Great news for Indian Table tennis fans as Achanta Sharath Kamal has been selected as wildcard for the WTT Star Contender, Doha 2024. Another interesting is Yashaswini Ghorpade, the 19 year old star has been making lot of news with her amazing performance in Youth WTT events where she won 2 of these events. Another table tennis legend who is selected is Timo Boll, who is also coming back to WTT Star Contender 2024 after a 12 months break.

The VIP event, WTT Finals 2023 is back and it will be held in Doha! The Men’s category event will be held during 3rd January 2024 - 5th January 2024. Parallel, the Women’s WTT Finals is being held in the city of Nagoya, Japan.

Ma Long, has won the fifth Men’s singles title after defeating World Rank #2 Fan Zhendong in Asian Table Tennis Championship in PyeongChang, Korea. Previously Ma Long was tied with Xu Xin of China with 4 titles each. This championship event comprised a total of 7 competitions, encompassing men’s and women’s singles, doubles, teams, and mixed doubles . Overall, China claimed all the seven titles available in the Asian Championship.

Lots of exciting action happened on the 6th day of Asian Table Tennis Championships 2023, PyeongChang, Korea. The biggest upset of the tournament is Tomokazu Harimoto has already got eliminated by Afshin Norouzi of Iran. For team India, all the members are out of the tournament. Let’s look at the next round of matches planned for 9th and 10th September 2023.

China’s Fan Zhendong is WTT Star Contender Ljubljana 2023 winner in Men’s Category after defeating China’s Wang Chuqin who has been dethroned of his world rank 1. In Women’s Category, Sun Yinghsa of China took the title.

Finally we have a new world number #1 table tennis player and that is Wang Chuqin from China. Wang Chuqin has been moving around to the top of the ranking criterion for quite some time but China’s** Fan Zhendong** has been the biggest milestone for him to overcome to get the top rankings. Last year, we shared our views about Wang Chuqin in Most interesting table tennis players article. On 4th July 2023, Wang Chuqin finally became the new world number one table tennis player.

Almost 10 days to go for WTT Contender Goa 2023 and WTT has already announced the lineups for the action packed event. For Men’s side, everyone in top 10 players are already going to participate in WTT Contender Goa except Hugo Calderano. For Indian table tennis fans, this is a must see opportunity to witness stars of table tennis in action. The event will features more than USD 2,50,000 in prize money.

2022 has been an year of amazing table tennis action with so many WTT events and millions of dollars in prizes. Lots of players have made impact in 2022 with a series of championships wins and upsets. It seems like young players are now taking over the older generation with so many promising players in the top 10 list. Below are the top ranked players in 2022 -