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New Delhi: A nine-member Indian team, led by national champions Achanta Sharath Kamal and Madhurika Patkar, will participate in the Asian Championships to be held at Wuxi in China, beginning on Sunday.<\/p>\nNew Delhi: A nine-member Indian team, led by national champions Achanta Sharath Kamal and Madhurika Patkar, will participate in the Asian Championships to be held at Wuxi in China, beginning on Sunday.<\/p>\n
The other team members are Soumyajit Ghosh, G. Sathiyan, Harmeet Desai, Sanil Shetty, Manika Batra, Suthirtha Mukherjee and Mouma Das.<\/p>\n
The team members are accompanied by foreign expert Massimo Costantini and coach Arup Basak with a support staff in physiotherapist Kishore Dey.<\/p>\n
For the first time in recent years, the Sports Ministry has also sanctioned a sparring partner in defensive player Lalrin Puia, who will stay during the entire duration of the championships between April 9 and 16.<\/p>\n
Except for Sarath Kamal and Ghosh, all other players had participated in the Thailand Open before arriving in Shanghai on April 4 for a short camp where they had an intense training session, according to foreign expert Massimo.<\/p>\n
“The team members are in good shape and they are bolstered by the arrival of both Sharath and Ghosh,” said Massimo before leaving for Wuxi.<\/p>\n
For the prestigious championships, International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) has nominated Ganeshan Neelakana Iyer, a familiar face on the Indian circuit, as the competition manager with Atul Dubey from Rajasthan as one of his deputy referees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
New Delhi: A nine-member Indian team, led by national champions Achanta Sharath Kamal and Madhurika Patkar, will participate in the Asian Championships to be held at Wuxi in China, beginning on Sunday.<\/p>\n
The other team members are Soumyajit Ghosh, G. Sathiyan, Harmeet Desai, Sanil Shetty, Manika Batra, Suthirtha Mukherjee and Mouma Das.<\/p>\n
The team members are accompanied by foreign expert Massimo Costantini and coach Arup Basak with a support staff in physiotherapist Kishore Dey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33063,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[97],"tags":[484,9614,7312,5251,466,7315,4362,406,6389,403,7548,260],"class_list":["post-34213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-table-tennis-table-tennis","tag-achanta-sharath-kamal","tag-asian-championships","tag-g-sathiyan","tag-harmeet-desai","tag-indian-sports-news","tag-madhurika-patkar","tag-manika-batra","tag-mouma-das","tag-sanil-shetty","tag-soumyajit-ghosh","tag-suthirtha-mukherjee","tag-table-tennis"],"yoast_head":"\n