Have a look at the WTT Star Contender Goa 2023 table tennis entry list, players and tickets
The event, which is slated to run from February 27 to March 5, would be the first World Table Tennis (WTT) competition ever to be held in India.
The competition will be held in Panaji at the Dr. Shyama Prasad Mukherjee Indoor Stadium on the Goa University campus.
WTT Star Contender Goa 2023 tickets price and ticket online booking website
Tickets can be brought from BookMyShow and start at Rs.49.
Elite players at WTT Star Contender Goa 2023
The current men’s and women’s singles Olympic table tennis champions from China, Ma Long and Chen Meng, will be among the elite players playing at the WTT Star Contender Goa 2023.
Two-time Olympic champion Ma Long, 34, is largely recognised as the greatest table tennis player to ever play the sport. In the men’s singles, Ma Long’s countryman Fan Zhendong, the reigning world champion and No. 1 in the world, will also be competing as his opponent.
Top Indian players to eye for at WTT Star Contender Goa 2023
The Indian challenge will be led by Sathiyan Gnanasekaran and Sharath Kamal. G Sathiyan, who competed for India’s gold-medal-winning men’s team, took home the bronze medal in the men’s singles event at the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games. In the men’s doubles competition at CWG 2022, he also took home a silver medal.
Sharath Kamal, a veteran, is the current CWG men’s singles champion. At Birmingham 2022, the world No. 47 also took home gold in the mixed doubles and men’s team events.
Top players at the WTT Star Contender Goa
In men’s
The men’s singles competition at the WTT Star Contender Goa 2023 will feature several other elite players, including World No. 4 Tomakazu Harimoto of Japan, World No. 6 Truls Moregard of Sweden, World No. 8 Lin Yun-Ju from Chinese Taipei, World No. 9 Darko Jorgic from Slovenia.
In women’sย
In the women’s division, Chen Meng, the gold medalist from Tokyo 2020, will be joined by her countrywoman Sun Yingsha, the No. 1 player in the world right now, and Hina Hayata of Japan, who is currently rated fifth in the world.
Other top-10 players in action include World No. 8 Kasumi Ishikawa of Japan, World No. 9 Doo Hoi Kem of Hong Kong, and World No. 10 Ying Han of Germany.
The best chance for India in the women’s singles is the world No. 34 Manika Batra.
Sreeja Akula, the current national women’s singles and doubles champion of India, will compete alongside other Indian table tennis players in the qualifiers, including Reeth Teenison, Diya Chitale, Swastika Ghosh, Harmeet Desai, and Sanil Shetty, among many others.
Among the other top athletes from around the world to keep an eye on at the Goa meet are Yukiya Uda, Lee San-Su, who won bronze at the Asian Games in 2018, Yukiya Uda, and Liam Pitchford, who won silver at the CWG in 2022.
Participants in the women’s singles draw include Jeon Jihee, Liu Weishan, Shin Yubin, and Miu Hirano, who won silver in the women’s team event at the Tokyo Olympics.
Warning: absolute firepower inbound ๐ฅโ๏ธ
Presenting the Top 20 players joining the #WTTStarContender Goa roster ๐
* Max. 6 World top 20 players in the Main Draw of a WTT Star Contender event as per the WTT Series Top 20 Play Down Restriction. #WTTGoa pic.twitter.com/gx42FEtt0N
— World Table Tennis (@WTTGlobal) February 7, 2023
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