Table Tennis

A. Radhika Suresh is a table tennis player from Kerala, India. She is an Olympian and former national champion.

Abhishek Yadav (born 9 July 1996) is an Indian Table Tennis player. He trains at the Petroleum Sports Promotion Board Academy in Ajmer, Rajasthan, Delhi. Abhishek has been sponsored by Stag International since 2005.

Ankita Das (Bengali: অঙ্কিতা দাস; born 17 July 1993) is an Indian table tennis player from Siliguri, West Bengal. She participated in the World Championship and reached the quarter-finals. She represented India at the 2012 London Summer Olympics in Women's singles event.

Amalraj Anthony Arputharaj (born 24 January 1986) is a professional table tennis player from Tamil Nadu India. He won the silver medal at 2014 Commonwealth Games in doubles with Sharath Kamal. Arputharaj won the National Table Tennis Championship in January 2012, beating the Indian legend, Sharath Kamal in the finals.

Archana Kamath (born 17 June 2000) is an Indian former table tennis player. She won the gold medal at the 2023 National Games of India in women's singles. She was a part of Indian table tennis contingent at the 2024 Summer Olympics.

Athar-Ali Fyzee (28 August 1883 – 3 November 1963) was an Indian international tennis and table tennis player. He competed in the men's singles tennis tournament at the 1924 Summer Olympics. In a tennis career lasting 18 seasons from 1909 to 1934, he reached 21 finals and won 14 singles titles.

Ayhika Mukherjee (born 10 June 1997) is an Indian table tennis player from West Bengal. She was part of the Indian team for the 2018 Asian Games and 2022 Asian Games. She, along with Sutirtha Mukherjee, won the bronze medal for India in women's doubles table tennis in the Asian Games.

Bhavina Hasmukhbhai Patel (born 6 November 1986), also known as Bhavinaben Hasmukhbhai Patel, is an Indian parathlete and table tennis player from Mehsana, Gujarat. She won a silver medal in Class 4 Table tennis at the 2020 Summer Paralympics in Tokyo.

Chetan Baboor (born 22 April 1974) is an Indian international table tennis champion and winner of the Arjuna Award for 1997 - an award recognizing outstanding achievement in sports in India. He belongs to the Babbur Kamme community of Holenarasipura, Karnataka. Chetan has won four national titles and double golds in Commonwealth Championships.

Dayaram Gangaram Hathiramani was an Indian merchant, philanthropist and table tennis player and coach. He later naturalized as a Ghanaian. He was very instrumental in establishing the game of table tennis in Ghana.

Diya Chitale (born 2 April 2003) is an Indian table tennis player from Maharashtra, India. She won her maiden National championship in 2025. She plays for Dabang Delhi in the Ultimate Table Tennis, a league championship.

Gool Nasikwala is a former table tennis player from India. She was the first Indian woman to win medals in international table tennis competitions in 1952.

Harmeet Desai (born 19 July 1993) is an Indian table tennis player. He is from Surat. In 2018 Commonwealth Games held at Gold Coast, Australia, He won gold in men's team event with Sharath Kamal, Anthony Amalraj, Sathiyan Gnanasekaran & Sanil Shetty and bronze in Men's doubles event with Sanil Shetty.

Indu Puri (born 14 September 1953) is a former Indian international female Table tennis sportsperson in the 1970s and 1980s. She won the National women's singles title a record eight times. Her highest rankings have been: international 63 (1985), Asian 8, and Commonwealth (2), she was the first Indian woman to beat a world champion, beating Pak Yung-Sun of North Korea in the 1978 Asian Table Tennis Championships at Kuala Lumpur.

Kamlesh Navichandra Mehta (born 1 May 1960) is an Indian retired table tennis player. In March 2017, the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports, Government of India, appointed him as the national observer for table tennis.

Madhurika Patkar is an Indian table-tennis player. She beat serial winner Poulomi Ghatak in Manesar to win the 78th 11Even Sports Senior National and Inter-State Table Tennis Championship in 2016. In February 2017 Patkar won the Indian national Table Tennis championship in the Women's Singles.

Mamta Prabhu (Marathi:ममता प्रभू, born 1 March 1983) is a table tennis player from Maharashtra, India. She is an integral part of the Indian women Table Tennis team. As of July 2011, she is ranked 356rd in the overall International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) women rankings.

Manav Thakkar is an Indian table tennis player, who is one of the highest ranked Indian men's singles players in the sport, his highest ranking was at 33 in the world as of 2 February 2026. He was part of the Indian team at the 2018 Asian Games, where he won a bronze medal in the men's team event. Thakkar was born in Rajkot, Gujarat.

Manika Batra (born 15 June 1995) is an Indian table tennis player. She is a triple gold medalist at the South Asian Games, a double gold medalist at the Commonwealth Games, and a bronze medalist at the Asian Games, Asian Championships, and Asian Cup. She is India's number two in women and her world rank is 27 as of Nov 2024.

Mantu Ghosh (born 1973/1974) is an Indian former table tennis player from West Bengal. As a two-time national champion, Ghosh is now the coach of India's table tennis women's team and a sports administrator after previously working in different capacities at the state and the national level. She was featured in the Limca Book of Records for becoming India's youngest national table tennis champion in 1990 at age 16.

Meena Parande (12 December 1930 – 1 April 2022) was an Indian table tennis player who represented her country internationally and was ranked number 3 in Asia in the 1950s. Meena Parande was born on 12 December 1930. Her father was a barrister and sports enthusiast D. K. Parande.

Mir Khasim Ali, born in Hyderabad, was India's men's singles champion in table tennis from 1968 to 1969. He was awarded the Arjuna Award.

Monalisa Mehta (née Baruah) is an Indian table tennis player from Assam. She received an Arjuna Award in 1987. She is married to Kamlesh Mehta, eight-time national table tennis champion.

Mouma Das (Bengali: মৌমা দাস; born 24 February 1984) is an Indian table tennis player. Born and brought up in Kolkata, West Bengal, she has represented India in international events since the early 2000s. Das has won multiple medals at the Commonwealth Games including a gold in the Women's Team Competition in 2018.

Naina Jaiswal (born on 22 March 2000) is an Indian table tennis player who won multiple titles in both national and international championships. She is also a "Child Prodigy" who started pursuing PhD at the age of 17.

Nandita Saha is an Indian table-tennis player. She was a part of Indian trio who defeated Canada in Common wealth 2006 at Melbourne and won Bronze medal for India. She won Bronze Medal in Women's singles in Senior National TT Championship in 2010.

Neha Aggarwal Sharma (born 11 January 1990) is an Indian table tennis player who participated in the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, the only woman from India to feature in that discipline. Aggarwal earned her position at the Olympics by defeating Poulomi Ghatak and Mouma Das, who had been favored to win. The Delhi girl, who did her schooling from Delhi Public School, R. K. Puram and her college from St. Stephen's College, Delhi, was the winner of Junior National Table Tennis Championship held at Ahmedabad and Kolkata.

Niyati Roy-Shah (born 30 September 1965) is an Indian table tennis player. She competed at the 1988 Summer Olympics and the 1992 Summer Olympics.

Pooja Sahasrabudhe is an Indian table tennis player from Thane, Maharashtra. She comes from a humble middle-class background, and was born and brought up in Thane, Maharashtra. She took to Table tennis at the age of 9 in the year 2000 and showed keen interest and great talent in the sport.

Poulomi Ghatak (Bengali: পৌলমী ঘটক; born 3 January 1983) is a table tennis player from West Bengal, India. She won three junior national championships (1996, 1998 and 1999) as well as seven senior national championships between 1998 and 2016. In 1998 she won both the senior national and junior national championships.

Raman Subramanyan (born 23 June 1969) is an Indian table tennis player. He competed in the men's doubles event at the 2000 Summer Olympics.

Reeth Rishya Tennison (born 27 April 1995) is an Indian table tennis player. As of 2021, she is the second top-ranked female table tennis player in India and ranked 118th in the world as of March 2022. She represented India in the 2022 Commonwealth Games Birmingham.

Sanil Shankar Shetty is an Indian table-tennis player. In 2018 Commonwealth Games held at Gold Coast, Australia, He won gold in men's team event with Sharath Kamal, Anthony Amalraj, Sathiyan Gnanasekaran and Harmeet Desai & bronze in Men's doubles event with Harmeet Desai.

Sathiyan Gnanasekaran (born 8 January 1993) is an Indian table tennis player, who is one of the highest ranked Indian men's singles players in the sport, currently ranked at 51 in the world as of 2 February 2026. He was a member of the Indian team that won back to back gold medals in the 2018 and 2022 Commonwealth Games. In May 2019, Sathiyan attained his career best World ranking of 24 and became the first Indian paddler ever to break into the World Top-25 ITTF rankings.

Shamini Kumaresan (Tamil: ஷாமினி குமரேசன்; born 1988) is a professional table tennis player from Tamil Nadu, India. She did her schooling from Atomic Energy Central School Kalpakkam and Adarsh Vidyalaya, Chennai. She led the women's team which won the silver in the 19th Commonwealth table tennis championship held at Delhi in 2010.

Achanta Sharath Kamal (born 12 July 1982) is an Indian former table tennis player. He is a ten time national champion. In 2019, he was awarded the Padma Shri, India's fourth highest civilian award.

Sonalben Manubhai Patel is an international Para table tennis player and Asian medalist from Viramgam, Gujarat, India.

Soumyajit Ghosh (Bengali: সৌম্যজিৎ ঘোষ; born 10 May 1993) is an Indian table tennis player from Siliguri, West Bengal. He was the youngest Indian player to qualify for the 2012 Summer Olympics. He also became the youngest national champion at the age of 19, when he defeated Sharath Kamal in the 74th National Table Tennis Championships.

Subhajit Saha is a professional table tennis player from West Bengal, India. He won the men's doubles gold at the 19th Commonwealth Games' table tennis championship held at New Delhi in 2010.

Sutirtha Mukherjee (born 10 October 1995) is an Indian table tennis player from West Bengal. She has won national table tennis championship and also was a part of gold medal winning Indian women's team at the 2018 Commonwealth Games. Mukherjee also represented India at the 2020 Summer Olympics and 2022 Asian Games.

Venugopal Chandrasekhar (18 June 1957 – 12 May 2021) was an Indian national table tennis champion and Arjuna Award winner. Chandrasekhar died on 12 May 2021, from COVID-19 complications amid the COVID-19 pandemic in India. He was 63.

Yashaswini Ghorpade (born 23 October 2004) is an Indian table tennis player from Karnataka, India. She won her maiden National championship at Indore on 21 March 2026. She represents the Petroleum Sports Promotion Board in domestic tournaments.

A Sports Authority of India Centre for Para Sports under its National Centre of Excellence (NCOE) Scheme at the SAI Netaji Subhas Western Centre (Regional Centre) in Gandhinagar, Gujarat. A Ministry reply in the Rajya Sabha (24 March 2022) says the centre is operational in athletics, swimming, powerlifting and table tennis, and a reply of 6 February 2025 says the centre is actively training para athletes in athletics, swimming and other listed disciplines (the available text of that reply is cut off after swimming). An older SAI circular described a Centre of Excellence (Para) scheme at this centre with a strength of 65 para athletes (40 boys and 25 girls) in athletics, badminton, powerlifting, swimming and table tennis; badminton is not in the Ministry's 2022 list, so check which disciplines are current. A 2025 Press Information Bureau release says para athletes train at SAI centres in Sonepat and Gandhinagar with coaches, nutritionists, diet and recovery support.

On 8 September 2026 the Maharashtra Cabinet approved a revised policy for the 5 per cent parallel reservation for meritorious sportspersons in direct recruitment in state government and semi-government bodies. Sports included in at least three consecutive Summer Olympic Games after 2005 qualify, and Kabaddi, Kho-Kho, Chess, Mallakhamb and Cricket have been added as regional sports. Under the revised policy, sports certificates must be verified through a digital Sports E-Certificate system within three months, and earlier government resolutions on the quota were rescinded.

Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Limited (ONGC), a Government of India enterprise, gives monthly scholarships to economically weaker young sportspersons who have the potential to excel in sport, in games including badminton, boxing, wrestling, kabaddi, chess, athletics and para sports. This is a public-sector company scheme, not a government department scheme. A scholarship is awarded for one year and can be extended up to two years based on annual performance. The number of scholarships is fixed game by game; for the 2025-26 round, for example, badminton had 6 (3 for men and 3 for women) and kabaddi had 20.

NHPC Limited, a Government of India enterprise, offers a sports scholarship to promising young players aged 14 to 19 years (14 to 24 years for para sports) in 16 games, to encourage their talent and build a talent pool during their formative years of education. This is a public-sector company scheme, not a government department scheme. Up to 32 scholarships are provided, two in each game, in two categories, Elite Scholar and Scholar, for a period of three years.

Indian Oil Corporation Limited (IOCL), a Government of India enterprise, offers 100 para-sports scholarships (50 for men, 50 for women) in two categories, Para Scholar and Elite Para Scholar, across 16 para games including badminton. This is a public-sector company scheme, not a government department scheme. A scholarship runs for a maximum of three years, with a performance review after each year.

Run by the Petroleum Sports Promotion Board (PSPB), a public-sector sports board, not by a government department. Residential table tennis academy run by the Petroleum Sports Promotion Board since 1995, first at Ajmer in Rajasthan in collaboration with the Sports Authority of India and the Table Tennis Federation of India (TTFI). The boys' academy is now at Sonipat, Haryana, and PSPB has run a full sponsorship programme for girls with Delhi Public School, Sonipat and TTFI since the 2019-20 session. Players are chosen through selection trials. This is a public-sector sports board programme, not a government department scheme.

Supports the construction of indoor halls that can accommodate multiple sports, specifically in underserved areas under the Prime Minister's Development Package.

Run by the All India Public Sector Sports Promotion Board (AIPSSPB), not by a government department. Scholarship scheme of the All India Public Sector Sports Promotion Board to encourage young, talented sportspersons in line with the objectives of the National Sports Policy. The total number of awardees is capped at 20, and table tennis is one of the games covered. Aspirants are identified by AIPSSPB's national game coordinators on their past and current performance, and a select committee of the board's General Secretary, the game coordinator and an outside expert of national or international level recommends names to the President of AIPSSPB for approval. This is a public-sector sports board scheme, not a government department scheme.