Indian TableTennis Players, Draws & Schedule at Paris 2024

The Challenge of Indian Table Tennis players at Paris 2024 are serious and realistic this time than never before. Indian Table Tennis has never looked in such a commanding position in the past. The results of our players in the last few years have raised expectations among TT fans
around the country.

A total of 172 players, (86 in men’s and 86 in women’s category), will compete across five medal events (two per gender and a mixed) at the Paris Summer Games. India is sending an eight-player squad for the Paris Olympics including two reserves — G. Sathiyan and Ayhika Mukherjee.
Achanta Sharath Kamal who turned 42 recently is an ageless wonder who has defied all odds to qualify for his 5th appearance at the mega quadrennial event. His performance in the world championships enabled him to get Top ranking amongst Indian players and hence he was an automatic selection for the team. The selectors have some headache in selecting the third player as Harmeet Desai, Manav Vikash Thakker & Sathiyan Gnyanasekaran all stacked within few ranking points.

In the women’s section also the Top two players were selected automatically as Manika Batra and rising star Sreeja Akula were way ahead of their peers in the TT rankings. However, the Selectors have huge headache in selecting the third player amongst Archana Kamath, Sutirtha Mukherjee, Ahyika Mukherjee and Yashaswani Ghorpade. It was Archana who made the cut & Ahyika had to be settled as a reserve player, despite her heroics at world championships where she had a great win against world no.1 Sun Yingsha, she could not maintain her rankings & form at the crucial cut off date.

It would be really fascinating to see these girls compete against the best teams in the world again at Paris 2024. If the draw favors us little bit, the girls are definitely in with a chance to be on podium. Our Men’s team is also capable of upsetting any team on their day but this year they looked little inconsistent in their performance.

TABLE TENNIS SCHEDULE FOR PARIS 2024 OLYMPICS

• JULY 27
  • 18:30 – Men’s & Women’s Singles Preliminary Rounds
  • 20:00 – Mixed Doubles Round of 16
  • 23:30 – Men’s & Women’s Singles Round of 64
• JULY 28
  • 13:30 – Men’s & Women’s Singles Round of 64
  • 19:30 – Mixed Doubles Quarterfinals
  • 23:30 – Men’s & Women’s Singles Round of 64
• JULY 29
  • 13:30 – Men’s & Women’s Singles Round of 64
  • 19:30 – Mixed Doubles Semifinals
  • 20:30 – Mixed Doubles Semifinals
  • 23:30 – Men’s & Women’s Singles Round of 32
• JULY 30
  • 13:30 – Men’s & Women’s Singles Round of 32
  • 17:00 – Mixed Doubles Bronze Medal Match
  • 18:00 – Mixed Doubles Gold Medal Match
• JULY 31
  • 13:30 – Men’s & Women’s Singles Round of 32
  • 18:30 – Men’s & Women’s Singles Round of 16
  • 23:30 – Men’s & Women’s Singles Round of 16
• AUGUST 1
  • 13:30 – Women’s Singles Quarterfinals
  • 13:30 – Men’s Singles Quarterfinals
• AUGUST 2
  • 13:30 – Women’s Singles Semifinals
  • 14:30 – Men’s Singles Semifinals
  • 17:00 – Women’s Singles Semifinals
  • 18:00 – Men’s Singles Semifinals
• AUGUST 3
  • 17:00 – Women’s Singles Bronze Medal Match
  • 18:00 – Women’s Singles Gold Medal Match
• AUGUST 4
  • 17:00 – Men’s Singles Bronze Medal Match
  • 18:00 – Men’s Singles Gold Medal Match
• AUGUST 5
  • 13:30 – Men’s & Women’s Team Round of 16
  • 18:30 – Men’s & Women’s Team Round of 16
  • 23:30 – Men’s & Women’s Team Round of 16
• AUGUST 6
  • 13:30 – Men’s & Women’s Team Round of 16
  • 18:30 – Men’s & Women’s Team Quarterfinals
  • 23:30 – Men’s & Women’s Team Quarterfinals
• AUGUST 7
  • 13:30 – Men’s & Women’s Team Quarterfinals
  • 18:30 – Men’s & Women’s Team Quarterfinals
  • 23:30 – Men’s Team Semifinals
• AUGUST 8
  • 13:30 – Men’s Team Semifinals
  • 18:30 – Women’s Team Semifinals
  • 23:30 – Women’s Team Semifinals
• AUGUST 9
  • 13:30 – Men’s Team Bronze Medal Match
  • 18:30 – Men’s Team Gold Medal Match
• AUGUST 10
  • 13:30 – Women’s Team Bronze Medal Match
  • 18:30 – Women’s Team Gold Medal Match

Author – SANJAY KUMAR VERMA (X id – @aman28verma)