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Chennai Lions is an Indian professional table tennis franchise team based in Chennai that played in the Ultimate Table Tennis. It was established in 2019 by film director Aishwarya R. Dhanush and entrepreneur Sameer Bharat Ram. [1] [2] They are the reigning champions of the league after defeating Dabang Delhi TTC in 2019 UTT finals. [3] [4]
In July 2023, Sharath Kamal's team Chennai Lions came second in Ultimate Table Tennis season 4. [51] In August 2023, Sharath Kamal ranking dropped to world rank 106, this is the first time since 2007 that Kamal has gone out of top 100 World Rankings.
The club has four lighted tennis courts, and Vijay Amritraj played there. It held the first South India Championships in 1889, and hosted for many years after. It has hosted several International Tennis Federation tournaments and the women's national championships. The club also has a gym, swimming pool, billiards, table tennis and a cards room ...
Chennai is home to popular Table tennis players Sharath Kamal and Subramanian Raman, both gold medalists at the Commonwealth Games and winners of the Arjuna award. The Chennai Sepak Takraw League is a major attraction in Chennai for the sport of Sepak Takraw, players from Tamil Nadu participate in four teams in this league. The Tamil Nadu men's ...
Sathiyan Gnanasekaran (born 8 January 1993) is an Indian table tennis player, who is the highest ranked Indian men's singles player in the sport, currently ranked at 73 in the world as of 12 November 2024. He was a member of the Indian team that won back to back gold medals in the 2018 and 2022 Commonwealth Games.
Ultimate Table Tennis is a professional level table tennis league in India. [4] Launched in 2017, it consists of 8 teams. [5] The league is held by Table Tennis Federation of India. [6] The 2024 champions are Goa Challengers who defeated Dabang Delhi TTC in the finals. Falcons TTC won the first season with a 14–9 score against Shazé Challengers.
Venugopal Chandrasekhar (18 June 1957 – 12 May 2021 [1]) was an Indian national table tennis champion and Arjuna Award winner. [ 2 ] Chandrasekhar died on 12 May 2021, from COVID-19 complications amid the COVID-19 pandemic in India .
He is currently head coach of Indian players for Paris Olympics 2024. He first came to India to coach the Indian table tennis players in 2009. His second coaching stint with the Indian table tennis team was from 2016 to 2018 during which Indian players won a total of 8 medal, notably 3 gold medals at the Commonwealth games 2018.