standard Time (IST)
- July 13, Thursday: Puneri Paltan vs Chennai Lions
- July 14, Friday: U Mumba vs Bengaluru Smashers
- July 15, Saturday: Dabang Delhi vs Goa Challengers
- July 16, Sunday: Chennai Lions vs U Mumba
- July 17, Monday: Puneri Paltan vs Goa Challengers
- July 18, Tuesday: Bengaluru Smashers vs Dabang Delhi
- July 19, Wednesday: Goa Challengers vs U Mumba
- July 20, Thursday: Chennai Lions vs Bengaluru Smashers
- July 21, Friday: Dabang Delhi vs Puneri Paltan
- July 22, Saturday: Goa Challengers vs Chennai Lions
- July 23, Sunday: Puneri Paltan vs Bengaluru Smashers
- July 24, Monday: Dabang Delhi vs U Mumba
- July 25, Tuesday: Bengaluru Smashers vs Goa Challengers
- July 26, Wednesday: Chennai Smashers vs Dabang Delhi
- July 27, Thursday: U Mumba vs Puneri Paltan
- July 28, Friday: Semi-final 1
- July 29, Saturday: Semi-final 2
- July 30, Sunday: Final